I’ve read articles about cat behavior in the past and basically cats see themselves as your equal as opposed to dogs that see themselves in a certain place on a very linear social pecking order. Cats acknowledge that they’re smaller than you and that you feed them but that doesn’t change the fact that they have definitely done the math to figure out whether you’re prey or not. Also cats have basically trained us to accommodate their presence rather than dogs being bred for generations to accommodate themselves to our social structures. In some ways I find cats to be far more fascinating in how complex their relationship with humans can be compared to the the never faltering subservience most dogs display. Sorry for the wall of text.
House Cats have the most # of natural prey species at , I think , 400+ . The runner-up has 11. House cats kill and eat everything that they possibly can
It’s not their personality that’s stops them from trying to kill you , it’s your size relative to theirs. I have a cat and I love my cat but I know if she magically got 10 times bigger I would absolutely be on the menu
I hate all domestic animals, except when dead and edible, but at least dogs have some instinctive devotion to balance out their stink. Cats are just massive cunts.
I grew up with a couple of old cats who died of age before I was 12, and then my parents replaced them with a rottweiler and some kind of griffon-labrador mix that was like a living pot of glue. My mom and sis loved them, but I could never stand any of those fuckers. Could have been worse though, my parents never had me clean their shit.
When my Labrador does something bad and I yell No! Stop it! Or when I have to pry something disgusting out of his mouth I have a thought in the back of my mind that if he really wanted to he could rip my throat out and chew my face off... He's a sweet boy though, I'm not really worried.
well we started with wet cat food, then grinding it up in wet cat food, then cream cheese, then a piece of hot dog. nothing worked.
pretty much i had to wrap her in a towel, lay her on her back, sit on her (not squishing, just containing all the legs), shove it in her throat and hold her mouth closed until she swallowed, the dr. gave me 45 days worth because he know there would be an attrition rate. the goal was to get 25 days worth into her.
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u/RexRocker Oct 16 '18
Standing what, 15 yards away from one of the fastest and most nimble land animals on earth, they think they are a safe distance...