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Why cats won’t punish a stranger who harms you

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Re: Why cats won’t punish a stranger who harms you

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there's also the obvious fact that a cat isn't a credible threat to a human. there's no point in "punishing" a creature that weighs 15-25 times as much as you do. would you try to "punish" an elephant if you were unarmed? conversely, any creature that a cat can credibly deter is not a lethal threat to a human. I imagine a large dog understands, at least on some level, that it can actually win a fight against a human.…

Actually up to a weight for weight match or even more in the case of lighter humans, a single dog is trivial to defeat in combat unless it is properly trained to never fully engage and only to tear and dash. If a person reacts aggressively and not trying to escape, a dog is easily defeated. Just have to protect your throat and keep facing the dog. Allow it to grab you on a limb , preferably a hand or arm, and you hav…

I showed this to my gal pal, an animal surgeon of 12 years.

She's still laughing.

Also: How does one shove their arm down a dog's mouth if the dog's mouth is already busy biting the non-free arm?

Re: Why cats won’t punish a stranger who harms you

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post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

my cat absolutely believes she can talk. she yells at me when she wants to eat, asks for reassurance and protection when she’s feeling uncertain (like during supervised outdoor time), seeks forgiveness when she’s feeling guilty, and scolds me when i’m off-schedule (especially around treats and playtime).

Yeah - my conjecture is that cats understand that we’re somehow communicating by vocalizing, but obviously don’t understand the whole language thing, because they’re cats. They don’t really grasp any difference between their meows and human speech. My Siamese - a notoriously talkative breed - and I regularly have extended “conversations”. Especially with the whole pandemic stay-at-home thing, she’s become the centre…

that's cute! sometimes i mimic my cat's meows back to her, though she seems completely unfazed by that, as if i'm an american trying to speak french, and she just wants me to switch back to english so i stop embarrassing myself.
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