i hate self identified “nerds” because they give their cats shit names like Sherlock, or Katniss, instead of proper cat names like Weed, or Dirt Man, or 2018 Ford F-150 Supercrew
there have been 2 distinct types of responses in the tags of this post that I would like to address
1. A Human name is a good cat name so long as it is a very common and boring one, ex. “what the fuck sharon why did you step in my cereal you’re so fucking fat”
2. If you give your actual real life pet cat a Warrior Cats name im afraid of your raw power
These are the sorts of noises cats use to communicate with each other. Hear how it’s soft and fairly high-pitched? The loud “meow” noises we’re used to as cat noises are the noises they came up with to communicate with us, we’re almost deaf compared to them. Those noises also tend to resemble human babies- we accidentally selected them for that by favoring the ‘cuter’ sounding ones, i.e. the baby-sounding ones.
Listen, I love our cat Wonka, but there’s no denying he is a Screamy Boi.
This is partly because he is deaf so just doesn’t know his own volume, but also partly because he is not, in fact, super duper clever. We are talking about a cat who used to be very angry at his reflection in mirrors before he figured out what they were, and subsequently used to hiss and spit at posters with other cats in them, but never the ginger cats. I wondered if he thought the other ginger cats were his reflection.
But our cat Wonka has Opinions and he doesn’t hesitate to voice them, loudly, at any and all opportunities. He is capable of an impressive amount of noise when vexed.
When I was working full time in emergency, we suddenly needed a cat blood donor. You can’t store cat blood in bags ready for use like you can with dog blood or human blood, so you have to bleed them fresh each time. It’s also kinda of dangerous because you’re taking a fair amount of blood from a relatively small animal, so we routinely put donating cats on intravenous fluids to keep their blood pressure up.
I had worked the night shift so my intention was to drop my screamy cat back at the clinic, then sleep for a few hours.
I pity the vets that had to handle him.
When I returned in the evening to collect him, I had two nurses help restrain him so I could unwrap the catheter from his leg.
He screamed like you wouldn’t believe. He wailed and thrashed and moaned like some sort of devil cat in the midst of a murder.
He screamed so loud and with such emotion that the entire emergency vet clinic stopped what they were doing and rushed into the treatment room to help. The surgical nurses came in, the surgeon paged through to the room, clients in the waiting room with real, sick and urgent cases insisted they could wait until we’d ‘saved’ the creature in the midst of its death wails. His screams brought the entire emergency clinic to a standstill.
Obviously I want you to take care of your pets and make sure they get food and fresh water on a regular basis, but cats being huge drama queens and screaming hysterically at you and acting like they’re tragic famine victims who haven’t eaten in weeks and are about to drop dead from starvation right mcfuckin now, because you’re 10 minutes late feeding them is always going to be one of the funniest things to me
the cat who lives at the vet clinic i volunteer at was mad yesterday because his dinner was half an hour late due to a busy day. he proceeded to go to all the (empty dw) garbage cans and tried to knock them over and started desperately scavenging for scraps of food because obviously no one loves him or cares about him and if he must eat garbage to survive then so be it
not food related, but one time my cat cried at me for 20 minutes before i worked out that the reason why she was upset was because there was a coat hanger on her favourite cushion
This is absolutely beautiful and changed my life, thank you so much. Please protect her from hangers at all costs
wow. am STORVING and humaines here making joke laugh at cate honger ?!
My cat is a social eater who is not food motivated at all, so I was baffled when I first got him because he didn’t seem to care about food but he would SCREAM at me for hours when I knew his bowl was full. Any time I went to double check that he did indeed have food, he’d book it to the bowl and snarf like his life depended on it, but as soon as I walked away he’d follow me screaming again.
Eventually I figured out that he just wanted a dining companion and was screaming about how we’re a family and families eat together, god damnit! I moved his food bowl under my computer desk and it fixed the problem. But if I’m ever out for more than 12 hours I’ll come home to find him in a passive-aggressive kitty huff because dinner has been ready for hours but he’s been trying to be considerate (unlike some humans) and waiting for me to eat it.
My cats are indoor cats. Being indoor cats, they can’t go outside to hunt for food (mice, rats, birds, etc) to gift to my sister and I.
But they know that the kitchen has food. They know where the easily accessible cat food is. And obviously my sister and I are just Really Big Stupid Hairless cats.
So if my sister and I go without leaving our rooms for too long? My cats will sit outside our doors and scream for our attention, lead us to their food bowls, and then only stop the screaming and leading once they see us sit down at the table and eat something. Because they think we’re hungry.
Your cats are the sweetest beings on the Earth, it makes my heart warm knowing that they exist. They love you very much and they care so much, they want you healthy and happy and will make sure you don’t neglect yourself and oh god they are so perfect. Real pure love exists, I am happy to be alive today.
every time I reblog this my sister sends me a message to the effect of “thank u for reposting that cat video on your tumblr i have seen it so many times but it delights me every time because their paws are so gentle and graceful”
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