The "I don't want to talk about AI" thread, and the new topic is: boating and sailing

[Bramblethorn]

Many cat owners report things like this, and I always wonder, how did they figure out that it’s okay to scratch Mittens on the tummy but only in front of the living room window when it rains and it’s nighttime? Like, what kind of trial and error process leads to these sacred rules? It’s difficult enough to figure out kids and they can talk.

Partly trial and error, partly learning their body language, partly figuring out what drives them.

e.g. with my older cat, a lot of her behaviours around eating fit a pattern of needing to feel safe. She likes to eat facing the doorway, preferably with her back to a wall, and she likes to have me around keeping watch while she eats. Unexpected noises can spook her very easily while eating. Understanding that, it's easier to figure out what she'll go for.

 

[StillStunned]

Partly trial and error, partly learning their body language, partly figuring out what drives them.

e.g. with my older cat, a lot of her behaviours around eating fit a pattern of needing to feel safe. She likes to eat facing the doorway, preferably with her back to a wall, and she likes to have me around keeping watch while she eats. Unexpected noises can spook her very easily while eating. Understanding that, it's easier to figure out what she'll go for.

My cat went through a long phase where she wouldn't start eating until my wife or I was stroking her. Nowadays she demands food at the regular feeding time, even if she doesn't want to eat. It's feeding time, and therefore there has to be food. She likes her routines.

 

[Erozetta]

Partly trial and error, partly learning their body language, partly figuring out what drives them.

e.g. with my older cat, a lot of her behaviours around eating fit a pattern of needing to feel safe. She likes to eat facing the doorway, preferably with her back to a wall, and she likes to have me around keeping watch while she eats. Unexpected noises can spook her very easily while eating. Understanding that, it's easier to figure out what she'll go for.

Mine just waits until I order a whole case of the food she's gobbled up for a month then suddenly decides to turn her nose up at it. I have given away about $300 in cat food this year, lol.

(She is currently on a diet of expensive canned rabbit and "Oh my god what do you have in your mouth?!")

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

 

[Statius]

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Fantastic. Best use of that meme yet

 

[MillieDynamite]

That's so undog-like. Was he expecting you to throw it for him?

Literally and figuratively.

Our pup bought me in a rock. Not a small pebble, a lump of sandstone he dug up as big as my fist.

He was so proud...

So, fucking, true!

 

[StillStunned]

I have two cats. One has always loved being brushed. The other has only recently discovered it - she used to hate it. But now she demands to be brushed several times a day. And the other cat, seeing me take out the brush, then doesn't understand that it's not for her.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

I have two cats. One has always loved being brushed. The other has only recently discovered it - she used to hate it. But now she demands to be brushed several times a day. And the other cat, seeing me take out the brush, then doesn't understand that it's not for her.

Mine loved to climb in my lap and cuddle, but hated to be picked up. I guess it had to be on her terms.

 

[iwatchus]

We have two cats as well, both of whom could be poster childs for FOMO. The older one is a long haired cat (probably Maine Coon) and the other an american short haired, so minimum fur. The younger one is the one without fur and is bound and determined to get what ever the older one gets. My SO combs the older one most evenings. The younger one routinely demands to be combed as well, and then remembers she actually hates it.

 

[iwatchus]

Mine loved to climb in my lap and cuddle, but hated to be picked up. I guess it had to be on her terms.

My younger one loves to be in either of our laps. Well, mine only if my legs are covered. She seems to think bare legs mean I have mange or something and won't get up. I have developed edema with my knee, so I am wearing knee length compression socks, which cures my mange apparently.

The older one is too standoffish to climb in a lap (we acquired her when she was seven), but she needs to be in the room with us. She is fascinated by watching the little one settle into a lap and start purring. Earlier this summer, she looked at me so I invited her up into my lap. Her look was hysterical. She really wanted to try it, but she was absolutely terrified that she might do it. She was completely paralyzed for several minutes between true desire and sheer terror. She finally had to turn around so she wouldn't see my lap.

 

[Statius]

Are we sure it's not entirely about cats? As a dog person/ owner I'm feeling neglected, isolated, and left out.....

Not really. Growing up we had a cat that would pee in a toilet.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Cats make me

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Are we sure it's not entirely about cats? As a dog person/ owner I'm feeling neglected, isolated, and left out.....

Not really. Growing up we had a cat that would pee in a toilet.

There's an app for that...

 

[StillStunned]

Cats make me

You probably did something awful in a previous life.

 

[EmilyMiller]

You probably did something awful in a previous life.

Nah! It was in this life.

 

[Fluffstravels]

My cat will jump in with me when im in shower occasionally and LOVES water in general. He also hates my dinosaur

 

[Statius]

There's an app for that...

This was slightly before apps. Unless that's short for appetizers, heehee!

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

This was slightly before apps. Unless that's short for appetizers, heehee!

"App for that' = euphemism for a known solution to the problem. Click the link and it will take you to a website for one of several products to train a cat to pee in the toilet.

 

[StillStunned]

My cat will jump in with me when im in shower occasionally and LOVES water in general. He also hates my dinosaur

Is that a euphemism? "Hey darling, would you like to see my plesiosaurus?"

 

[UsuallyPresent]

Is that a euphemism? "Hey darling, would you like to see my plesiosaurus?"

Crystallized, locked in stone, and very, very old ?

 

[Fluffstravels]

Is that a euphemism? "Hey darling, would you like to see my plesiosaurus?"

She looks like a dinosaur and when I went to school they taught us she was a dinosaur
But she’s just a beautiful lizard

 

[NuclearFairy]

Are we sure it's not entirely about cats? As a dog person/ owner I'm feeling neglected, isolated, and left out.....

Not really. Growing up we had a cat that would pee in a toilet.

My cat prefers to pee in the bathroom sink. I've tried redirecting him to the toilet or even the litter box, but he just looks at me like I'm crazy. So I'm stuck cleaning the bathroom sink multiple times a day.

 

[DevlinSkye]

My cat was lost, so my husband spent hours searching the neighborhood. He eventually found a cat and brought it home. Later that evening, my own cat returned on its own. Now we have two cats and we don't know which one is ours!

 

[NuclearFairy]

Have you tried holding the door open and seeing which one leaves?

The one that stays inside is probably not your cat.

 

[StillStunned]

Have you tried holding the door open and seeing which one leaves?

The one that stays inside is probably not your cat.

Holding the door open? And expecting any cat to stir off its arse? Saints have had their patience tried to the breaking point.