A lot of pets will ignore you, but only a cat will follow you from room to room and check your lines of vision to make absolutely certain that you can see them ignoring you.
theyre not ignoring you! this is actually just a cats way of saying they want to keep you company without infringing on your personal space. its the equivalent of going to a friends house while you both separately scroll through tumblr, even though youre glad to be together. alternatively the cat could be curious about what you are doing, but shy to make its presence known. either way the cat is paying very close attention to you!
this made me feel better
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I donât understand why cats will have everything they do demonized no matter how innocent it is
Itâs because they are hypersensitive introverts, and humans are mostly social extroverts.
Hypersensitive, introverted humans are often mistaken for antisocial, and as a species, we are myopic and anthropomorphize EVERYTHING.
Semi-social animals are not naturally intuitive to humans.
Dog packs very closely mirror a nuclear human family, made up of a mother and father and their pups, who leave to find their own mates and start their own packs as they mature beyond young adult hood.
Pigeon flocks are like a villiage comprized of one big, extended family, where children mostly stay close and new birds marry in.
Cats donât work that way. There is no firmly set social structure for more social domestic cats to fall back on. None of the species they are thought to come from are naturally social. They mate, have kittens, and those families disperse to the four winds as soon as the young become self sufficient.
We have selected for higher tolerance to crowding and confinement, but that does not a social structure make.
A group of cats is more like random collage dorm or house mates. Whether or not they get along and how many the group can support long term depends on how well their individual personalities mesh, regardless of blood relation.
Kittens are more out going and have more energy than adult cats, but as they age, being playful and taking the risk of being friendly takes more energy than they have, so they go from being willing to play with every one to prefering the company of favorite familiar entities that have taken the time to learn about that individuals needs and preferences.
Humans, who naturally form close knit pack bonds, are generally out going, and do their very damnedest to form life long bonds of friendship see a catâs intense curiosity and wary shyness of approach as stalkerish, and its need for quiet solitude when overstimulated (coupled with just *how* fast they become overstimulated) as fickleness, and are completely heartbroken when a friendly, out going kitten grows into a relatively shy, reserved cat.
With no effort to understand, what the average human sees is a sly, untrustwothy animal that is friendly one second, and warninglessly aggressive the next, not because there actually was no warning, but because feline body language is very subtle.
Once again, due to a catâs sensitivity.
To a cat, humans are VERY loud, over the top dramatic, and socially dense as a fucking brick.
They have to scream EVERYTHING to get across to most of us, and that shit is exhausting.
The fact that they do make that stressful and exhausting effort proves that the ones who like us actually love us VERY much! Just not in a way that big, loud, oblivious drama queens easily pick up on.
Reblogging to the pet blog because animal behavior.
Your cat is trying to tell you something. You might think theyâre hungry or want skritches or to play, but some cats are trying to say, âHey, look at me, Iâm a samurai!â Now, thanks to a Japanese company called Samurai Age, your little feline warrior can show off their true selves by donning a custom suit of samurai armor made just for them. And if youâve got a sekrit samurai dog in your home, they can get in on the action too.
âSamurai Age offers standardized armor sized for cats and small dogs, but they also make custom designs that accommodate your little four-legged samuraiâs individual needs. It looks like the company will also sell pet fashion sets made after armor worn by the legendary Japanese samurais.â
Honestly I canât believe that Iâm watching this right now. This is This is the sweetest most gentle and loving and pure thing Iâve ever beheld and I feel so blessed to have seen this
For a minute I thought he just had fur that changed color/pattern right on his hindquarters. Buh, I have no brain.
Poor baby, I hope he gets well soon!
âno brainâ, NO WAY.Â
Comments like yours are legit some of my favorite because I get to talk about COOL COAT PATTERNS IN CATS. There are cases where shaving a cat has resulted in a drastic coat pattern change.
SAY HELLO TO QUATTRO
Before he was shaved, his fur was pretty typical siamese: all creamy with just his legs, face, and tail dark. But now his whole flank is dark.
Why?
Because Siamese points are actually a result of temperature-dependent albinism! đ Also known as
acromelanism, this is a neat little mutation in which a specific enzyme (tyrosinase, which is responsible for melanin production) stops functioning at a normal body temperature, but will function when it gets cooler. So in cool zones on a catâs body (face, ears, tail, feets), melanin production is normal. The warm zones develop in a lovely cream.
