Where do y'all keep finding all these cats that suck
Ours are fucking stoked to see us and a lot of fun.
If your cat doesn’t have a undertone of “probably has satan on speed dial” your cat is doing a fantastic job of hiding their true nature and you need to be concerned for your safety because that cat has a mission.
I get it's a joke, but I hear it so much, it makes me question what some of y'all are doing to your cats that this is the go-to joke.
I've owned a lot of cats, as have my friends and family. They're all chill, and most open to affection. It's very rare to find one of these "Satan" cats. I legitimately can't keep my cats off me. I almost wish they hated me sometimes because their constant badgering for pets can get a little annoying.
Depends on how they were trained, if they aren't actively used to lots of human touch early on the default mode for cats is "pets on my schedule, if I feel like it".
I don't... think it's bad? Such cats aren't unhappy or evil, they just don't crave affection which kinda makes sense for a barely domesticated species whose wild counterpart is non-social. Raising a cat to be cuddly definitely goes against its innate instincts.
I have one of each, both black female cats.
The first is an absolute angel. I've literally never seen her hiss, bite, or claw at another living being. Not even a bug. When she's walking on shelves or dressers, she's super careful not to knock anything over, and she never tries to steal food (but she will go for a sniff at an acceptable distance). She gets so excited to see me when I get home that she drools when I pet her.
Then the newest one is an absolute coin toss. She flip-flops between being the sweet little angel that brings you her mouse asking to play fetch, and a spawn of Satan that will look you dead in the eyes as she knocks a full glass of water off of your nightstand.
Please tell both of them I adore them and that they are both very good at being cats!
Absolutely! ;3
I feel like Satan here is more like "yeah, and I made an even better one, pure darkness, pure joy"
One of my cats is one of the sweetest animals I have ever met and very affectionate.
The other cat is a complete and utter bitch. A living terror. She will lay in the middle of the floor waiting for you to walk by so she can swipe at your ankles with full claws out. She will pur and get all lovey for dinner, then she'll swipe at you as you put the bowl down, then pur while she eats.
Sounds like your monster cat would like more play time. I also have one of each of those, with added nibbling.
Oh I didn't mention, she does not care one bit about toys, she is a lounge around in the sun princess. Even a laser pointer gets a "are you fucking serious" look from her
Mine is more like "MOTHER FUCKER WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?! HOW DARE YOU LEAVE MY PRESENCE. NOW WITNESS MY BUTTHOLE CLEANSING!"
MEOW MEEEEEOWWWW meow licks butthole in the middle of the room
Great question - during the pandemic there were a lot of memes about how dogs are loving the humans being home all day, while cats were hating it. Our cats were glad to have us home all day (as was the dog, who kept demanding walks at odd times until he settled into the new routine).
When we get home from errands, the dog will of course be at the door - and there's about a 85% chance the one cat will be nearby, too. Another cat will often show up as well. (The third cat, never. He's too busy hiding.)
I had a pretty awesome cat who was fun and happy to see me, I’d still put him in that final panel though.
They don't suck. A lot of death metal bands don't suck but they just act a certain evil way. That's cats for the most part. I did have one that would come up to me, roll over and want a belly rub like a dog, but that's not the most typical experience.
Right? This whole “cats bad/evil/hellions/selfish” trope is boring and wrong. Like, how do you treat your cats? All of mine have been love bug, cuddle bug sweethearts. I’ve met some cats who are annoying mischief makers, but I think a lot of that depends on the people.
I know this is a joke, but a bad dog is so much more of a problem than a bad cat. (Not counting feral animals)
Bad cat: angry, wants you to leave them the fuck alone, scratches you at the slightest provocation
Bad dog: hyperactive or jumps all over you or barks at you, can seriously injure or kill you.
Our society takes for granted that you can take your dog anywhere (in Australia at least), and I don't think enough emphasis is placed on the fact if you can't 100% control your dog, don't bring it anywhere near people.
The number of people saying "oh he's friendly" as their dog scares someone afraid of dogs because they're jumping up on them is stupid.
This society values dogs more, and I just don't get it.
The number of people saying "oh he's friendly" as their dog scares someone afraid of dogs because they're jumping up on them is stupid.
This makes me angry, when it happens. I happen to be huge, and adore dogs, so I hide it well.
Folks with dogs that jump up on people, need to keep those dogs away from other people. Others didn't sign up to have an out of control animal jumping all over them. Doesn't matter if the animal is friendly or not.
Agreed. While I love dogs like crazy, and personally don't mind it (I'm big enough that it's not a problem), I only think it's OK if it's a puppy who isn't old enough to have learned yet... and even then they need to be trained, or they won't behave later.
I see "good" dogs constantly jumping on people, scratching them, biting their fingers when they get too happy, barking at anything and everyone, and being entirely unpredictable. I personally really dislike dogs and I have never found an owner that actually keeps their dog from jumping on me.
Dogs are not inherently good and most are very dangerous.
I don't have to be cautious with my infant around cats, but I definitely do around dogs.
I’d say their owners are terrible, though. The dogs might not be well disciplined, but that really isn’t their fault.
(Unless the dog is aggressive. Then it might be. It also probably shitty owners, too.)
You don't get to take credit for that. We've been selectively breeding dogs for 30,000 years to get them to where they are today!
Cats are only sort of domesticated, and they chose to do it. Mostly they stay with us for the benefits.
So what I'm hearing is, we Stockholm syndrome'd dogs into loving us, but cats chose to love us... So who offers the real unconditional love?
I think its more we've enslaved dogs and we hire cats on a freelance basis.
I like thinking about cats as my little contract worker. We have a great relationship, but as soon as I ask him to wear a tie or show up to meetings, I very curtly and loudly am reprimanded and reminded that at the end of the day, he. is. a. contractor. and to go fuck myself
We mostly just kept them around for the benefits as well! As agriculture took off, rats and mice became a problem, so we'd let cats hang around to take care of them. This was just a few thousand years ago, vs. the tens of thousands of years of selective breeding of wolves!
Yes, it was a mutually beneficial relationship. But while we've been breeding dogs for so long that they'll die for us, cats are much less obsequious.
You really gotta hand it to cats - they attached themselves to the dominant species on the planet. Smart! Dogs we chose to let live with us.
In the cat/human relationship, the jury is still out on which species domesticated the other...
We'll never know for sure, but just knowing how cats are today, I believe the hypothesis that they initiated it. The idea that people went out and brought in wild cats to keep down the rodent population doesn't seem as likely as cats going where the food is and people tolerating them because they killed the rodents (and the kittens being cute also probably helped).
I support the theory that it was the cats who started it. They are also only partially domesticated. When humans began farming grains the rodent population near them exploded. Cats who were less timid around humans got more rodents. Humans seeing the value of having cats fed the cats during times when the rodent population was low.
If you've ever been around feral barn cats this pattern is the same today. They are constantly on the edge of being wild/domesticated.
At least cats are never cops.
As I clicked on this "comic" my black cat tapped me with her paw for scritches. Now she will sit on my lap for a few hours until I have to inevitably get up. I feel bad for people who have this perception that cats are evil, I don't get it.
I agree. I know it's mostly just a meme, but still. I love cats and they're such sweet babies.
Hail Catan!
Trade sheep for wood!
Go fish (from your port)
ITT: Cat people getting upset at a dumb joke.
... Classic cat people I guess
Am a cat person, loved the joke. It is quite accurate.
I choose the hell demon spawn. I wonder what that says about me? Oh wait, no I don't.:-P
Dunno where it came about to associate cats with evil but they mustve been severely butthurt and drunk to reach that conclusion
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