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I had a cat who loved to be tossed across the room (onto the nice safe soft bed) and who would excitedly run back to be tossed again. Just don't ask how we figu
by blamestross 3y ago
I had a cat who loved to be tossed across the room (onto the nice safe soft bed) and who would excitedly run back to be tossed again. Just don't ask how we figured it out in the first place...
But he was wierd. He liked going on walks on a leash, and demanded a chair at the table when we played boardgames and he would happily sit and watch us play (or sit in the middle of the board until we got him a seat).
The first time I met him, he very clearly, intentionally guided me to his brother who was sick (meow, runs towards me, meow then back towards his brother, repeat).
We lost him kinda without warning, he got an ear infection that popped his eardrum then he never recovered from the shock. Cats don't communicate pain or discomfort well, so we didn't even realize something was wrong until it was too late.
But yeah, consistent recessive outliers are an evolutionary advantage trait. I've seen a lot of arguments that neurodiversity is an evolutionary trait, as having multiple behavior patterns in the population helps with survival. Cats are social animals, which means a similar neurodiversity pressure probably acts on them.
- ComputerGuru 3y agoI’m sorry for your loss; that sounds like a phenomenal cat friend!
- denton-scratch 3y ago> (or sit in the middle of the board until we got him a seat) I've lived with several different cats whose favourite position was directly between the people and the television. I'm not a cat person (nor a dog person); I know nothing. But I suppose they like human attention, so they sit where the humans are looking.
- arwhatever 3y agoSame here - we have a cat right now who is remarkably adept at precisely blocking the middle 1/3 of the tv where the captions are displayed.
- recursivecaveat 3y agoMy parent's cat is a total stereotype and will walk back and forth in front of any monitor, including across your keyboard, until you stop what you're doing to give her your full attention.
- blamestross 3y agoThe trick here, is that once you got him his own seat at the table, he was perfectly happy to sit on it with his face poking up and watching us play. If I just made him get off the table, the first time we look away he would hop right back on and start knocking pieces off in protest of this mistreatment.
- WalterBright 3y ago> neurodiversity is an evolutionary trait I'm pretty sure it is, as society needs us nerds to invent new things.
- api 3y agoDiversity in general is adaptive. If your species is a bunch of clones then the first challenge to which it isn’t well adapted causes its extinction.