So why do my cats dive in front of mine so frequently!?

Edit: 36 feet, not 36 inches XD

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    This is why my chickens terrify me. They used to be 25 feet tall, just a handful of dozens of million years ago.

    Fucking murder machines.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    It’s not your home.

    It’s the cat’s home.

    You are its servant and caretaker, and it is training you.

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    I once stepped directly in the middle of my cats back walking down stairs. Instead of putting my weight down I fell backward, landing on my elbow a couple stairs down. All my weight. It took months to be able to lean on my elbow without pain. Pretty sure it was fractured.

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      Mine also try to kill me on the stairs. As soon as I start to walk up, they run up a few stairs ahead of me and then stop like assholes. Especially in the dark. Thankfully they don’t hang out on the stairs at other times so I know its going to happen because I hear them.

      I’ve started walking up them very slowly, so now they continue the game in the hallways and are guaranteed to get kicked at least once, at which point I say “by now you know I can’t see in the dark, you deserved that.” Rather than rewarding them with apology attention.

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      9 hours ago

      Your cat will respect that, once she gets over being pissed at your not noticing her camouflaged on the stair. Because how dare you.

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      Unless you’re my geriatric dog, in which case, you refuse to move no matter what the huge animal near you is doing, and just give them a hurt look when they walk into you.

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        The was a corgi my friends family had, a former show dog, he would intentionally lay behind someone who is standing in a hallway or other passage. He knew he would get tripped over, because he also knew he’d get affection and apology cuddles after.

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    Humans are to cats as cars are to humans: similar difference in weight and size, similar (if not greater) danger—but we walk around them because we’re used to them and we think we can predict them well enough. And because we’re often going to the same places.

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          Some say Alfiqs only live Elsweyr yet M’aiq has held many of conversations with Alfiq when no one is looking.

          Mayhaps Alfiq have nothing to say to you?

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        here, smart means “aware enough to not run under a titan’s feet”, a test cats fail to meet regularly.

        they’re oblivious little derps

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          I’ll take that point. But all in all I wouldn’t call cats dumb. There are some dumb specimen, for sure, but that goes for all beings. And this comes back to my initial point: Cats have some unique “smart” skills, they just don’t compute in the same way as we humans do. I’d put cats in the smart … lets say 10% of all creatures

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          You’re whiffing on the point. That’s not usual behavior for stray or wild cats, it’s a specialised behavior that involves people and other animals they feel are ‘safe.’ Not an intelligence issue.

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      No no. Karmalee was very pretty. Like, model cat.

      Dumb as hell. Pretty, but, if she were a human, she’d be a blonde valley girl from the 1980s. The kind the movie Clueless made fun of.

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    • 36 inches is about the height of a human 2 year old.
    • Assuming average weight of a 2 year old is 30lbs.
    • Assuming average body mass density is the same as water (1g/cm^3 ).

    Then average volume of a 2 year old is:

    (30lbs * 453.5924g/lbs) * cm^3 /1g = 13607.772cm^3

    • Assuming volume is constant, but weight increased to 2 US tons

    Then final creature density is:

    (2 * 2000lbs * 453.5924g/lbs) / 13607.772cm^3 = 133.333…g/cm^3

    That is about 6 times denser than the heaviest measured element and a little over half the density of the solar core.


    I sincerely hope my math is right, but this is a shitpost and I didn’t have paper so :shrug_emoji_1:

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    Because they trust us to not step on them. They see that we try to avoid them, and so, of course we won’t hurt them!

    Smart but not quite smart enough to realize accidents happen lol.

    They do seem to know if someone is disabled though and tend to either run faster (to clear the person’s path faster) or give a wider birth from what I’ve seen. They have to be near the human for awhile to realize though, that’s a learning curve for them.

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    11 hours ago

    If your species showed affection by rubbing against others and you trusted the creature not to step on you, and you were trying to act all sweet to beg for food tho…