• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    No offense to anyone who has a cat, but one of the reasons I have dogs is that they’ll probably wait until they get really hungry before they decide to eat your face if you die at home alone.

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      3 months ago

      Does that actually factor in? Or do you just prefer the company of dogs? Seems like a pretty irrational fear if you ask me.

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          3 months ago

          the unconditional love of a dog

          That’s the thing, though. A dog’s love is unconditional. You might ignore them, mistreat them, neglect them… and most dogs will keep on loving you, no matter what.

          A cat’s love, on the other hand, has to be earned. When a cat loves or even tolerates you, you know you deserve it. And that, that’s worth something. And you’ll never get it with a dog.

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              3 months ago

              A cat won’t judge you on human criteria.

              They’ll judge you as they would a big, awkward, somewhat dumb, and poorly socialised kitten who doesn’t know any better.

              All they’ll ask for is comfort (including food, litter box, and so on), respect (from a cat’s point of view, e.g., don’t look them directly at the eyes, that kind of thing; being allergic to cats, it should come naturally; cats love people who are allergic to cats, you tend to stay out of their way and not bother them when they don’t want to be bothered), and affection (when it suits them).

              If you can’t earn a cat’s trust… you probably shouldn’t be trusted with a dog either, even if the poor brain damaged critter will love you all the same.

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        3 months ago

        I would say most people care about how their corpse is disposed of. And ‘eaten by cats’ would not be my first choice.

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    3 months ago

    Cat domestication is mainly about making them small enough so that when they randomly decide to slap your face with their clawed paws you wouldn’t die.

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      3 months ago

      Domestic cats aren’t shrunken down big cats, the cats we take into our homes were always this size. They originated from Felis Silvestris Lybica, a species from Egypt and North Africa… Which look fairly similar to just regular cats.