At first yes. But then you'd be zipping around it because it is soooo slooooow

36" tall, 2-ton creature

3 feet tall, 4000 pounds?

Humans are to cats as cars are to humans: similar difference in weight and size, similar (if not greater) danger—but we walk around them because we’re used to them and we think we can predict them well enough. And because we’re often going to the same places.

I once stepped directly in the middle of my cats back walking down stairs. Instead of putting my weight down I fell backward, landing on my elbow a couple stairs down. All my weight. It took months to be able to lean on my elbow without pain. Pretty sure it was fractured.

It's not your home.

It's the cat's home.

You are its servant and caretaker, and it is training you.

They are being careful. They're just so much more agile than you.

• 36 inches is about the height of a human 2 year old.
• Assuming average weight of a 2 year old is 30lbs.
• Assuming average body mass density is the same as water (1g/cm^3 ).

Then average volume of a 2 year old is:

(30lbs * 453.5924g/lbs) * cm^3 /1g = 13607.772cm^3

• Assuming volume is constant, but weight increased to 2 US tons

Then final creature density is:

(2 * 2000lbs * 453.5924g/lbs) / 13607.772cm^3 = 133.333...g/cm^3

That is about 6 times denser than the heaviest measured element and a little over half the density of the solar core.

I sincerely hope my math is right, but this is a shitpost and I didn't have paper so :shrug_emoji_1:

You wouldn't be tempted to rub yourself against its leg?

Your cats are trying to kill you.

" inches - two syllables ' feet - one syllable

If your species showed affection by rubbing against others and you trusted the creature not to step on you, and you were trying to act all sweet to beg for food tho...

This is why my chickens terrify me. They used to be 25 feet tall, just a handful of dozens of million years ago.

Fucking murder machines.

Square-cube law, mate. Cats are far stronger per gram than us. It would be more like us living with a 3 meter orc that weighed 500kg. Not great, but not terrible. I'll run the numbers and get back to you.

For a real answer, they’re claiming the space. They’re demonstrating that they can control it and you

My cat is always trying to trip me. Then again, she looks and acts like one of her parents was an African wildcat straight from the savanna. Even when she’s being purry and cuddly laying in my nook, she keeps trying to lovingly bite my face off and when I play with her, she does backflips several feet into the air trying to catch whatever toy I’m animating for her. Little creature is half wild!

Cats are reeeal dumb animals, but people think they are smart because they are pretty.

Because they trust us to not step on them. They see that we try to avoid them, and so, of course we won't hurt them!

Smart but not quite smart enough to realize accidents happen lol.

They do seem to know if someone is disabled though and tend to either run faster (to clear the person's path faster) or give a wider birth from what I've seen. They have to be near the human for awhile to realize though, that's a learning curve for them.

Have you tried asking your cats? If they don't respond, just ask nicer.

Because you're a good person and prefer to fall on your face to accidentally kicking your cats. If you were to give them a kick each time they cut you off, they'd learn to keep their distance.

Because the cats are strong enough to rip a few holes in that being. Not strong enough to lift, but enough to shrug off any accidents.

they trust that I won't waffle stomp them.

their trust is misplaced.

Because the scale matters

Multiply the numbers by 100 again and imagine a kick

What is 36 feet in (centi)meters?