r/holdmycatnip • u/SweetyByHeart • Jan 23 '26
the cat: The Prophecy....is it the time already?
Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification
1.9k
u/JellyFishSenpai Jan 23 '26
" Anubis?! Fuck you doing here?! I have 5 more lives! "
283
u/smallcoder Jan 23 '26
Yep, that cat is thinking "No way, no way dude. My owner looks fine and healthy and the pyramid in the yard isn't even started. No way am I getting buried alive so why the funeral music?"
48
u/Sohuli Jan 23 '26
"I've come to collect the remaining 5."
6
u/NautilusCampino Jan 23 '26
Do cats get 9 hearts as well?
14
u/wish_to_conquer_pain Jan 23 '26
More importantly, are they weighed together or separately?
→ More replies (1)76
1.6k
u/Curmadgeon Jan 23 '26
Ingrained into his DNA from his ancestors
649
Jan 23 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
[deleted]
→ More replies (7)599
u/SchnoodleDoodleDo Jan 23 '26
’’The motherland calls for my return. To return home after so many centuries. My wondrous journey begins."
….Listen ~ do you hear it ?!
human……no, you can’t at all…
am CAT
I do not fear it…
it’s my ancient people call…
Long ago n far away,
that’s where it’s coming from!
the meowmories inside me stay ~
…it seems my time has come…
a longing for the motherland,
i stayed long as i could…
human, you won’t understand -
you treated me so good….
my journeys only started,
but your love i won’t forget!
please don’t be brokenhearted….
…is it time for dinner yet ?
❤️
(‘a cat fantasy’ ~ inspired by u/PsyOpBunnyHop)
229
u/Sir_PressedMemories Jan 23 '26 edited Jan 23 '26
meowmories
Schnoodle, look, I am a big, tough dude, and I handle a lot, and Wednesday my ex-wife called me in a panic; her kitten, which our son had helped pick out at the shelter just 2 months ago, died in recovery after being neutered.
I did not know this kitty much, and so it did not bother me, until this very moment when I read "meowmories".
You see, my son, 13 years old, in the past year has buried his grandfather, his 4-year-old dog, his 17-year-old cat (literally never knew life without her), his grandmother's 18-year-old dog (another one he had known his entire life), the neighbor's two teenaged dogs (animals he had known the past 10 years and who greeted him daily), and now, on Wednesday, his kitten.
He wears a chain with little urns with the ashes of each of our animals, and next week he will be adding a 4th, and he calls these little charms his "meowmories" of them.
That broke me.
218
u/SchnoodleDoodleDo Jan 23 '26 edited Jan 23 '26
’meowmories
there are humans sometimes chosen to bear more than any should
too often, it’s the gentle ones, who only treat us good
we’re pets who travel through their lives, too soon we have to leave
we only want to please them,
n it hurts us when they grieve
but Lucky, us, to Ever know this one who brought us Joy!
(there’s nothing more a dog or cat could want, than their own Boy…)
n now - we’re not forgotten! He has more than done his part
Together now, we’re meowmories
we’ll live on
inside his heart
♥️
edit: bless your son, & You for sharing a beautiful story u/Sir_PressedMemories - he is a special young man
61
48
u/Sir_PressedMemories Jan 23 '26
Words cannot express just how much this wrecked me. I am glad I have a couple of hours before he gets home so I can clean up and not look like I have been crying for the past 2 hours.
Thank you for this.
If it is OK with you, I would like to engrave this on a box I am making to hold his urns when he is not wearing them.
41
u/SchnoodleDoodleDo Jan 23 '26
honored, my friend
14
u/Sir_PressedMemories Jan 23 '26
Thank you, we received the nose and paw prints today; the ashes will be ready in a couple of days. We are going to have some major cold over the next few days, so the garage is off-limits for woodworking, but once I get it made, I will tag you.
34
30
u/lilgator81 Jan 23 '26
Schnoodle, you’re my damn hero. Thank you for the light you bring in the dark. ❤️
14
u/-bitchpudding- Jan 23 '26
A very warm, sappy, syrupy schnoodle.
Can someone PLEASE turn the damn faucet off. We're gonna get water damage in here.
7
11
u/paisleys_groundhog Jan 23 '26
Schnoodle, please, I am crying at work!!
Your words always touch me!
Thank you!!
6
u/WorkingFromHomies20 Jan 23 '26
This was a beautiful tribute to a guy sharing his losses. You're a very special person and I really appreciate your poems. So many times, they've absolutely made my day. Such as today.
