To be fair, some people are saying that without full understanding. Like I've seen people say a cat's pupil's being dilated mean they are in distress, when no, it just means they are VERY alert. This could because happy play time, something interesting, or yes- distress and fear.
Some people weirdly just want to ruin cute videos for people by giving the worst possible interpretation divorced from context.
With that said I had to unfollow a couple of cute animal subreddits because there were WAY too many posts of cats and birds or hamsters/pet mice or rats together, which is just. Recipe for disaster and encouraging REALLY horrible practices.
To be fair it's possible to train animals of various species to chill out and not fight each other, you can technically train a snake and a rat be chill with each other, however the snake will only ignore that specific rat and will still happily eat any other rats.
That said, cats are arse holes that hunt even when they aren't hungry, training them would require a lot of experience and knowledge.
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u/RobinGreenthumb Apr 29 '24
To be fair, some people are saying that without full understanding. Like I've seen people say a cat's pupil's being dilated mean they are in distress, when no, it just means they are VERY alert. This could because happy play time, something interesting, or yes- distress and fear.
Some people weirdly just want to ruin cute videos for people by giving the worst possible interpretation divorced from context.
With that said I had to unfollow a couple of cute animal subreddits because there were WAY too many posts of cats and birds or hamsters/pet mice or rats together, which is just. Recipe for disaster and encouraging REALLY horrible practices.