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If you were a cat, what colour would you be? I'd want to be a tortie.
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>>4930680
We lost the /an/ art thread for worthless faggot threads like these about cats
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>>4930680
I would want to be a gray tabby (>•-•)>
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>>4930680
>tortie
woman (male) or trans?
also i'd be a tuxedo cat
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>>4930680
If I was a cat I would kill myself as soon as possible.
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>>4930682
>>4930699
Only subhumans hate cats. This is a known fact.
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>>4930680
Best cat I had was a Tuxedo, but I also like long hair cats a lot. A grey Norwegian Forest Cat perhaps.
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>>4930727
Cat lovers have severe mental illness without exception
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>>4930727
This is what an actual catfag looks like:

https://x.com/Bold_Noise/status/1873746225369096481

Notice anything about the profile pic?
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>>4930740
>Browsing twitter
Go back newfag
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>>4930739
>>4930740
Do you only post to start shit up? That's sad
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>>4930754
X is based under Elon now

>>4930763
Blame the retard catfags for shitting up the board
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>>4930682
>>4930699
>>4930727
>>4930739
>>4930740
>>4930775
literal NPCs
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>>4930680
I would be invisible. That would be the only way I could cope with the absolute shame and embarrassment of being a cat.
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>>4930775
>"Man, could you please stop shitting in my front-yard"
>"YOU SHOULD COMPLAIN ABOUT THE PEOPLE SHITTING ON MY FRONT YARD IS THEIR FAULT!"
retarded logic
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>>4930689
Only correct answer
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>>4930854
This is our front yard

And the persistent cat spam is getting old. Fuck cats.
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i would be a ragdoll, they're so nice
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>>4930680
Why would you want to be abandoned by a midwit narcissist and eaten by a hawk?

I choose invisible, so stinky catfags don’t ruin my kitty life.
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>subhumans invade silly cat threads
>silly dog threads are untouched because catfags are not mentally ill and malicious to shit them up
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>>4930680
the /an/ art thread was cool
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>>4930999
>seething carfag remains remarkably delusional.

Nice.
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>>4930999
Or maybe, /an/ doesnt like cats because they murder birds and their owners are delusional and neglectful retards that happily facilitate it while spouting thoroughly disproven lies
>hurr durrrrrr cats need to go outside
Like hell. They are dumber than pigeons.
>theyre getting rid of the endless supply of rats outside
No, just endangered voles and dormice. But mostly birds.
So, are you surprised?
>animals and nature board doesnt like the number one killer of the very symbol of nature (the songbird).
Wow really? Bird board. Bird. Board. Gtfo.
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>>4931029
you are screaming and pissing yourself all alone.
Besides keeping cats inside is the NORM.
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>>4931029
>bird board
when was the last time someone made a songbird thread? There is a small bird thread with barely any posts in it.

When in the history of a board was ever a thread about building nesting boxes and feeders?
You don't give a flying shti about birds, it's just an excuse for you to post cat gore.
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>>4931076
most people here like birds. they just don't need to spam the catalog with 2 shitty bird threads a day. 2 or 3 bird threads period is more than enough. imagine that, actual 4chan oldfags knowing how this site works and not flooding /an/, unlike you.

oh, and before that one schizo had his huge meltdown meta thread where he was randomly accusing people of being his mother and threatening to kill the board (which he thought was just 3 people), we didn't have this shitty 2+ thread a day cat spam problem.

so maybe you deserve cat gore? maybe you deserve an /an/ where everyone fucking hates cats? not like it's a change. when the spam stops everyone's first response to "a dog ate my cat" will still be "good, keep them inside".
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>>4931078
I've been here longer than most people and seen bugguy constantly posting cat hate and ridiculous Descartes tier thoughts about every animal that can't recognise itself in a mirror being an automatons.

People here don't hate cats, you shitbag hate cats. The cat general and the dog general is the same size, except catfags don't spam dead dogs like some deranged sadist.
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>>4931078
The cat spam changes nothing. Cats are still ok pets but dumb as bricks domesticated animals that are the ordinary prey for everything that breathes and totally useless for any productive tasks. And litterboxes still smell.
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>>4931080
Only domestic animal smarter than the cat is the dog.
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>>4931079
>its duh dogs! ITS DUH DOGS!
You keep forcing it but its the birdchads and the environmentalists. You probably think bugguy is behind cats being dumb but some of that is a catfag sick of seeing people literally throwing their little retards to the wolves due to a mistaken belief in higher cognitive needs (tnr is cat torture fag).

