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They are the funniest creatures on earth. Manipulative, hilariously small, arrogant and lazy. Yet apex predators, god must have a sense of humour. They went a
by coolThingsFirst 3y ago
They are the funniest creatures on earth. Manipulative, hilariously small, arrogant and lazy.
Yet apex predators, god must have a sense of humour.
They went as far as manipulating prophet in islam so he placed them as ritually pure and a sign of faith for people who like them.
Christians killed them so bubonic plague came and ravaged europe. Coincidence, I think not.
- kjs3 3y agoCats (domestic ones, at least, and most that aren't 'big cats') aren't apex predators; those are predators with virtually no predators of their own. Cats are predators, but lots of things eat cats. Not that my cats don't think they're top of the food chain.
- bombcar 3y agoBig cats might be apex predators, normal house cats are just predators/prey. Cat management is something worth working on; it's kind of annoying that many places don't have free spay/neuter locations.
- kjs3 3y agoI think that's exactly what I said...
- dist-epoch 3y agoThey are the apex predators of their particular size (big cats or small cats).
- kjs3 3y agoNo. Small domestic dogs like terriers routinely kill cats. I've seen both a fox and a hawk kill a cat. The fox was perhaps slightly larger but not much; you maybe could say the hawk was 'bigger' by wingspan only but couldn't have weighed more than a third what the cat weighed. Owls take cats as well. Cats are just predators.
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- permo-w 3y agoall my instincts tell me that the parasite cats can spread to humans - toxoplasma gondii - really genuinely does change some humans' brain chemistry to make them unconditionally love cats. obviously instincts mean little, but some of the conversations you can get it in with cat people really beggar belief
- coolThingsFirst 3y agoThey are objectively very aesthetically pleasing.
- 2024throwaway 3y agoThey spend a large portion of their day licking their own buttholes, but sure.
- permo-w 3y agoso are origami. you wouldn't catch me excusing them of the mass-murder of vital, comparably aesthetically-pleasing animals
- samatman 3y agoThe last paragraph is one of those commonly-believed things which did not, in fact, happen. https://going-medieval.com/2023/05/16/on-cats/ https://going-medieval.com/2023/05/16/on-cats/