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No to Fake Meat

Secret Chief

Secret Chief

Degrow!
Nakosis said:
5 Things Your Cat Can Do Better Than you
Sleeping

Other than hibernating species, surely no other animal can beat the ability of the cat to snooze the day away. While we humans may spend a third of our lives in a recumbent snoozing state, cats may spend three-quarters of their life sleeping and dreaming. This helps them retain energy for other important duties – like eating or pouncing and playing on unsuspecting owners!

Your cat may be dreaming as it sleeps. You will see it twitch and move as it dreams. Or it may sleep with one ear tuned in to your movements, ready to be awakened and interact with a toy or its food bowl. No wonder we call it catnapping!

Pouncing

Cats are natural pouncers and jumpers. With streamlined bodies, flexible spines, powerful legs and effective claws developed to hunt in the wild, your cat can scale walls and fences or jump onto your bench tops at home or perhaps even your ankles when you least expect an attack!

Cats can jump tremendous heights and also leap great divides - much greater distances, relative to our respective sizes, than any human high or long jumper. This ability enables them to move swiftly with maximum effect. They cannot sustain lengthy runs, but they can attack at a moment’s notice.

Hearing

Cats can hear noises in the ultrasound range. While we hear up to around 23 KHz, cats hear up to around 85 KHz, the sounds that rats and mice make. Instead of hunting these days, they are much more likely to recognize the sounds of the cat food tin opening or the rattling of the biscuit container!

Cats have 32 muscles in each ear, enabling them to move their ears in any direction and each ear independently of the other. Humans have 3 muscles in their ears. We can barely move our ears at all.

Seeing in the dark

While owners struggle to navigate their house and yard overnight, cats are at one with their nocturnal surroundings. With their ability to dilate their pupils and a reflective layer – the tapetum – which concentrates light, cats are adept at nighttime vision and activity. This is one reason they will gladly wake you at any opportunity!

Flirting

You may think that you are captivating, but your cat is so much more skilled at getting your attention - on their terms! They rub up against you; they drop to the floor and roll; they wink at you; they purr and meow – all to get your attention. While, at times, your cat may seem to ignore you, you are indeed special to your cat, and they want to show you their love and affection. Sometimes it comes with a tooth and claw attack and sometimes with a smooch and purr. That’s life with a cat.
Cats vs Humans: The Differences - Purina

And, they didn't even mention the butt licking...
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Don't forget judging. :joycat:
 
Kathryn

Kathryn

It was on fire when I laid down on it.
Ignatius A said:
Yeah and? Anyone that has their cat or dog as their emergency plan to get help is more than likely not going to make it. My heart surgeon told me if he cant finish my operation I dont need to worry, because his cat is ready to run 5 miles to get help. LMBO
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Your cat probably wouldn't but I bet a person would.
 
Subduction Zone

Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
Kathryn said:
But then someone went on to post about birds, which aren't even mammals. Maybe it was you, I don't know and am disinclined to go back through these absurd posts to try to find it. Anyway, I don't recall you dissenting.
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Okay, humans are the key winners when it comes to intelligence, but that does not automatically make us "better than other animals". By that standard how many people here would admit that others were "better" than them if they outscored them on an intelligence test. Intelligence is the one clear advantage that humans have as an animal.

Now birds . . . Birds are very interesting. They appear to do quite a lot with less when it comes to a brain. Crows will remember individual humans, they can solve problems. They can make their own tools. Are they on par with us? Not even close. But they show that their are various factors that one has to appreciate when even judging intelligence.
 
Secret Chief

Secret Chief

Degrow!
Kathryn said:
Your cat probably wouldn't
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It's beneath them.

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Kathryn

Kathryn

It was on fire when I laid down on it.
Nakosis said:
To be a superior being, you simply must have dogs.
A human being without dogs is simply not on par with a person who does.
Easily fixable though. Get a dog and join the elite.
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I've had dogs most of my life, just not right now. I had to put both my very old dogs down within the past coupla years so the wounds are still pretty fresh. Plus I have no fenced yard. I want a fenced yard.
 
Subduction Zone

Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
Kathryn said:
Thanks. It was really tough. I wonder if my dogs knew. They were also one of the very last links to my late husband. They were like the only kids we ever had.
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My brother just had a similar experience. His wife passed this year from cancer and far too soon after that one of their dogs died. They knew that it was in bad health and it was especially traumatic for a nephew because he was carrying the dog in when it died. No fun having both huge medical and veterinary bills at the same time either.
 
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