I was reading this article Sorry, But Your Cat Is Actually A Total Jerk. Its Just Science. and there are so many points I disagree with, I am going to type them out blow by blow. It might be based on science, but I think they are forcing them own opinion and motivations on the conclusions they are drawing. By browser crashed half way through writing this, so here we go again from the top... Mum doesnt keep me because she expects constant gratification from me. She keeps me because she made me promises when I was a kitten and she cares for me very deeply. It doesnt matter one bit about what I think of her. That is the definition of unconditional love. I am not a whore that provides affection and amusement in return for food and shelter. When Mum calls me, sometimes I respond, sometimes I dont. So what? Do your kids respond to you every time you call them? Or do they sometimes ignore you, because they are busy doing something they would rather do? If the human has been out for a while and she calls me, I will come running and shouting ecstatic to see her. If I go outside, which I dont very often, so I am very pleased to get out, if my human calls me I come running. Even if I have only been out 30 seconds and would rather be outside. The study says that 70% of cats perk up their ears, so they recognise their humans voice, but only 10% meow back or move their tails. What a strange way of measuring a response. Why is moving ones tail more relevant that perking up ones ears for crying out loud? What a weird thing to say. Plus, I do meow back. Especially if the human makes the effort to meow at me and not speak English. Sometimes I am in the mood for a cuddle. Sometimes I am not. Would you like it if someone touched you all the time without your permission? No. I think you might even call the police. How can you say that all cats are good for cuddling. That is beyond evil. Cats only rub against you because they think they own you. Right, and thats a bad thing because? It seems to be that humans think they own their cats too. How many times have you heard a human say, my cat this or my cat that. Its mutual. Im tagging the human with my scent, just like the human tags me with a microchip or a collar. Why this should be shocking or unpleasant to anyone I have no idea. Dogs are smarter than cats because they are more social. Ever someone say, hey, that computer nerd is so social, they must be super good at programming. Or look, that girl has more friends than I can shake a stick at, she must be insanely good at maths. Not saying it doesnt happen, but social skills are hardly a sign of all round intelligence... moving on... They imply that being a cat lady is something socially unacceptable, stating that 80% of cat owners are women and that millionaires are more likely to own dogs. What is this relevant to? I dont even know what they are trying to prove with this point, other than just being derogatory for the sake of it. I am not even sure how it related to their own article title of cats being jerks. Thats again, a slight on the owners. I found it beyond amusing they said If you die alone with your cat, it wont hesitate to eat you. Thats an oxymoron. If Mum died alone, then she wouldnt have had me with her to eat her. Else she wouldnt have been alone... Ignoring the stupidity of that statement aside and taking it face value, if Mum died and there was no one there to feed me, she would want me to eat her. She would want me to live and be healthy and if that meant eating her then so be it. She wouldnt want me to starve to death because there was no one there to feed me. She would be honored if I wanted to eat her. I know because I checked with her. So cats arent nice because they cant taste sugar, which makes them prefer to eat meat. Could that be because they have no nutritional need to eat anything that isnt meat? Just perhaps? Maybe? What function would being able to taste sugar serve them? Cats are trying to remind people what terrible hunters they are? I think that is projection human emotion on the behavior of cats. But while we are on the topic, humans are terrible hunters. Thats why they need to farm meat and be so far removed from the slaughtering on it. Really who is weird, us for hunting, or them or eating and not being able to kill? Your cat makes you clean up toxic poop referring to toxoplasmosis. My human see this as a bonus. She is not the most socially enabled person. One of the side effects of toxoplasmosis is it makes a person more docile. A blessing for her. For most people this toxin doesnt cause any other symptoms and most people are not aware they even have it. A lot of people pay good money to get medication that has this affect. They say the toxoplasmosis parasite re-wires the brain to make women collect more cats. Because it can only re-produce in the digestive tract of a cat and even makes humans love the smell of cat urine (they say this has happened to rats in studies. And we all know that rats and humans are the same(!)). What absolute bloody rot. Mum has no plans to get more cats, she wants to focus on me. And I have never seen her smelling my kitty litter or rubbing litter all over her because she loves the smell so much. Cats wash themselves after being touched by humans, because they think humans stink. Again, this is shocking because? Dont humans wash their hands after they have touched cats because they think they are dirty? Especially before eating? Shock horror! Another thing that is mutual. I think a better title for this article would be Cats and humans have a lot in common about the way they think about each other. But we felt like trying to shock you with facts you already knew! huffingtonpost/2014/01/07/cats-facts-jerks_n_4520552.html
Posted on: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 21:17:40 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015