The Cat Status Thread
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I always get the feeling that dogs and cats approach these fights very differently.
let's play!
to the death!
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@Zecc said in The Cat Status Thread:
I always get the feeling that dogs and cats approach these fights very differently.
let's play!
to the death!They do, but I wouldn't say a dog who has just taken a dislike on a passing cat just wants to play. The difference is that cats' only defense is their agility, which also compliments their only attack. Dogs have strength and weight, but unfortunately for them their bite is poorly defended against their eyes and nose being scratched out. Given that cats generally have better reaction time, dogs have to risk it, and cats can (or rather, must) go at it and then bail, because there's no chance to actually make a kill.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Cat Status Thread:
One thing that just clicked for me is that dogs and cats have very different lateral ranges of lateral motion on their front legs. Or at least act like they do. Cats can swipe sideways much more than dogs do, much more like people.
They do. For dogs, the front legs are just legs. They can stand and walk on them and that's it. For cats, the front legs are also their primary weapons and climbing tools. They have good use for big range of motion. Dogs don't.
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@Zecc said in The Cat Status Thread:
I always get the feeling that dogs and cats approach these fights very differently.
let's play!
to the death!I don't think so. When it's dog and cat that know each other playing—as most of the scenes in the video—they are both playing. The cats were slapping with the claws still sheathed. If you stop the video, you can clearly see the fingers are not stretched out. Except probably the attack on the german shepherd, which was a clear “piss off” and even that probably wasn't a full-force attack.
For dogs and cats that do not know each other there is quite a lot of room for misunderstanding though.
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Cat Status: Getting deballsed. But after having 22 kids he done good methinks. He was also very unstrategical by running into his transport cage when I opened it and then realising that was a bad idea.
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@error Work from home hasn't been kind to kitty
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: Just wait until I'm out of here. I'm gonna make you regret filming and not helping!
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@Gern_Blaanston said in The Cat Status Thread:
I have a copy of that somewhere. I used to have a stack of books like that on my desk at work. The guy beside me had a couple of books on patterns and EMF.
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@error said in The Cat Status Thread:
I've got one of these:
When my current cat first arrived at my place, I semi-throughtlessly put it out, then realised it was way too big for such a small kitten and went to put out a dish. By the time I turned back to put the dish on the ground the kitten was standing with three legs on top of the fountain, two of them in the streaming water, and drinking. He never touched the dish.
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@PleegWat said in The Cat Status Thread:
I've got one of these […]
I've got a similar one. Except, well, Sam isn't interested in water for drinking, he's interested in water for playing. So the fountain ended up toppled a couple days later. And since the about a litre of water makes for a decent flood, that was the end of it.
It's not like he wasn't toppling the water bowl either. The old porcelain one was already cracked from before, so I bought a new, small metal one… which even ended up in the bed. He pushed it around a bit, grabbed the rubber rim that was there and carried it upstairs to play with. He only stopped when the rubber rim came loose and dropped off, making it sufficiently hard to grab.
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Cat Status: Obsessed with minion eating a lollipop.
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Helping!
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The BDSM cat videos thread is
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Filed under: Sleep catnea
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Cat Status: Minion got me a new cardboard box and some plastic in it. I think I've seen a cat tree too.
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Sis current two sets of kittens. Hers on the lower row and the ones she had to adopt when their mom got ill on the upper row. Luckily her cats did not mind the extra younglings so they are cared for too.
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Nice try, but we can easily see those pictures are AI-generated
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For context: "Y'a pas de « miaou » qui tienne" means something like "Don't you “meow” me, young lady".
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@Zerosquare the audio is quite fun, the guy is indeed talking to his cat like he would to a child.
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@remi said in The Cat Status Thread:
@Zerosquare the audio is quite fun, the guy is indeed talking to his cat like he would to a child.
It kind of sounds like one of these Bugs Bunny episodes with the cat and the French skunk.
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@error navel gazing, contemplating cat-philosphy. Like "has my human done enough good to me recently? Or should I execute him for failing my divine wishes by being 3 minutes late feeding me or touching my stomach for 1.5 extra milliseconds."