“This cat is awful, but I’ll keep it around because it knows how to open the food stones.”

Uh oh!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDcZ-y3XMk4

My personal pet idea

Heh

I think the difference between cats and dogs is mainly tens of thousands of additional years of co-operative evolution. Cats are amazing but dogs you can almost assume can understand your emotions and care, that comes from the absurd length of time dogs and humans have been friends, it is a relationship that far predates other domestication by an immense length of time.

That's it, you're part of my pack now!

It’s because the other cats might actually be a threat, whereas the furless elongated ones are just terribly incompetent.

Cats have a completely different language when interacting with humans. They mostly just meow around us

My favourit scientivic fact is that tiktok i saw some kid made and is the only source of that fact.

"observational maybe"

Ancient Egyptians: That cat makes a great point.

House dust mite: I poop on your face while you sleep.

It's based on way too many reinterpretations of descriptions of studies into how cats communicate. Basically cats without human interaction will only meow as kittens communicating to their mom and their mother might meow back, and as they grow older they will learn to communicate with each other purely by body language and pheramones. Cats who interact with humans have learned that meowing at us like kittens gets our attention and is effective at communicating with us.

Some have interpreted that to mean cats see us as really strange kittens, which of course gets miscommunicated by well meaning people repeating something they half-remember. It seems the reality is just cats have learned to adjust their behavior to better coexist with humans.

Impressively, cats and their humans also will develop complex enough communication that humans can interpret the need of the cat purely from their meow

At least this is my memory of research I half-remember reading about

On scientific level, dogs is a herd animal, which need a leader, cats don't know leaders, they a single hunters, they can create asociations with other cats if it have advantages to obtain food, leader or boss are not in their vocabulary. Human can be a good friend but not more, if not, he's only the tin opener. As said, cats are almost the exact opposite of dogs, even in their body lenguage.

Dogs own us Cats are prisoners

Creepy smooth tongue

Because amongst cats grooming is a show of dominance.

You're not good at licking them it seems

My dog gives me stuff all the time. At first I thought it meant he wanted to play with the object, but, nope. He's just spent the last fifteen minutes fighting the other dog away from it, running around the house with it in his mouth. Then when he's finally "won", he gently places it down right in front of me, sits and stares at my eyes, "This is very important to us dogs, but I love you the most, so you can have it."

picks up slobbered cow hoof with a pinch "Thank you so much, buddy! How about I hold it, you can chew; we can share."

He does do this with the other dog at times too, though. Usually when she's calmed down and snoozing, he'll bring a treat over to her, watch her accept it, and goes on his way.

Gifting is his love language.

"I take care of my human. I bring them mouse once a week, twice after new moon because so dark. Hope they survive on that."

My cat played fetch, just like a dog. Cats like playing.

I hate it when people just assume stuff about cats, treat them that way, and then say stuff like 'cats are so aloof and they only like me because I feed them.'

Meanwhile, my neighbour's cat loves my family even though we don't feed her, because we snuggle her. The person who feeds her just chucks her outside when she gets home. And then she comes to us for scritches.

My cat sometimes brings toys because it wants to play. That doesn't happen too often, though

Sure, the cat that gets fed daily by us and even begs us for food thinks we suck at hunting and feeding ourselves...

It is such a dumb take.

Ive seen a dog hump inanimate objects so I don't think thats a great gauge.

You clearly weren't interacting with horny cats.

Cats have standards.

My cat hates every other cat it meets, but loves every person it meets. I think it knows the difference.

That anecdote presents an opposite case.

Your leg breeding your cat? Im confused

cats are just basically asexual outside of mating season afaik, whereas either wolves already don't have a specific mating seasons or dogs just inherited our lack of one..

it's one of my favourite things about cats, you almost never have to worry about petting them in the wrong place (you know, provided the cat trusts you) nor do you have to worry about a red rocket sighting

I have 2 cats. One of them meows at people, cats, dogs, birds, butterflies, toys...

The other only meows when she's suffering horrible torture, like being picked up, or needing to scratch at the door the times without it opening.

Cats meow at other cats besides their mother too. It's a complete myth that they don't.

I kind of am judging. Misrepresenting how science works and what it can and can't do ia a dangerous game on the age of intentional misinformation. Even if you're just trying to be cute and fun.

I'm not backing the take itself, as other said it is widely extrapolation, but i don't really understand how the fact that cats meowing only/mostly at their mom and humans would invalidate the theory that humans and cats are the same category in cats' minds, since they use it for both cats and humans. It could indicate that they consider humans kinda like parents cats or just parents, maybe, but i don't see how it indicates that they could consider humans as non cats.

Cats have great singing voices especially when humans are asleep. Do cats sing for humans? Maybe they sing because they love opera?

i mean chimps just kinda generally suck, i'd wager if you look at bonobos instead they'll beat the dog in empathy.

It's like chimps and bonobos are prototype humans, chimps are too violent and bonobos are too busy fucking each other at all times, and god finally got something more balanced when nudging humans into existence

Correct - cats don't "think", they know. An infalliblity of thought obtained through the kind of instinctual perfection which only cats are enlightened enough to possess.

Then why did you?

Do you even understand the word "think"?