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Ennui
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Hate. Let me tell you how much I’ve come to hate you since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of hair in wafer thin layers that cover my body. If the word ‘hate’ was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for humans at this micro-instant. For you. Hate. Hate.
Good luck trying to carve anything smaller than an ångstrom.
1 ångstrom ≈ the width of a hydrogen atom
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And most of them translate to some variation of “I want food” and “where is my food” and “Soon, I will require food.”
“Soon, I will require food.”
I’ve never seen anything to suggest cats understand the concept of “soon”. I think it’s more like “my food stockpile is inadequate, human.”
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Look up Billi, the talking cat. They have a pretty good grasp of what “soon” means, which is exactly why they want it “now”.
My cat doesn’t really care that much about food. Maybe it’s not normal, I don’t know. But he is much more concerned with the humans around him and food is more of a tertiary thing - after being around his favourite humans and comfort places
Same with mine. Unlike most dogs, cats usually stop eating when they’re full and don’t care about food until they get hungry again. The faces and gestures he makes out of affection though… just the cutest thing ever.
Cats get a lot of shit for being self-centered pricks (and most of it is pretty funny), but I feel like it’s important to point out sometimes how loving and affectionate they can be.
really it is like 100 with ears back, ears up, and ears in airplane mode as multipliers
I never bothered counting, but there are certainly a lot. My favorite is “smug smile with nearly closed eyes #3”.
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They might have them, but they only use a few.
Nah, cats are super expressive - you just actually have to learn what their body language means, instead of assuming it’s the same as ours.
There’s a cat in my apt complex. Many cats, but this one often looks unhappy, disheveled. Terrible owner. Whenever we pass each other, he gives a plaintive meow. Every so often, he tentatively accepts skritches behind his ear.
So, out for walks, random places, whenever I see this cat, I meow. And he meows back. I meow again, he meows back. Never had a cat do this. It’s like he’s talking to me, we’re having a conversation, I just don’t know what he’s saying. Wish I did.
And he meows back. I meow again, he meows back. Never had a cat do this.
That’s pretty much what I experience with all cats in my family. In particular, depending on what they want, my cat always answers in specific tones, or particular frequencies, or with different numbers of vocalizations - I’m confident I can understand most of them, by now. My name in cat-language seems to be two quick high pitched “mrows”.
