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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Why is my human slave not moving my stuff to different rooms according to my set schedule? Why do I, a god, have to do it myself? Bastet, take note of this great insubordination! "

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The screaming could also mean:

"I have been up all night watching these babies and I am exhausted! Not one of them was hungry! I need some me time with my face in the catnip plant. Someone watch them while I'm passed out... and no more catnip for the babies! They all still smell like catnip from the last time you looked after them."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I have a friend who is a college professor. He said that he has on more than one occasion called his class churlish.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago (3 children)

She wants to have babies. Cat mothers carry their offspring around.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In a "I'm horny" way or in a "I'm suffering" way?

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago

Is there a difference?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Probably in more of a "Everything I'm evolved for tells me that I should have babies but I don't" way.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a male cat that loves to sing when he's got a toy in his mouth

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Same here. Our tabby (boy) will fetch his mouse and yell/squeak about it. We think he thinks he sounds fierce.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Probably her motherly instincts just kick in. So toys are babies. The cat is probably sterilized.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My 19 year old cat does this "scream" when we give her people-food. She carries it up to the sofa she lives on and screams. Apparently it's because she's "proud of her kill" and wants to show it off, but i think she's saying "Thanks human, we share"

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

She thinks of the toys as her babies. Do they squeak? That can often trigger that reaction from female cats.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If I'm chronically intoxicated by cats, does that make me catholic?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Toxoplasmosis makes you Catholic?
I knew those bastards were lying about the rite of baptism! Now I know what's in that holy water: cat piss.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Only if you believe in Saint Cathol

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cat-haul-icism?

Caterwaul-icism?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Some flavor of meownotheism, yes

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

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X post by Zack Morrison @paranaturalzack: every morning our cat moves her toys from the bedroom to the living room while screaming, and every night she moves them back, also while screaming. i don't know the purpose of the ritual but it is the central pillar of my faith.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

@Facelikeapotato horniness makes the cat goes weird.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I hear that. Cat works in mysterious ways.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Upvote for the title. Also, cats!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I’m not religious… But this may change my mind……

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

My dog has a similar ritual where he patiently watches me put all the toys away then one by one retrieves them and makes me play with it.

I'm not sure of the purpose of this ritual but it is the central pillar of my rapidly developing mental breakdown.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

hehe screaming