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International Cat Day is taking over Twitter right meow
And you thought there were a lot of cats on the internet already.

By Erin Carson | August 8, 2019

 
Cats rule the internet on any given day. Thursday, though, is International Cat Day, which means you’re likely to see even more cats curled up on your social feeds than normal.

Using the hashtag #InternationalCatDay, folks are taking the chance to post pics of their feline companions.

 
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Cats are famously non-social creatures so their frequent appearance in social media is something of an unintended ironic pun.

However, I must say that, based on my own experience, cats may be sociable: I lived for several years in an apartment building in Sydney and saw many times, when the weather was fine, a number of strays sunning themselves in the backyard and chilling out together in a grand way (as  those were Aussie cats, do they count?). Cats are also famous for being cold towards and not caring much for those humans they adopt, but willing to be patient with them as long as they feed them daily and punctually. However, once upon a time I found, lost in the same backyard, a little kitten and decided to keep him as an experiment, to see how that worked out (I am a dog person descended from a long line of dog people and with no previous feline experience at the time). I named him “Sir Francis Drake”, but he was “Frank” to me and my friends. Some months later I had to go away for a couple of weeks, so I left him in the feline equivalent of a kennel. When I came back, as soon as he saw me, he run towards where I was, clambered up on me and wrap himself very tightly, like a living scarf, around my neck, purring like mad.

So: what conclusions may be drawn from these facts?

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It’s a little known fact.

Cats influenced humans to build the ArpaNet / Internet. It’s their own social media, on a scale more grand than any of ours. They use it to find mates, transmit secret battle plans, coordinate secret cat meetings, and share mind control skillz to make sure their race does not become subservient to humans.

It’s working . . .

~ Group "Weekend" ~

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As we all here have aliases to keep our own true names from being known (the most popular alias being “anonymous”), one can never tell who is what. There may be, among us, for all we know — and as I have long suspected from some of the things they write — even non-human loungers that take advantage of… wait a minute, because I have to… purrrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrr… Ah, OK, that’s better. As I was saying, we just can’t tell what those posting here are… wait, wait… miaaaouu, miaaooouuu… Sorry, I’ve got to go: call of nature (I urgently need to use the kitty litter).

 

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Oscar, I am a dog person also and the affection dogs exhibit is a complete opposite to that of cats. Google “Cupboard Love” and this fits cats perfectly.

As for Aussie cats they more than count 🙂 (kinda biased on that front)

I’ve had two cats, one a kitten I found in my front yard (I tried to find the owner by asking my neighbours but that proved to be fruitless) so kept him. Forward 6 years later and this poor kitty wasn’t well so I took him to an emergency vet, he later scanned him because of paperwork and found he had a chip and the name of his previous owners! Turns out the original owners were visiting one of my neighbours (they were friends) and she was one of the first ones I had asked. In the end obviously they didn’t want him back, nor the vet bills, unfortunately he passed away.

This leads to my second cat. I went to pick up his ashes and in the reception were 6 kittens wanting a home. The owner had come to the vet saying he wanted all of them plus the mother “put down”. The vet was not happy at all with this and forcibly said he should surrender them and luckily he did. Eventually they all got loving homes even if the love is not always reciprocated 😉 and my kitten will be 12 this year.

Long story short, cats are their own person (for want of a better word) and live their lives somewhat independently even though humans at times do have their perks. It depends on how well the owners treat their pets and of course care about their welfare.

If multiple cats are not brought up together from kittens in a domestic sense then fights more than likely do occur.

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I have a shelter rescue, a domestic shorthair tabby with great looking stripes and a tuxedo. Knows he’s the handsome-est cat around. My three old dogs played with and cuddled him as a kitten and always got along. The parrots didn’t, and trained him not to bother them. Birds can bite. Hard. Smartest indoors cat we’ve ever had, doesn’t like human food and leaves it alone.

Cats Rule, Dogs Drool is known around the world with reason  🙂

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A not well-enough known fact about cats: they might give some people close to them a condition caused by the parasite toxoplasma gandii. The parasite infects the brain and the outer symptoms of the resulting condition, known as toxoplasmosis, are: an increase in fearlessness and a correlative greater inclination to risk-taking and approving and then securitizing sub-par mortgages:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/26/health/cat-poop-entrepreneur-trnd/index.html

On account of this, cat ladies are the most fearless and reckless people on this planet. They would make, if given a chance by their militaries to show their prowess in action, even fiercer warriors than the famed berserkers of old. Be nice to cat ladies, even if they do not seem likely to go berserk. Because, if you are nasty to them, you won’t find out that, yes, they are, until it is too late to say “sorry.” Or have enough time to even cry “Help!”

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Toxoplasmosis is the reason pregnant women are advised not to clean out cats’ litter trays. I know of a teenager that was infected about 15 years ago, and I’ve also met someone who had had “cat scratch fever” (similar to septicemia). Always pays to be careful, but the rewards they give you is immeasurable.

And yes, dogs are also top pets 😉

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