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My brother and his wife recently bought a cat. What do I do when they're talking to me about it? What I mean is that their stories are always so mundane because it's a cat. They talk to me about how it meows or jump on countertops and yeah, that's what cats do. What am I supposed to say to the 15th story that's about how the cat ate really fast? I get it, to them, the cat matters. But it's not a human. I find stories of human babies boring, but at least those grow. If it's been months/years since I last heard from a human, they're likely to be doing new things. A cat is just going to be doing the same stuff as always.

Also, when did it become a thing for a man to show another man photos of his cat? I get it when a woman shows me cat photos. But why is my brother, an adult man, showing me, an adult man, photos of his cat? Why is he expecting me to talk about how cute the cat is? We're men. We can just not talk.