Have any of you seen the animals on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok that have a soundboard they learn how to use? There's a huge debate in the psychology and linguistics community about what constitutes an understanding of language, for example does learning some sign language count. I've seen plenty of examples of primates and even dogs learning hundreds of words, but apparently there's several cats on social media that use these sound boards in very impressive ways. I've been going through this lady's videos the past couple of days. https://www.kqed.org/arts/13893259/...lking-animals-bunny-billi-bastian-and-steve-b
The son of a bitch i got neutered apparently had a romp with another stray that is now hanging around my house. Expecting a kittens in a few weeks.
Woke up at 2am to a lot of squeaking/thrashing in the hallway. Went back to sleep. Got up this morning and there was a blood spot on the carpet and blood spatter/smearing on the baseboard. No corpse.
cat2 is currently killing everything remotely close to the house. i assume it's mostly mice because he leaves their decapitated bodies at the door he goes in and out of. i don't feel great about this but i don't feel bad either
i actually tried to "make" them indoor early on but one of them scratched the absolute fuck out of a section of drywall near the door that they use to go in/out and i was like "aight, you win"
So Mario bit me this evening as I was giving him a good combing, purring the whole time, chomped down on my index finger knuckle. One slice and one puncture, washed it out and polysporined the hell out of it before bandaging, but it's nice and sore, the little fucker
One of my cats normally likes to greet me when I come home by jumping on top of the cat tree and roll around while getting petted and meowing a bunch. Well yesterday she decided to just stay in the window. She did the elevator butt thing but then just rolled over on her side to get a belly rub, which is pretty rare. When I decided to stop, she grabbed me by the wrist so she could lick and gently chew on my hand, that's the first time she has ever done that in like a decade of owning her. I thought she was about to go into bitchy mode and bite me
This guy was feeling slick until I started taking pictures and ruining his cover. He promptly retreated inside and probably fucked some shit up that I'll discover at some later date. Pay no mind to my shitty untilled garden pls
Lost Mario to coyotes last week. Just adopted two kittens from the same litter, will take them home in a few days after they get their little balls crushed and sucked out
Put a deposit down on 2 aby kittens this weekend. Will be rejoining thread as an owner in the next 6-9 months.
The breed has different type dander that doesn’t trigger my wife’s allergies. doesn’t hurt that they’re just awesome.
Mew brought in a scrub jay this evening, and she spent an hour toying with it up in our bedroom, batting it down every time it tried to fly away. I put a towel over it and threw it out the window and locked her inside because it's past her curfew, and now she won't shut up
he can walk into it, lean against it, and scratch against it. and if he's bored, he can jump into it. good cat bed. and possibly spy out of the sides, thinking he is being slick
At least she’s not peeing in the house when she’s asleep. You can see a little of her bald belly. She has no fur from chest to butt on her underside from licking it off.
Love reading about these. Some famous ones over the years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship%27s_cat