• Ecksell@lemmy.one
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    Nobody in here is serious haha!

    One of a feline’s most devastating offensive/kill maneuvers is to grab its prey in its front paws belly to belly (claws out to keep hold), and use its more powerful back feet’s claws to slice through its prey’s belly. Repeatedly until the victims guts fall out, leaving the victim evicerated and slowly dying. What you are seeing when they are “playing” like that is them practicing a lethal combo move.

    Even common housecats are murder machines. They don’t have bells because they are cute, the bells are to warn birds and squirrels of incoming doom. I’m serious, they are the #1 killer of small animals.

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        It wasn’t a single cat, but yeah. The island became infested with them. After the damage was done, they sent men with shotguns to kill the cats. Whole lotta good all that did.

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      TLDR When a cat rolls over and shows its belly, its pointing a GUN at you.

      Edit: they’re also so murderous that they practice their aim by shooting themselves in the face over and over again, for FUN.

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          Which is one of the reasons cats and dogs hate each other — they speak completely different languages. Not just the belly example, but when a dog wags its tail, it’s friendly. When a cat waves its tail, watch out!

          Cats and dogs raised together eventually work this out.

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        I know this was a joke, but it’s actually them showing you that they trust you enough to show you their most vulnerable spot. Cats can snuggle against you or sleep in your lap if they like you, but they get something out of that exchange. Showing their belly is purely letting you know you’re trusted. It’s like a hug.

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        My cats are indoors only, in part because I’m worried they’ll be abused/stolen but also because they are apex predators. I’ve seen them even just playing and they’re… Brutal. I have literal scars from them ‘playing’.

        But they’re happy. And safe. It’s OK for them to be indoors cats if I just keep them stimulated. They have zoomies, they get a bit shitty at times but they’re fine.

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        One could argue that domestic cats proliferation throughout the world is from human action as well. Their natural habitat certainly wasn’t the south of Wales before we stepped in and took them all over the world for them to evolve into different types. My understanding is that most house cats evolved from desert dwelling cats.

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      I saw a YouTube video a long time ago where they strapped cameras to outdoor cats. They were all pets, not feral. They thought they were going to get these cute videos of their cats playing and exploring the world but they were pretty much non-stop murdering.

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      Can confirm. My adopted rag doll mix does this to my hands. Grab and flipper kick till submission. RIP my hands.

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      I figure it’s similar to why humans get the urge to throw things since that was our main hunting technique for a long time. We have entire sports built around it and just about everyone gets the urge to toss paper in the bin instead of just dropping it.

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      If I remember correctly the domesticated house cat is one of the predators with the highest success rates in hunting. A small species of wild cat holds the record for the absolute highest access rate. They’re ambulatory buzz saws.

      They’re also the only animal in Star Trek that gives multiple officers nightmares. Long live Spot.

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    Because cats have like 8 brain cells between all of them and sometimes another cat is using them.

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    If a child has no one else to play with what do they do, play by themselves - many mammals do. Paws are just what’s in front of them - and sometimes tails. It’s all about play which prepares them for hunting.

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      When a cat plays with themselves in front of everyone, it’s cute and goofy. When I do it, I’m gross and a pervert. That doesn’t seem fair.

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          While not even trying to argue why I am wrong . Clearly a troll so just best to ignore him. Also nice to see his upvote/downvote ratio

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    Cats can overstimulate their olfactory senses, causes them to have the same effect as when you get pepper in your nose, this is their physical response to that feeling.

    Edit: I love when people downvote objectively true information. I never said it was the only cause or the main cause, but it is a cause. I know this from my own 35 years of personal experience dealing with cats.

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          Sorry, but it’s not “objectively true information” if you have no evidence to share. You think it’s true, and it might be, but how can you be sure? How do you know it’s olfactory overload, not just something your cat likes to do in response to smells? You deserve the downvotes.

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              I’m not doing that. I’m not claiming anything. All I’m saying is that your lived experience doesn’t equal objective truth. You understand that, right? That you could always be wrong?

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                I could always be right, and frankly I’ll take my lived experience including my literal decades of experience including interactions with both hundreds of career professionals and even more cats, none of which I can “prove”, yet I’ll take that over the non experience of some belligerent wannabe intellectual on the Internet.

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                  Just stop for one second, calm down, and realise: I’ve never claimed you are wrong. You’re getting worked up because people don’t immediately believe every word you say. Is that such a hard thing for you to accept?

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                Being an anecdote doesn’t disprove anything, if anything it’s one point of data towards the opposite. And I have tens of the same anecdotes that have been backed up by veterinary professionals, that makes it objectively factual data even if you don’t want to believe it. That’s the beauty about reality, you don’t have to believe it to be true.

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              You just say this every time anyone asks you for evidence, don’t you? Well, I’m glad you found more people to scream at.

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                It’s like you can’t even read, I get that you might be struggling given your obvious inadequacies but 99% of reading is comprehension and yours sucks.

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                Yeah, sorry you’ll have to log in over here instead of on your main account to follow me.

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                  You took that to mean I’m a hexbear user? No, I’m saying you act like all of them.