Since his butt is cold, it has normal melanin production. Once it gets all fuzzy and starts a typical shed pattern, itâll come in cream eventually. Until then, heâll have weird pants.
Genetics are weird and AWESOME.
It got even better
Wait so what about the first cat? Weâre his pants always that different to his jacket or are his new pants different to his old ones??
Jonahâs pants are just slow growing. His pants look different bc theyâre still growing in.
as far as I know, there is no large carnivore who would abandon actively eating a killed meal to chase live prey. chasing and hunting live prey is a risk, as a healthy live creature has the capability to injure a carnivore, or tire it out through the chase. If there is, say, a giant pile of dead bodies to eat, which abandoning would allow other carnivores or scavengers to steal and eat instead, it makes no sense at all.Â
please stop doing that thing
The sole exception I can think of is if the large carnivore thought the live prey was another carnivore or scavenger, and was chasing them as a threat display to ensure they didnât steal the dead bodies. Even in that case, though, it would only be a short, mock charge followed by returning to the pile if the opponent fled. With possibly whatever the animalâs equivalent of âand stay outâ would be.Â
Another thing: most carnivores donât like to fight. They have to mug something to death for every single meal, they have to stay in top shape while conserving their energy. Meanwhile, herbivores have plenty of extra energy because they eat stuff that comes out of the ground and doesnât fight back, and they often live in big social groups, so theyâre better at handling stress and more used to having to actually come to blows with other animals to get their way.Â
So like, a zebra will try kick your ass just to see whatâs up. A tiger wonât do shit unless itâs damn sure it can take you. Iâd rather come face to face with a cougar than a stagâ have you seen videos of what happens to hunters when a stag catches a dude on the ground? the stag tears the dude apart. Not even to eat him. Just because the stag didnât like what was going on and decided it was time to curb stomp a motherfucker.Â
So if youâre deciding what kind of Big Scary Animals to have be a threat, like, forget wolves and lions and eagles and velociraptors. Go drop in a moose.
This is why loud noise can scare bears away. Itâs a threat display that normally convinces them that the charge isnât worth the effort.
-Exception: Â
If a carnivore is Not That Hungry it might drop something dead to chase something that is doing Extreme Prey Behaviorâ but itâs not going to be serious about it. Iâm thinking of things like a domestic cat that chases birds and mice for kicks. Honestly, I think that the t rex in Jurassic Park was a good example of predator behaviorâ she abandons something difficult (like the kids in the jeep) for the bright shiny thing she has been conditioned to understand means food (tightpants math guy with the flare + gruff dino man with flare). For the rest of the film, she chases things that run, and then quits and chows down once she has something. This has been one of my biggest beefs with the later JP films, especially Jurassic Worldâ rather than the scares coming from being treated and stalked like prey by animals, the scares are based on monsters killing and eating randomly. (And whatâs with the treatment of all the herbivores as good and gentle? Herbivores will fuck you up because they got scared or because you pissed them off and those are the two primary emotions of large herbivoresâ they wonât eat you, but theyâll still trample you).
+Addition:
The predators that arenât snipers (like cougars or herons) tend to test individuals in a herdâ they want to gauge your health and willingness to fuck somebody up before they commit to you as a target. If you stare them down with your cold dead eyes and gear up to wreck their shit theyâll piss off unless theyâre completely desperate. (Like I said, the main emotions of prey animals are Time To Fuck Shit Up and Time To Run). So, Iâm desperately tired of all these people running and screaming away from wolves and velociraptors and bears oh my.Â
Consider:
How much scarier fiction could be if predators acted like actual predators that can be intelligent and patient and are pressing around the edges of your party to find weakness and fear.Â
Ever gone back and read the original Jurassic Park book? Please donât, fuckinâ awful I couldnât even finish it for various reason but the predator behavior like this was a BIG problem. I got so angry at itâŠhaha.
In many situations youâd be more likely to get chased and damaged by a herbivore feeling threatened than a predator already feeding (though push your luck there and see what happensâŠ)
My favourite example of the âherbivores are harmlessâ fallacy is the
Cape Buffalo. If theyâre unhappy about the presence of something that upsets them, theyâll make it go awayâŠ
âŠand if the
something-that-upsets-them
canât run away fast enough (people, for one) then its going-away can be messy and permanent.
Someone (I think it was writer Robert Ruark) once described Cape Buffalo as âlooking at you as if you owe them money.â
This lot all know you owe them moneyâŠ
âŠbut the big guy on the left knows how much, and that your repayment is late.
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