The cat and its tiny cat brain
I am highly amused by this ask.mefi thread about how cats view humans.
- We are helper monkeys, with extremely useful opposable thumbs. Our cats think we are kinda slow - well, downright dumb, really - when it comes to understanding what they want when they’re meowing at us and trying to herd us toward the feeding area. I’m sure they wonder why we can’t speak Cat yet.
- Meat. Every morning your kitty jumps into your bed to see if you are still alive or if the feast begins.
- He seems to think that our two dogs are really stupid, clumsy, potential cats.
- The real question, of course, is what kind of poor opinion do cats have of humans — we are so inept at everyday things like licking our own anuses, and we alternate between burning cats at the stake and treating them as honored members of the family.
- I’ve often wondered this as well. From observing my own cats, I think they see us partly as parent/caregiver cats (though they know that only some humans are food sources), partly as poor retarded cats that don’t know how to hunt, and partly as magic black boxes that can be caused to produce food by meowing in a certain way.
- what you are describing is a cat who does not think you are its mother or its love object, but rather a cat who is your witchly familiar.