Critters!
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Bubba has been trying so hard to be best friends with Old Man Fuzz.
Finally, after a few months, Fuzz tolerates Bubba's presence.
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@testament "My skin is already a blanket, so why is this blanket lying on me? Am I not hot enough?"
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I am doing slow blinks at photos of cats. Jesus Christ.
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The Marijuana babies (now named Indica and Sativa) are just too adorable. I'm not totally sure my husband is going to be able to let them go to their real foster.
Indica, front, would only eat this afternoon when I was gently petting (like, one finger). Each time I stopped they stopped eating. We (me and the shelter) think that seriously it might just be socialization they need.
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@silverfox I want them both. Both of them. In mah home.
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@silverfox The crossed eyes are killing me.
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They caught two more! (They are going to a different house though.)
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TABBY FLOOF!
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Given what they look like now as babies they are going to have the most magnificent manes once they have grown up.
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@snackness said in Critters!:
@silverfox The crossed eyes are killing me.
I've a cross-eyed black tomcat. He's a complete idiot who, despite being gorgeous, runs and hides when anything happens. Anything.
However he doesn't classify "online meetings" as something. In real life he is a rare sight for people who don't already live in this house but online he gets in front of the webcam all the time and begs for pettings.
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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@arkandel Its the lack of scent. Cats love web meetings because they get all the coo'ing praise and attention, but there's no extra people there to make them tense. So they can parade about in front of the webcam, getting cuddled and petted by their person, and getting the verbal affection of others!
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“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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@ganymede I mean, I wouldn't call being open and friendly during web meetings being an asshole... XD
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@too-old-for-this I wonder if this is why my dog is always so curious when I'm in a Zoom.
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@macha Almost assuredly. Phone calls, web calls, anything where they can HEAR other people, SEE other people, but there's no scent. Animals are much more scent-driven than we are. It's how they mark territory, claim ownership over objects (and people), how they indicate maturity and readiness to breed. Even cats, as sight-based predators, use scent for a TON of things. Dogs even moreso. So having 'people' around that they can't smell? It's like playing peek-a-boo with a baby.
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@too-old-for-this I also am now thinking this is why he is very insistent when I'm in Zoom meetings, and he gets his dose of "Logie Bear!" Or "Hey Buddy!" He insists on sitting ON ME somehow. Like these people he can hear and can't smell are going to come out of the screen and get me.
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@too-old-for-this said in Critters!:
@macha Even cats, as sight-based predators
I know they are predators. I believe it. Rationally I recognize the effect they have on ecosystems. Cats are hunters.
I also live with these dumb motherfuckers. Sometimes I give Gus a treat on his tree and he drops it by mistake (the dogs steal it) or he pushes it behind his bowl and then can't find it so he gives up. Predators my ass.
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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@arkandel The odd part is... if you put Gus into a wooded area with relatively few larger predators? He'd probably get along just fine. But frankly, we keep suppressing their natural instincts as house cats because it's inconvenient for us. Scratching the furniture? No, bad. 'Hunting' your feet/hands? No, bad. Zoomies at 3am because that's when instinct says is best to hunt? No, bad.
We love cats, but WE'RE turning them into derps by forcing them to live on our terms.
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@arkandel To be fair, cats have notoriously bad close-up vision. They're very far-sighted, so if its close to them and not moving, they are often dumbfounded until and unless they use their sniffer to locate.
