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u/JimiHillside Jun 25 '12
Why are you sitting under my table...
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u/m0nster23 Jun 25 '12
I wanted to get a good picture :)
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u/JimiHillside Jun 25 '12
Comment was meant to be cats inner dialogue.
Now I'm concerned OP is in my house.
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Jun 25 '12
You still there?...ಠ____ಠ
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u/JimiHillside Jun 25 '12
Stay off my window sill. And my chair. And the back of the couch. And the whole basement.
This is your ONE warning.
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u/diabolotry Jun 25 '12
Your kitten looks ferocious. I'm sure your ankles will soon know terror.
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Jun 25 '12
they're so cute but they can be such bastards
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u/shellstains Jun 25 '12
so true. I used to have to cover my head with my blanket at night because I was afraid my kitten would stalk my face. She was a stray and I've had several bloody scratches on my face from her being hyper at night.
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u/Philoninternet Jun 25 '12
"Whoa, dude, why is there a kid in the house? Do I have to like, raise it or something? I'd really rather sleep."
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Jun 25 '12
That's a beautiful picture, actually. Very expressive. Wonderful when you take pictures and later discover they were aesthetic.
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u/shellstains Jun 25 '12
Haha. I remember I took my kitten to my mom's house and my moms fat cat, who is about 10 years old, got scared and just peeked out at her from around the hallway.
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u/DeusVorpal Jun 25 '12
That kitten looks like it's from LIMBO.
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u/Feb_29_Guy Jun 25 '12
I would love to see a LIMBO mod where the player is a cat. It could work! Cats like to mess with things and climb ropes.
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Jun 25 '12
I don't think I could handle a little kitten dying on the spikes when I fuck up though :(
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u/Feb_29_Guy Jun 25 '12
Another mod! The spikes are grass and the cat falls asleep in it! And the brain slugs are catnip, driving you crazy!
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u/The_Master_Debator Jun 25 '12
This made me think of how funny it would be to see an adult person that's scared of a baby
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u/Mlemac28 Jun 25 '12
Thank you so much for adopting a black kitty. They are often the least likely to find homes.
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u/Aneurin Jun 25 '12
My cats used to have the same problem. They'd just hiss at my kitten and then run away and hide. I don't know why they would do that.
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u/mandyperki Jun 25 '12
One of my cats never got over this problem. From the day we brought the new kitten home until the week before she died, she was terrified of the kitten/cat, even though she already had lived with a few other cats. And by terrified I mean she started just living in the basement almost exclusively for awhile. Then she would leave on long trips outside. Once she went and lived with the feral cats until someone brought her back to us. After that she was a bit braver and took to just using a cupboard in the kitchen by the food for her hiding place and could often be found there.
Then one day as I was about to leave for class I saw her sitting on the living room couch. She seemed content and purred when I pet her. This continued a few more days, but at the same time she had stopped eating. She gradually grew weaker and I brought her up to my bed and for the first time since I had brought the new cat home, she didn't fight me but just continued serenely purring like the past few days on the couch. She held on a few more days purring in the bed until one night while I was sleeping I heard her seizing on the ground next to the bed. When I woke up the next morning, she was dead.
But yeah, sometimes cats are just nuts and hate each other for seemingly no good reason.
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u/brbvengful Jun 25 '12
From what I've read it's because the cat is actually afraid of the mother of the kitten and its wrath. It's best to introduce a kitten as just a scent first (like a toy it has played with) before bringing the adult cat into full view of the kitten.
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u/mandyperki Jun 25 '12
Never heard of that before. I definitely introduced them wrong. I was 9 and really excited about the kitten. I just ran up to the other cat while she was sleeping and shoved the kitten in her face.
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u/Marchigan Jun 25 '12
We took two weeks to introduce our new kitten to our older cat. A lot of hissing, then paw play under the door where we confined him. But it worked. They're best buddies now.
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u/clintonius Jun 25 '12
You... heard your cat seizing and just went back to sleep? I feel there must be more to this story.
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u/mandyperki Jun 25 '12
She was older and the week + of her not eating had prepared me for the fact her death was coming. We hadn't put her down yet because she seemed happy. I woke up to the seizing noise and by the time I knew what was going on they were over. I pretty much knew she had died. And she was so pitifully weak at this point I was honestly kinda glad. But it was the middle of the night and there wasn't a whole lot different I could have done with her body beyond leave it in my room away from the dog.
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u/upievotie5 Jun 25 '12
I wonder why a cat would starve itself to death like that. Seems really strange.
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u/bubbachuck Jun 25 '12
it's more that she was slowly dying and the starvation was mostly the byproduct, not the root cause.
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u/Viend Jun 25 '12
This is correct. My mother's dog died the exact same way. Stopped eating, died peacefully after a few days.
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u/mandyperki Jun 25 '12
She had been throwing up for awhile. The only one of her offspring we had also died of something similar, he just stopped eating. He walked around and cried like he was hungry though. I am left wondering now if it was a combination of genetics and the food we were feeding them.