The dog people dont think about you at all until zoophile false flagging and false accusations about dog posters being zoophiles crop up, because, well, 99% of that is a specific cat rapist.
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>>4931081
u shure
>pig
>horse
>budgie
>pigeon
>sheep
>cow
>goyim
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>>4931083
>pigeon
Extremely dumb animal except great eyesight.
>budgie
Not domestic, also dumber.
>sheep
Dumber than cat.
>cow
Dumber than cat.
>pig
Fine, they are smarter than dogs too
>horse
Maybe, debatable
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>>4931082
Bruh I visit the dog thread too and there are several zoophiles in there most noticably that fucking weirdo posting a dog named Anya.
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>>4931086
Just him and he only got the dog because he couldn't keep 2 neglected and abused horses in his semi truck.
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>>4931086
Its just that guy and he belongs to /horse/. Everyone in /dog/ hates him and several attempted to dox him and call the cops, but his native /horse/ thinks hes based.

Too bad they couldnt dox a vagrant who already planned his life of crime and took precautions.

>>4931085
Imagine being this wrong
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>>4931101
There is no way someone who worked with both cats and pigeons would conclude pigeons are more intelligent. They are extremely stupid and instinct driven. My pigeons bonded with fucking shoes kek.
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>>4931107
Who are you to judge them for their shoe fetish when the smartest man to ever live bonded with a pigeon
maybe they like the comfort of a silent partner they can sit in after growing up lonely and being socially awkward around other pigeons
https://youtube.com/watch?v=mDntbGRPeEU
Meanwhile
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/jun/16/psychologist-test-outsmarts-cats
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>>4931107
>>4931085
Show me a stupid cat that can do this:

>Pigeons can discriminate Picasso paintings from Monets. In 1995, Japanese scientists tested the visual abilities of pigeons in an unusual way: They showed the birds paintings by Picasso and Monet (Watanabe et al., 1995). Pigeons were trained to discriminate between photographs of Monet and Picasso paintings. They had no problems doing this. Then they were tested with other pictures by the two artists they had never seen before. Still, the birds had no problem discriminating between the artworks. Fascinatingly, the birds were also able to discriminate between the works of other Cubist artists and other Impressionist artists. This shows that pigeons can categorize complex man-made artworks and even discriminate between two art movements—something even some humans without a background in art history might have problems with.

>Pigeons can detect cancer in radiology images. Another unusual experiment on the amazing visual abilities of pigeons was conducted in 2015: Here, the authors tested whether pigeons were able to discriminate benign from malignant human breast tumors in medical images (Levenson et al., 2015). Human medical professionals go through years of highly specialized training before they can reliably detect cancer. Using food rewards, the birds were trained to discriminate between pictures of malignant and benign tissue samples. Later they were shown novel images from both categories and were still able to discriminate between malignant and benign tissue samples. Thus, although detecting breast cancer in medical images is a task that requires considerable training and is very difficult for inexperienced humans, pigeons showed a remarkable ability to make the correct diagnosis.
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>>4931111
>>4931107
>>4931085
Or this:

>Pigeons are on par with primates when it comes to counting. When asked which group of animals is the most intelligent, most people will probably answer primates, the order of animals that contains apes like chimpanzees and gorillas and monkeys like baboons and macaques. But did you know that the numerical abilities of pigeons are on par with that of primates? In a 2011 study, researchers from the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, investigated whether pigeons showed the ability to learn abstract numerical rules (Scarf et al., 2011).

>Pigeons can recognize words. An important part of reading is the ability to visually recognize words (orthographic knowledge). In a 2016 study (Scarf et al., 2016), a research team from New Zealand and Germany showed that humans are not the only species with orthographic abilities: Pigeons can be trained to discriminate words from meaningless combinations of letters. Using food rewards, pigeons learned between 26 and 58 words and were able to discriminate them from 7,832 meaningless four-letter combinations. Moreover, the birds were able to discriminate completely new words they had never seen during training from meaningless letter combinations. This shows that the pigeons had a representation of what a word is in their brains – and that the neural bases of reading, a skill thought to be uniquely human, is also present in animal brains decidedly different from ours.