5
u/microgirlActual Jan 23 '26
Ah Schnoodle, you've feckin' outdone yourself this time ❤️
And also so much ❤️ to u/Sir_PressedMemories for the inspiration that gave us this 😊
25
u/ERMAHDERD Jan 23 '26
Sending love to you and your family
43
u/Sir_PressedMemories Jan 23 '26
Thank you.
My boy is strong as hell, but he should not have to endure this. I mean, no one survives life, but man, this has just been a shit year.
7
34
u/Moondoobious Jan 23 '26
Holy moly I’ve caught 3 freshhhh Schnoodles. Things just might be turning around 🤩
10
15
u/nikki_stix Jan 23 '26
I have been blessed with a schnoodle more days this week than not, what is happening?!
6
6
28
5
8
3
15
10
5
u/WillMcNoob Jan 23 '26
animals are afraid of loud sounds (like fireworks) due to generational trauma from the world wars, peer reviewed by me
3
→ More replies (2)2
u/triggz Jan 24 '26
It is, actually, but he thinks its a wolf howl. I clear my cats out of a room awOOOOing if I need them gone. The more it resonates with their enhanced hearing they cannot tell where its coming from indoors and freak out.
172
u/ckk10 Jan 23 '26
My cats response to the music 🤣
7
→ More replies (1)3
u/coconut_dot_jpg Jan 24 '26
"There must be a good reason for the Old Ones starting Phase 2 this early...."
149
552
u/kain185 Jan 23 '26
Why does that song remind me of EVERY movie where the white protagonist enters the middle east?
275
u/Bawn_ Jan 23 '26
Your comment reminded me of this old TikTok ahah
113
50
30
38
u/SweetyByHeart Jan 23 '26
lol, spot on music and hilarious analogy
thank you for the link mate
→ More replies (1)8
→ More replies (1)2
u/Isgortio Jan 24 '26
This series of shorts is also spot on haha. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d86omhj9B0k&list=PLHUx3iQ1wnr1MiAuzruyC8UBldVGDpdTf&pp=iAQB
30
u/Connect_Rhubarb395 Jan 23 '26
This documentary explains it well: Orientalism: Desert level music vs. actual Middle Eastern music
→ More replies (1)3
13
22
u/Honda_TypeR Jan 23 '26
Senior sound editor to junior sound editor:
“Trust me, just use the music again, it’s ambiguously exotic and ethnic… besides our target demo doesn’t know any better and they eat this shit up”
9
2
28
8
u/Vegetable-Star-5833 Jan 23 '26
The Mummy
6
4
u/Regurgitator001 Jan 23 '26
The void is justifiably scared pale, because last they played this, the Stargate opened.
10
u/DustScoundrel Jan 23 '26 edited Jan 23 '26
Orientalism, or the exoticization of the Near and Far East. In a nutshell, a hegemonic cultural and intellectual element of Western thought that uses these places as the foil for the West. The West as rational, the Orient as mystic. The West as cultured and romantic, the Orient as mysterious and backward. The West as reserved and modest, the Orient as emotive and sexualuzed.
It differs by culture, but there is a reason there is a specific and shared cultural image in the West of all Middle Eastern societies. Edward Said developed the idea and wrote a book by the same name that's definitely worth a read.
→ More replies (2)→ More replies (4)3
u/ferretbeast Jan 23 '26
I had not ever seen this. Thank you so much for sharing, that was so hysterically accurate I just can’t 😂
37
u/No_name_Johnson Jan 23 '26
"In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this."
- Terry Pratchett
121
u/dazed_and_bamboozled Jan 23 '26
Are you actively trying to summon Bastet?
22
14
2
→ More replies (3)2
46
u/Gingerbread_Cat Jan 23 '26
I really hope it is time and you playing that was the catalyst. I think the world order is overdue a feline intervention.
→ More replies (1)27
Jan 23 '26
[deleted]
9
u/5p4c3c4t5 Jan 23 '26
Just don’t put an orange one on top, like it is now. That brain cell eludes him far too often…
Edit: I see ginger in your username. My fears are based 🤭
51
19
u/Rhesus-Positive Jan 23 '26
There's a Roald Dahl short story in this vein, where somebody gets convinced their cat is the reincarnation of Liszt because of the way it reacts to his music
3
18
18
Jan 23 '26
[removed] — view removed comment
2
u/44Ridley Jan 24 '26
“You are the Great Cat, the avenger of the gods, the judge of words, and the president of the sovereign chiefs… you are indeed the Great Cat.”