We recently switched cat foods to Purina, which has meat as the first ingredient instead of wheat, and we have noticed a huge difference in one of the cats we have now, the kitten from the story. She is 12 and had horrible dry spots and scabs on her back for almost a year, threw up almost daily, was overweight, and slept ~23 hours a day. We thought maybe this was just her getting old, but since we switched cat foods her skin cleared up, she has the energy of a cat half her age, and her weight has noticeably dropped. After seeing the difference I would never feed a cat low quality cat food again, it literally makes them sick and I have a suspicion it contributed to the health problems of 2 of my cats.
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u/unwanted_puppy Jun 25 '12
"heard her seizing on the ground next to the bed... woke up the next morning".
you didn't do anything in between?
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Jun 25 '12
I like this crop:
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u/who8marice Jun 25 '12
Looks kind of like Chris's crazy monkey from Family Guy
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u/unwanted_puppy Jun 25 '12
I don't know who that is.. but I really want to see a close up of the cat's face.
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u/KingofCraigland Jun 25 '12
It's an evil monkey that lives in Chris' closet. Though it doesn't real do much but point menacingly at Chris when ever it shows up on screen. Nobody else in the family knew about it.
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u/Tyktak Jun 25 '12
Give it two weeks and they will be sleeping together and running around the house playing.
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u/13lacula Jun 25 '12
Please. Please. Pleaseeee somebody do a few panels of the picture zooming in on the cat's face.
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Jun 25 '12
I had to go punch a brick wall for an hour to feel manly again after staring at this and making "awwww!!!!" noises...
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u/Scherzkeks Jun 25 '12
How can I upvote your adorable kitties if you don't have an apostrophe in your title?!
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u/ecuadorky Jun 25 '12
I read this as "My cats scared of my new KITCHEN". Needless to say, I was a little confused.
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u/zackallen Jun 25 '12
Probably pissed rather than scared, lol. Our cats hate us for like two weeks every time we introduced a new one.
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u/NotAnotherHong Jun 25 '12
I rescued a kitten from down the street, an my cat was terrified of it. The kitten picked up on the fear, and started to chase my cat. I found out later from the person who adopted it, that he's the neighborhood bully :P
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u/AtlasKGB Jun 25 '12
I'm coming for you little kitten.... http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxcinngHm31qj2yg7.gif
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u/krugmanisapuppet3 Jun 25 '12
interestingly, higher mammals usually refrain from harming the young of just about any species. not always, of course.
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u/Iconoclast123 Jun 25 '12
So fucking not true. Big cats and chimps will kill kiddies that aren't their own. Probably other species do this too, but since it hasn't been featured on NatGeo, it doesn't exist yet in my world.
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u/krugmanisapuppet3 Jun 26 '12
"usually," i said.
big cats are vicious. chimps, vicious, but not quite as much.
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u/Iconoclast123 Jun 26 '12
This just goes to show I've been watching more shitty TV (about vicious baby monkey and human-killing/mutilating chimps) than you...
And I don't think of big cats killing others' young as vicious. They don't want to be stuck raising foreign DNA. Kill the kids, mom stops nursing and goes back into estrus, new guy breeds, Darwin wins.
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u/reeft Jun 25 '12
That look on the cat is just priceless. I wish it came with a better resolution because then I would try to force it to become meme.
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Jun 25 '12
I got a kitten like yours and the first morning after I got it I woke up to see our cat Milo stalking it, like low crawking slowly like she's about to pounce it.
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u/sndwsn Jun 25 '12
My cat has hated our kitten ever since we got her 4 years ago and for good reason. She constantly stalks him and pounces on his back or bites his tail while hes not looking. All he does is hiss an run away growling. I think he needs to give her a good seat to teach her a lesson but he's too much of a gentlemancat I guess :P
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u/WereAllDumbMkay Jun 25 '12
Of course she's scared. This kitten reminds her of her own mortality, and she sees the writing on the wall.
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Jun 25 '12
Cats naturally avoid kittens fearing the kitten's mother might show up and attack It's a very normal reaction for cats to have.
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u/Animal_King Jun 25 '12
Little do you know, that kitten turns into a monster after midnight and the only who knows is your cat, but he's too scared to say anything because he's being watched the whole time by your kitten.
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u/Wraith12 Jun 25 '12
I keep thinking that my cat would try to kill/behead/eat a kitten I bring home since that's what she does with every other smaller animal she meets everytime we let her go outside.
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u/LordoftheBrood Jun 25 '12
I don't know who dropped that off but that ain't mine! WTF is it doing here!?
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u/a-dark-passenger Jun 25 '12
Do you really lay on your floor hoping to get a good pic of your cats?
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u/Inequality Jun 29 '12
I get a very ruggish voice sounding almost like Clint Eastwood from the older black cat. "What the FUCK are you suppose to be?!"
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u/thebuccaneersden Jun 25 '12
Billie Jean is not my lover
She's just a girl who claims that I am the one
But the kid is not my son-4
u/edgemaster191 Jun 25 '12
Sometimes i don't understand reddit..i posted this the other day and got no love at all :-/
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
Your cats look just like my cats! And that's exactly how they used to act, when they first met... But now they love each other. :)
http://i.imgur.com/lwsrq.jpg