So why do my cats dive in front of mine so frequently!?
Edit: 36 feet, not 36 inches XD
Because you’re a good person and prefer to fall on your face to accidentally kicking your cats. If you were to give them a kick each time they cut you off, they’d learn to keep their distance.
Because the scale matters
Multiply the numbers by 100 again and imagine a kink
It’s not your home.
It’s the cat’s home.
You are its servant and caretaker, and it is training you.
they trust that I won’t waffle stomp them.
their trust is misplaced.
36" tall, 2-ton creature
3 feet tall, 4000 pounds?
Someone here has dated that person. You KNOW they have…
You remember the song “George Washington, George Washington 3 feet tall and 4000 pounds”
George Washington by Brad Neely.
Washington, Washington. six-foot-eight, weighs a fucking ton (VIEWER WARNING: He’ll save children, but not the British children.)
Also later in the song:
- “six-foot-twenty, fucking killing for fun”,
- “12 stories high, made of radiation”
He’ll save the children just not the British children
Some kind of short legged quadruped? Low rider bull?
Look, look. Look, this is what I was asked to build. Eighteen inches. Right here, it specifies eighteen inches. I was given this napkin, I mean…
Maybe some sort of clonal shrub, like an aspen but shorter? XD
Thanks for the correction!
They called 'em the Lead Pancake in high school.
They might like De La Soul
op is dense fella
He’s a cheese wheel!
Girthy.
Square-cube law, mate. Cats are far stronger per gram than us. It would be more like us living with a 3 meter orc that weighed 500kg. Not great, but not terrible. I’ll run the numbers and get back to you.
What is 36 feet in (centi)meters?
About 11 meters.
divide by 3.281
About 10 cm?
36 ft / 3.281 = 10.97 meters
They are being careful. They’re just so much more agile than you.
Uh mine gets kicked accidentally at least once a day despite me trying to be careful. She is orange, though. She gets so excited for food that shin-headbutts slow down the food-getting process by 3/4ths.
She is orange, though.
For a real answer, they’re claiming the space. They’re demonstrating that they can control it and you
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.
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.
Did you get it checked out by a doctor?
Im in America. No.
Shithole country
Your cat will respect that, once she gets over being pissed at your not noticing her camouflaged on the stair. Because how dare you.
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.
As if the cats don’t enjoy your disdain.
I’m just waiting for the day my cat realizes I can’t see in the dark like she can, and it’s maybe not the greatest idea to sprawl out on the hallway floor directly between the bedroom and bathroom at night…
My cat actually does know that! He doesn’t mess with my legs when it’s dark XD
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.
" inches - two syllables ’ feet - one syllable
Cats are reeeal dumb animals, but people think they are smart because they are pretty.
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.
If smart means ‘thinks like a human’ then I guess so…
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
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
wow, 10%. cats are so unaware i think I could give them top 60%.
Killer whales, primates, crows, plenty of animals seem to demonstrate problem solving skills, true communication, situational awareness. cats do not. they seem to operate solely on instinct and any deviation completely flummoxes system.
They’re good at stalking and being pretty, but that’s about it.
But there’s no way in heckadoo cats are anywhere near the top 10% smartest animals. they tricked ya by looking sleeeek.
I think it’s the toxoplasmosis talking
it has to be.
I think you might be understimating how many animal species there are. Birds and mammals make up a measly 1% of those. Soo even if we take all mammals and birds, cats are even in the top 1%, I was being very generous ;)
or you are mixing up aesthetics and instinct with intelligence. you are being poop-duped by the kitkats. toxoplasmosed.
… Sure.
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.
whiff
whiff because you failed to provide a “/s” tag?
Sure, buddy.
wwwwwwwhiff
That “omission” is deliberate.
Your literal first comment is:
Cats are reeeal dumb animals, but people think they are smart because they are pretty.
You’re saying that’s meant sarcastically, and everyone reading is supposed to automagically know that you’re being facetious? Do you find yourself regularly surrounded by mind-readers…?
I dunno, any time I watch a movie with giants or giant creatures, people are innevitably running around by their feet. I don’t think humans are that smart either.
humams are terrible in the decision-making department, but we do steadfastly avoid being underfoot lephants as much as possible.
wide berth.
Elephants literally kill more people than almost any other animal.
Thanks, i guess…
Housecats, not khajit. Y’all are smarter and uglier before Skyrim at least
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?
They are relatively smart, but they think like cats not like people and people love to anthromorphize their pets.
The fact that they understand dignity hides the fact that they din’t understand much in general