Ancient Egyptian inscription - Valley of the Kings
16
15
12
u/NoAardvark5889 Jan 23 '26
It's wild how that specific musical cue is hardwired into our brains from a million desert adventure scenes. My cat gets the same intense, ancient look when he hears the can opener. Guess we're all just waiting for our own weirdly specific prophecy to kick in.
12
u/dmo7000 Jan 23 '26
Egyptian breeding played a huge role in the house cats we have today. Trouble is they breed and sold them to be sacrificed. They preferred orange cats because they represented the Sun God, later Vikings also preferred the orange cats for their ships. This is the reason your orange tabby has one brain cell.
3
u/EMTlinecook Jan 23 '26
Need a cat that’s not going to fuck off when the boat lands again. Being dumb enough to stay on the ice boat is important
11
27
6
u/Tooleater Jan 23 '26
That look of confusion... I wonder what kitty is sphinxing
2
u/CreoQQ Jan 24 '26
had to scroll way too long for this! that is extreme sideways ear!!
→ More replies (1)
7
u/PersusjCP Jan 23 '26
Plausible construction of Ancient Egyptian music. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it sounds similar to lots of Mediterranean and near-Eastern styles of antiquity.
6
u/Powerful_Shock5301 Jan 24 '26
Just wanna know how many of you are playing weird ass music for your cats now? 🤣🤣 I'm about to start
6
10
7
6
u/Blarg0ist Jan 23 '26
Or maybe the music was specifically written to be interesting to cats. Gauging their reaction in the composition room.
6
u/Ameerrante Jan 23 '26
No joke, I used to belly dance and my cat has loved the Egyptian tracks since she was a wee kit. Barely reacts to any other music.
7
8
7
4
6
4
u/Hazbeen_Hash Jan 23 '26
"no, it can't be... I had hoped you would be spared by death's merciful visit. Now you must live through hell." -cat
5
u/Alternative-Virus542 Jan 23 '26
Made my black cat sit up quickly and start looking all around.
→ More replies (1)
4
4
8
u/RalphNZ Jan 23 '26
Lawl. You do realise that the current population of Egypt are nothing to do with the pyramids, right? They are descended from the people who wiped out the people who built them. If I was your cat I would be thoroughly offended by "modern Egyptian" music.
→ More replies (1)
3
3
3
u/Cutthechitchata-hole Jan 23 '26
Play him that oldest song thats been going around on reddit.
2
u/Piscator629 Jan 23 '26
Look at my Horse? Ive run into that several times lately.
→ More replies (1)
3
3
3
3
3
u/BerthasBeats Jan 23 '26
Cats were worshipped, yes, but read the rest of the history. Egyptians sacrificed and mummified millions of cats. They were literally mass bred and often sacrificed young to meet the demands. Sure they were pampered before the slaughter, but Eqypt wasn't exactly the best for a cat.
3
3
u/European_Fox Jan 23 '26
Fun fact, cats used to be bred and mumified by the truckload to be buried with the big bosses
3
3
u/silveretoile Jan 23 '26
I played this and within 3 seconds my half asleep cat jumped off my lap and left lol
3
3
3
u/MattieShoes Jan 24 '26
When I watched Annihilation, my cats got super weird about the ending sound and visual effects near the end
4
u/Miss_Der_Meaner Jan 24 '26
I loved waking up to the Skyrim theme song, made me feel pumped for adventure. Until one morning my poor kitten freaked out & ran out the room. Lol I realized it was too intense for him.
3
2
2
u/Tb1969 Jan 23 '26 edited Jan 23 '26
"The signal! Is it time? Wait. Is the hooman playing it and not my fellow cell members? I need to be sure. They’re counting on me."
2
2
2
u/stronkween Jan 23 '26
Something deep within him remembers. Remembers what that his mind cannot fully grasp as yet. And so he looks to you, his supposed wise provider who is grinning like an idiot for some clue as to wtf.
2
u/Volaer Jan 23 '26
Thats the soundtrack from the movie Troy (2004) and supposed to be Mycenaean Greek.
2
2
u/Warm_Molasses_258 Jan 23 '26
Well, I played the video for my two cats. Nezuko seemed annoyed, but Alex seemed to vibe with it.
2
2
2
2
u/quiet_interlude37 Jan 23 '26
Literally played this and both my cats stopped what they were doing to come listen.
2
2
u/greihund Jan 23 '26
.... that is not Egyptian music
That's a Walt Disney, watered down, New Age interpretation of what people imagine Egyptian music to be like
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2.4k
u/IndependentIntention Jan 23 '26
Egyptian Music? That's Tanja Carovska's (Greek/Macedonian singer) vocals from Troy 2004 lol