>Pigeons have an amazing memory. In a German study from 1990 (von Fersen and Güntürkün, 1990), pigeons were trained to memorize 725 random black-and-white visual patterns. The patterns did not share any systematic characteristics, so the pigeons had to memorize them one by one. The animals needed to identify the 100 “positive” patterns from the 625 "negative" patterns to obtain food rewards. This is a memory task so complex that most humans would have trouble with it.

W Pigeons
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>>4931111
Most of a pigeon's brain is devoted to sight, they are extremely good at this kind of visual tests.

Show me a pigeon that can invent games to play and communicate clearly when it wants to play, eat, drink or the heating turned on, or can form a lifelong friendship with a dog.
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>>4931109
Okay that box text I don't think a cat can solve it, can a dog solve it?
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>>4931115
A beagle was filmed moving stools to get on a counter.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_ym0rxisOpw
its funny to watch
>the beagle think about trying a jump and chickening out
>their weird tendency towards routine movement patterns
>their clear acknowledgement of moving a chair being possible, and then checking to see if a different jump would work
>moving the chair the shortest possible distance
>seeing they have to walk across the sink and almost deciding to move the chair further before going nah fuck it
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>>4931113
Even chickens can do this. Begging for food, imprinting, and so called inventing games doesnt happen a lot of animals just compulsively do some things like batting shit away. Even retrieving in dogs is an instinctive compulsion like humans and their deeply rooted desire to catch balls.
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>>4931117
and people dare to claim beagles are not an intelligent breed
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>>4930680
White
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>>4931117
If that's impressive, then where do honey badgers rank?

https://youtu.be/bskDDjCjNVQ?si=MZjwegvG113Yz1Nx&t=224

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c36UNSoJenI
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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qdeRUkeJPgU

Explain why this pigeon is so fucking stupid
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>>4930775
>X

It's called twitter faggot.
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>>4931029
Indent your fucking posts newfag.
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>>4930680
i'd be white from being covered in tomcat cum
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>>4930727
>Only subhumans hate cats. This is a known fact.
Cats were literally the favorite animal of Muhammad who hated dogs.
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>>4930727
Objectively correct
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>>4931178
dogs are also only hated by subhumans, so this still checks out
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>>4931140
>redditor is a reddit spacing expert
i would delete this if i were you
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>>4930680
you will never be a tortoiseshell
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>>4930680
Same. Torties have very pleasant fur patterns.
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id be white. blue and yellow eyes would be cool. khao manee are my favorite breed.
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>>4930680
Orange
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>>4930680
Any color is fine as long as I'm a cat
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>>4931029
Retarded birdbrain. 90% of people keep their cats inside.
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>>4931998
Factually incorrect. Cope harder.
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>>4931998
Factually correct. I kneel.
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>>4931123
>posts a jew
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>>4932055
>>4931998
Samefagging. Objective truth
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>>4931289
Never heard of that breed, pretty
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>>4933164
ugly as shit
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>>4933164
She's cute!

>>4933176
Ignore the anti cat szhizo
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>>4933191
>Schizos! Schizos everywhere! That's not just the toxo from my pet cat making me hallucinate!
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>>4933164
That cat would make a tasty meal for a hawk or coyote
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>>4933238
the more yotes, the more food for the hungry .223
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i would want to be a glorious white/grey chad
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>>4933257
And you won't put a dent in coyote numbers. They'll keep multiplying and they'll keep eating outdoor cats. Cope.
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>>4933257
Based
>Tranq and track female
>Get lead back to den and wipe it out entirely
No more yote pests
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>>4933351
Coyote hunting is the best cope.
Allegedly the more they are hunted, the larger litters they birth.
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>>4933361
See >>4933359
Only hobbyists pick them off one at a time
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>>4933362
come now, coyote pups are too cute to hurt
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>>4933344
Looks kind of like a cat that rolled around in dirt desu
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>>4933361
They go into heat when pack members die as well.
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>>4933918
See >>4933359
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>>4933922
I read that. Sounds like a bit of a larp tbqhwy.
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>>4933925
This post sounds like cope
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>>4933928
???? Tranq guns and the medicine is expensive, a good tracker is also expensive. Are you going silenced, subsonic, and thermal scope? Pretty expensive setup also.

