Saw this last night while checking out at the supermarket.
Now I’m wondering if I should have grabbed a copy. We don’t have a cat and have never had a cat, but what mysteries lie on those pages?
Saw this last night while checking out at the supermarket.
Now I’m wondering if I should have grabbed a copy. We don’t have a cat and have never had a cat, but what mysteries lie on those pages?
My big ragdoll girl is thinking about FOOD, snuggles, and ear rubs. Oh and she is also thinking I should never leave the house when she is awake. 
In reply to clutchsmoke :
Our dog, currently snoring behind me, has similar thoughts.
My demise, probably.
And maybe that squirrel that keeps showing up in the bird feeder.
There's a bunch of really groundbreaking neuroscience going on where people have been able to tap into some of the brain's electrical signals, and using some pretty sophisticated tools, reproduce an image or sounds that are being heard in real time. The visual processing study, if I remember correctly, was done on a cat (actually, this was back in 1999). The audio study is more recent (2023), but the cat story was more interesting to me because it was a window into the mind of another animal.
What is the cat thinking? I have no idea. But what is it seeing? We can kind of answer that.
Judging by the dead rats and mice I find, mine wakes up every morning and chooses violence.
Hydie is thinking of murder:
Akira is thinking FOOD:
Ours was a misanthropic, shiny happy person. We finally rehomed at the end of 2023 because he wouldn't quit swatting the dogs and kept getting more and more aggressive to the point he was drawing blood fairly consistently.
We had a mouse problem a few years ago after a big ice storm left lots of trees and debris piles in the neighborhood for a few months waiting for the city to pick them up. When he got one he would just toy with it for a really long time before finally ending it's suffering.
We have four in the house and two in the shop, so six total and none of them are alike. Each one has a unique and interesting personality. But mostly they think about eating, sleeping, getting attention, and killing stuff. The percentages of each is what separates them.
I'm not entirely certain Eloise has thoughts.
At 3:am the cat would jump on the bed, start that plaintively whining meow they have, and put out the alert that he can see the bottom of his food dish.
Oh, the Horror!
In reply to stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) :
As far as cats are concerned, there is no food without murder. And they like it that way.
Bob Costas
In reply to Driven5 :
The only problem with those memes is that cats look at you as staff, not the authorities. The sentiment is correct.
jgrewe said:In reply to Driven5 :
The only problem with those memes is that cats look at you as staff, not the authorities. The sentiment is correct.
And a certain amount of disdain.
All the adorable funny things your cat does, is it practicing murder.
I have Maine Coons. Probably how to take over the world.
I have five Maine Coons. Probably how to take over the world. Or squirrels.
The cat had the upstairs and the dog has the downstairs, and they no longer cross paths.
Our cat spends most of his time wondering when someone will come upstairs so he can eat. It's not that he doesn't have food, he just won't eat unless someone is in the bedroom.
The dog just want to stay near us, unless it's dinner time, then she wants to be fed.
No Time said:
OMG. Our dog loves to sit on couch backs exactly like this. It drives my wife nuts.
XLR99 (Forum Supporter) said:
Forgot Squirrel in both brains.
Streetwiseguy said:In reply to stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) :
As far as cats are concerned, there is no food without murder. And they like it that way.
Both the cats are on automatic feeders that open at 6am. Akira starts yelling at 4am. She has to let us know that it's almost breakfast time.
Hydie just silently contemplates burning the house down.
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