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Hey!
If you're some guy, and you're thinking of knocking on my door at 11 o'clock in the morning with the hopes of someone answering it...
Let me urge you to rethink that.
Sometimes it's nicer than i let on to have a big sounding and big barking dog lurking around.
And while we're on the subject of animals, let me tell you all something. I should really be posting this in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
kittypix but I hear those people are maniacs!
Cats do not love us, no matter how much we may love them. I did a series on this a few months back, but can't be bothered to dig it up for you. I just laugh because I adore my cats, and think of them as my "children", yet people project emotions onto my cats that simply don't exist. Example:
Cat jumps up on persons lap. Person says "oh, your cat must LIKE me"
No, the cats likes to be petted, and has noticed that you have arms.
Cat rubs face against person. Person says "oh, your cat is so affectionate and freindly with me"
Look, now the cat is being affectionate and freindly to the shelf, now the sock...etc.
Let me just remind everyone that cats ahve been known to kill babies. And if you die with your cats in the apartment, they will eat you. As much as I am annoyed by most dogs, dog will not eat you, they will keep strangers from touching you for as long as they can.
Should animals be treated as well as people? Whenever possible.
Are they really "equal" to people? I have to say no.
Let me urge you to rethink that.
Sometimes it's nicer than i let on to have a big sounding and big barking dog lurking around.
And while we're on the subject of animals, let me tell you all something. I should really be posting this in
kittypix but I hear those people are maniacs!Cats do not love us, no matter how much we may love them. I did a series on this a few months back, but can't be bothered to dig it up for you. I just laugh because I adore my cats, and think of them as my "children", yet people project emotions onto my cats that simply don't exist. Example:
Cat jumps up on persons lap. Person says "oh, your cat must LIKE me"
No, the cats likes to be petted, and has noticed that you have arms.
Cat rubs face against person. Person says "oh, your cat is so affectionate and freindly with me"
Look, now the cat is being affectionate and freindly to the shelf, now the sock...etc.
Let me just remind everyone that cats ahve been known to kill babies. And if you die with your cats in the apartment, they will eat you. As much as I am annoyed by most dogs, dog will not eat you, they will keep strangers from touching you for as long as they can.
Should animals be treated as well as people? Whenever possible.
Are they really "equal" to people? I have to say no.
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I am bad with the whole "projecting feelings on animals"I do that with all my pets...my pets must think I am nuts.
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I got over it when i embraced paganism though.
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I and I am sure others are glad your werent suffocated!!!
Horay for paganism!
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And Hooray for Bast!
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*chuckles*
My friend Boris the cat will talk to me for 10 minutes & beg like a dog.
So, from what you're saying, that's attention, not affection.
I'm not so sure, I mean, you can construe such actions as love.
To us it's attention, but maybe in thier little heads, it's affection.
And, I just can't believe that my cats would eat me if I died.
Case in point..
I had a friend who passed away, and remained undiscovered for a couple days.
Her cat was so traumatized that he couldn't be moved from under the bed.
There was no post-mordem munching that I know of.
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As far as equality, I don't know how anyone could answer yes to your question. You (and many people) use the word "equal" in a way I can't quite grasp.
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I should.
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(http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/catsuck.htm)
I hate when people don't let their cats be cats and assume them to think like humans. For example, I saw someone on LJ vent about her 'evil' cat who kept running around by night making noise and waking their baby up. This idiot had tried to tell the cat, verbally, that it was very very evil and when the cat didn't stop its nightly activities that kept waking the baby up she decided to lock it out of the house every night. The cat basically howled behind the front door all night every night after that which annoyed her too and then she decided to have it put to sleep. Not surprisingly this idiot of a woman was also fluffy bunny wiccan and believed in the familiar thing. Like, you can just talk to your cat and it understands as well as a human does but there's an added bonus of having it help you with your magick. *rolls eyes*
When a cat rubs itself against your leg the way it rubs itself against furniture and you think it's affection you're uninformed in the subject of feline behaviour. But if you mistake the way a coon snuggles, pets and hugs its human as the same thing as marking a stranger that's pretty laughable too. Around Xmas I saw a tv programme where a few animal behaviour experts were discussing animal rights. One of them trained animals for movies and commercials, one was a philophist and one some sorta scientist (dunno what they're called in English =)). All of them believed that cats experience sorrow, affection etc and all of them had research to present about it. I dunno how one could not believe when they witness a cat turn apathetic, lose appetite and die within two months after their human passes away, for example. [when everything else is good, just the one person from their life is missing]
Of course one can ponder what kind of emotions animals have exactly and how, say, a cat's affection differs from that of a human. But I have no interest in that myself. And of course you can question if it is indeed affection at all and not just being conditioned to react X way to X. But you may as well question whether a human's affection is affection at all and how you define affection in the first place and is this keyboard really real and blah. ;-P
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For whatever reason, i beleived it without question. I don't know that the cats "intention" as to cause harm; my cats climb on my chest while I'm sleeping now...
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As for your case? If that happened, then I'm betting kitty was checking you out. Kitties probably don't go, "hey, I weigh about as much as this baby does. Maybe sitting on his/her chest/face wll HURT the child." because I don't think kitties understand that. So if an animal suffocated a baby it was probably by accident.
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Apparantly, they will climb onto your head while you are sleeping, and cover your mouth. Babies suffocate. I've never heard of of it really happening, except to Wednes. So I've been looking around a little bit. Here's what I've found
"Cats Will Not Suck the Breath Out of Babies
An old wives' tale has promoted the misconception that cats will smother a baby if allowed to sleep in the crib. This was probably created in response to the fact that cats seek out warm, comfortable places and like to curl up to you—or children—at night. In addition, cats were often blamed as culprits before people knew about the condition of sleep apnea or sudden infant death syndrom (SIDS).
The commonsense response to this myth is to prevent kitty from access to the baby's room for the sake of cleanliness and quiet. If you would like to keep the nursery door open, simply install an inexpensive screen door, and leave the wooden door open. Not only does this provide air circulation, it allow parents to hear baby, while at the same time keeping pets out of the nursery. "
"Cats love warmth, particularly body heat. They will often curl up in a person's lap or lay next to a person while they sleep to be near that body heat. If given the chance, they will also crawl into a baby's crib and curl up next to the sleeping baby. Unfortunately, because babies are small and do not have the ability to push the cat away, this can lead to their being suffocated by the cat. Long ago when people were far more influenced by superstition, cats were believed to be agents of the devil; when a people saw a cat cuddling up to their baby, they believed that the cat was intentionally trying to suffocate the baby, or "steal its breath"."
So it looks like it can happen, as the cats like getting by warm things, but it also sounds very uncommon, and unintentional.
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I am not sure that cats "try" to kill babies, since i dont' think they feel hate any more than they expereince love.
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It's also possible that a baby could choke themselves between the crib bars. Doesn't happen very often, and so long as you take the regular precautions, it's very unlikely to happen. Similarly, though training cats is very difficult, you can take measures to keep them away from a baby. Like if it's acting like it may cuddle up to the baby in the crib, you can encourage (in a non-violent way) the cat to not go in there. Fear of God is the simple explanation. If they know they will be punished for going somewhere, they will not go there. Even your cats, after some work.
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now, this is all i'm going to think from now on:
Damn! Yaw baby gots a hot head!!
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