Explain what happens when you start shooting if you can get close enough. Are they going to scatter or simply let you shoot them all one by one?
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>>4933934
The coyote population has only expanded, way past all the hicks that get salty over dead outdoor cats and their own refusal to maintain secure livestock pens. So take a guess.
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>>4933936
I forgot to add that a secure fence is probably cheaper than 20 grand of LARP gear that won't actually do anything.
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>>4933943
A secure fence just for your chickens and goats costs exactly as much as an ar15+worthwhile thermal scope
Keeping a cat inside is free
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>>4933950
See
>>4933928
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>>4933359
Yotefags utterly seething at this post
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>>4933959
See
>>4933952
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>>4933959
They literally can't stop seething kek
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>>4933950
>I would rather disrupt local ecosystems instead of fencing in my livestock because i want to feel like a big man with a big gun
/an/ is meant for people who like nature, /k/ is more your speed.
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>>4930699
If I were a cat I would mind my use of the subjunctive mood.
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>>4930775
>X is based under Elon now
Found the jew.
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>>4934005
This.
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>>4931178
Wtf? I appreciate muslims now!
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>>4930680
black kitty (with stylish white chest tuft)
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>>4930682
fpbp
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>>4930680
I'd like to be a tuxedo cat
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>>4934119
>>4934167
Aren't these the same?
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>>4930682
Should have bumped it instead of crying like a faggot
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>>4934299
But then the anti cat schizo wouldn't get the attention that it wanted
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>>4934341
If there were a schizo they would be bumping threads to "fight you". But you’re just pissing off ordinary posters by trying to organize cat themed raids on /an/ and constantly getting hysterical any time anyone says cats arent perfect and dont live up to every ancient myth like
>cats arent cleaner than dogs at all
>U HAET CATS *spams /pol/ bait*
Absolute insanity. No wonder people post cat hate to troll you.
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>>4934344
This.
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>>4934344
Cats are cleaner than dogs, fact. Dogs are scavengers/ predators, cats are pure predators.
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>>4934348
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>>4934348
Tell that to the dumpster cats behind my house. Also tell it to the cats that vanish when a coyotes rolls around. Scavenger/predator/prey. Dogs and cats average the same amount of cleanliness but dogs have both higher cleanliness potential and more room for dysfunction because they are more intelligent, and intelligent animals dont operate on pure instinct. They operate on learned behavior and acquired habits whether they are advantageous or desirable in our opinion or not. Like you. You are not in the habit of showering and of course children often dislike showers and baths (ironically they like swimming) but its clear that humans can shower twice a day or more if trained to. If only you were. Then you’d probably spend less time being the easily baited retard who associates with the imagined supremacy of the cat as his sole source of self worth. If only you smelled better, you could start being social again. Like the normal cat people who dont care that cats aren’t perfect beings and dont live up to medieval african and levantine mythology. If normal cat people read the same things that make you go nuts, they’d say "ok and?"
I told a normal cat person that licking isn’t really grooming and cats still need bathed because they roll in dirt and are just an animal. They agreed. And then they told me they need brushed daily or more to cut down on hairballs. This person owns three cats and zero dogs. If someone said that on /an/ you would hit your crack pipe and spam for hours thinking all the WFH techies and bored phoneposting teenagers trolling you are bugguy.
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>>4934348
PURE PREDATOR (of leftover pizza)
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>>4934344
Lmao the anti cat schizo got triggered when called out again. Get a life you pathetic piece of shit.
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>>4934360
Meds
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>>4930680
pure black cat crossing paths hopefully not getting run over by a car
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>>4934360
This
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I would be this mad bastard.
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>>4934370
Pure unbridled rage
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>>4934360
Projection.
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>>4934360
Truth.
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>>4934354
case in point
OBLIGATE
CARNIVORE
And I don't care 4 billion pizza are eaten by feral cats every year, skill issue for pizza.
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>>4933914
you kind of make sense...
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>>4934376
Look, he's smiling :)
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>>4934668
>obligate carnivore
>note: carni means bread, dairy, and tomato sauce
Cats are not obligate carnivores. They can actually live longer on a properly formulated vegan diet. Most stray cats scavenge for the majority of their diet and will eat anything including starch and cooked vegetables.
>inb4 taurine
Yes and humans are obligate piscivore-frugivores because they need iodine and vitamin C. And yet many people get these nutrients elsewhere.
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>>4934668
I'd eat 4 billion pizzas a year if I could and yes I'm American



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