I don't know how many times Geniac and I have talked about this.
One of my kitties, Iggy, needed major eye surgery a couple years ago, and I moved into the "sick room" to keep him company for the nearly 3 months it took him to heal. My husband mostly stayed downstairs with the other kitties.
One of my other kitties, Zuma, was very jealous. She was used to sleeping on or beside me, and I wasn't there for her anymore. When she was permitted to come into the room to visit, she passed a clean litterbox, climbed over my husband, crawled onto me and peed all over me. I truly think it was pay back!
We've noticed that sometimes the cats have a preference for who is going to pet them. If they just dumbly wanted petted, either one of us should do, no? But it's not the case. When my little Bobby-girl had an bad cold, you could tell that she felt so miserable. She is not a cat that generally likes to be held. When she was sick, though, all she wanted was for me to hold her. Poor Geniac was not acceptable. It had to be me.
I could go on and on...but...yeah, I agree with you!
One of my kitties, Iggy, needed major eye surgery a couple years ago, and I moved into the "sick room" to keep him company for the nearly 3 months it took him to heal. My husband mostly stayed downstairs with the other kitties.
One of my other kitties, Zuma, was very jealous. She was used to sleeping on or beside me, and I wasn't there for her anymore. When she was permitted to come into the room to visit, she passed a clean litterbox, climbed over my husband, crawled onto me and peed all over me. I truly think it was pay back!
We've noticed that sometimes the cats have a preference for who is going to pet them. If they just dumbly wanted petted, either one of us should do, no? But it's not the case. When my little Bobby-girl had an bad cold, you could tell that she felt so miserable. She is not a cat that generally likes to be held. When she was sick, though, all she wanted was for me to hold her. Poor Geniac was not acceptable. It had to be me.
I could go on and on...but...yeah, I agree with you!
The bottom line is animals have complex, dynamic and unique personalities with motives and feelings of their own. They lack our intellectual and verbal development for understanding and expressing them, but that doesn't make the motives and feelings any less real.
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Last First in wotmania Chat
Slightly better than chocolate.
Love still can't be coerced.
Please Don't Eat the Newbies!
LoL. Be well, RAFOlk.
Last First in wotmania Chat
Slightly better than chocolate.
Love still can't be coerced.
Please Don't Eat the Newbies!
LoL. Be well, RAFOlk.
Horny Turtle Humping Shoe
- 13/09/2009 02:02:51 AM
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I bet he didn't even call that shoe the next day.
- 13/09/2009 04:11:45 AM
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- 13/09/2009 04:11:45 AM
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coming from the species famous for "mating" with their hands 
- 13/09/2009 04:23:11 AM
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- 13/09/2009 04:23:11 AM
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But supposedly humans are the only ones who do it for pleasure.... 
- 13/09/2009 04:30:10 AM
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- 13/09/2009 04:30:10 AM
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okay that is so NONSENSE
- 13/09/2009 04:52:49 AM
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Hey, I don't believe it either, just sniping at "animals aren't advanced enough to have feelings. "
- 13/09/2009 05:24:35 AM
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Eh.
- 13/09/2009 09:59:46 AM
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I'm not saying they're as developed as humans, but they aren't just machines either.
- 13/09/2009 10:10:14 AM
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Re: I'm not saying they're as developed as humans, but they aren't just machines either.
- 13/09/2009 06:55:50 PM
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All empirical evidence is ultimately anecdotal.
- 14/09/2009 08:50:32 AM
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Well, didn't take you long to render your argument unfalsifiable.
- 14/09/2009 09:08:50 AM
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