master manipulators : science

[+] [email protected] 146 points 6 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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[-] [email protected] 49 points 6 months ago

They rarely need to in the city, also those that weren't taught by other cats most of the time won't kill the mouse just torture it or scare.

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago

You are lucky, in my previous flat there were hoarders-alcoholics that lived on the next floor, one day they brought mice with whatever shit they decided to take. At first they were contained on their floor, but after a while they were everywhere. Cat played with them at first >_< and then got bored. After 10 or so that traps killed (in a month) I moved out.

[-] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Your experience reminded me of "Tom," the farm cat who lived in the corn silo on my great aunt's farm. He avoided/hated children but tolerated the adults who worked there. Depending on the season, he killed multiple mice a day, ate only their livers (leaving behind a trail of bodies), and used crippled mice to track down the hidden others. Tom was a true professional—and honestly, quite terrifying.

Edit: My aunt "paid" him with leftover spaghetti, ground meat, and eggs, as well as a warm spot by the oven in the winter (if he chose to stay there). He was "semi-feral"—never going near the house during the summer months.

Edit2 + Spelling,Typos,Grammar,

[-] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago

What the fuck kinda Hannibal Lecter cat...

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[-] [email protected] 41 points 6 months ago

They -can- do that yes. Whether or not they will choose to, however, is anyone’s guess.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

They will have a joyous time with it. And you might find eviscerated mice under your couch one day. But my two dumbass fur balls just thought they were awesome toys.

Never figured out quite when they stopped coming in. The only really humane way to kill em is snap traps. I probably went through a couple dozen of them before they stopped showing up.

I was against using poisoned food traps because the last thing I wanted was my cat consuming a poisoned mouse. But, since our whole neighborhood had a problem with the mice, I wouldn't be too surprised if a neighbor did it.

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[-] [email protected] 133 points 6 months ago

Oh sure, when the cat walks into a house and wants to live there, they're all "omg it's so cute" and "let's go buy it food and a bed", but when I do it, they're all "who the hell are you?" and "leave or I'm calling the cops" :(

[-] [email protected] 106 points 6 months ago

Have you tried meowing at them?

[-] [email protected] 61 points 6 months ago

don't do this. it only made things escalate in my experience

[-] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago

Marking your territory probably didn't help you either

[-] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago

Don't pick a house with a dog next time.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Have you tried UwU'ing at them?

[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

thats even worse why would you suggest that you trying to get me shot on sight?

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[-] [email protected] 104 points 6 months ago

Humans are just exceptionally weak to cute. If aliens ever show up and try to conquer us, we're going to be so screwed if they happen to be adorable.

[-] [email protected] 48 points 6 months ago

Speak for yourself, I hope the furry aliens make me their pet.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago

Well, I guess you're getting screwed anyways

[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Maybe he likes getting screwed.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

Humans... 🤦‍♂️

(Source: SMBC)

[-] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

I would love the life of a house pet as long as I can play video games instead of sleeping all the time.

We just collectively need to convince our new overlords that it’s enrichment and just let me keep it I already have it, and I’ll be totally friendly and compliant whenever you want, I can pause, it’s cool.

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago

Even if they were horrors beyond our comprehension, a whole lot of people would be still be very sexually aggressive towards them.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago

Honestly that may be what saves us. They try to manipulate us by being cute, we weird them out by being horny.

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago

There's a Philip K Dick short story about this, "The war with the Fnools"

[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

If aliens turn up and they're like "Give me snacks. And a fluffy bed." I think we'd be like "...aight."

[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Aww nibbler

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[-] [email protected] 65 points 6 months ago

I never liked cats at all and one did exactly that. Stupid fuck make me fall absolutely in love with it too.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Get another one from the shelter! They have much richer lives if they have another cat to interact with, even if they don't like each other.

Plus having two cats is getting yourself twice the cute and love for very little extra work.

Edit - doesn't this look great?

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[-] [email protected] 54 points 6 months ago

The fact that only two creature in this world that will approach another creature 10 times bigger than them just so they get adopted is pretty impressive. That's how i adopted my 4th cat, little baby dude just came out from under a car and yell at me until i pick him up.

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[-] [email protected] 53 points 6 months ago

As of about three weeks ago a stray cat figured out how to use our doggie door.

Now we have a 2nd cat.

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[-] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago

That makes it sound like the cat domesticated humanity not "The cat self domesticated itself"

[-] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

in reality it sure as fuck seems like humanity domesticated humanity, we have a lot of domesticated features like neotony (we look strikingly like chimpanzee children) and we're arguably the most ludicrously social species on earth.

the ironic thing is that cats aren't really very domesticated, they're inherently a social animal and happen to just sorta fit with how humans work.

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[-] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago

They are funny, don't really need a lot of space and training, and look pretty. Ofc I will go and by whatever.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago

Lost opportunity to say "I live here meow"

[-] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago

I keep meowing at hot guys at the bar and none have taken me home yet 😭

[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Meow at the moderately acceptably good (minus minus) looking and you may have some luck... but please don't get offended if we start pspspspsing you, it's just a reflex

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[-] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago

Did cats domesticate humans, or did Toxoplasma gondii domesticate both of us?

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago

They don't even meow to each other, just to humans. They know what they are about.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

No, they do sometimes. Some meow in greeting to each other, as seen on cat cams.

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[+] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

There's been a little baby girl coming around here, underweight, some kind of skin problem. She has always been an outside cat and belonged to my neighbor who died. My wife says we already have four so we can't bring a street cat in that's going to fight them.

She's right, but sometimes little girl comes up when I'm smoking and gets warm laying in my lap and I want to keep her so much.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

When I was a kid Mr Kitty unilaterally moved in despite belonging to the neighbors across the street and the stern objections of my father armed with a squirt gun.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Even with toys they are invading our space

https://i.vgy.me/Xb93ue.gif

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

I went to disagree untill I remembered there's a ginger cat that lives on my property that I feed sometimes

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

I love all cats, and they are free to walk inside anytime they want. Just no fighting in the house.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

The cat that walked into my house and said "I live here meow."

[-] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

"Everybody wants to talk about X, nobody wants to talk about Y".
That's not gaslighting, that's whataboutism.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Cats never domesticated themself, since ever they are specialists in domesticate humans, for commodity, not for need.

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