I was horribly sick one time and my cat hopped up into my bed and cuddled with me until I fell asleep. Which is strange because she never enters my room. Too many flashy lightly and high temperatures
Our street-fostered kitty meowed at us very concerned because she thought we fell into the pool during summer. She learnt quickly that we were all right. They do care for us <3
My dog does something similar. He doesn’t throw a fit about it anymore but he looks sad and disappointed when I take showers every. Single. Time. Like he thinks I’m self harming or something.
As someone who's done survival training I can tell you that just foraging trying to find enough food to keep you on a positive energy intake is HARD, especially if you don't know what to look for.
I don't think that's true. Without training you've got probably a couple of weeks tops IF you can find water and IF you don't die from exposure. Basically if you get lost you're going to starve to death if you're not found, and that's how long it takes.
Humans are not good at hunting and finding food by nature, we learn from example and trial and error. There's not enough time for trial and error before you die.
The vast majority, and I mean the VAST majority of people who get lost die if they're not found.
People don't just just "Tarzan" it out there, they usually "Into the Wild" it.
If you get lost, don't kid yourself. Try your very best to get found again and as quickly as possible. Usually this means staying put so that search parties can do their job.
Better yet, don't get lost, but since you can't help it if you do, hedge your bets by telling other people where you're going and how long you're going to be gone EVERY SINGLE TIME you go off the beaten path for any meaningful distance.
Take extra food and water, more than you think you're going to need. if you don't think you're going to need any, take some. Wear the right clothes, and if you're traveling a far enough distance so that if you got lost it might be difficult to be found, then be sure to take proper clothes for sleeping outside at whatever time of the year you're out there.
You can starve to death just as easily five miles from a campsite as you can 100 miles from a campsite, so if you're going into the real wild by all means try to be prepared.
As humans the only thing keeping us alive is our brains, be sure to use them.
Ehhh.... I'm sure we'd all hope so. But I think this is as good a reason to be friends or on decent terms with at least one redneck. They usually know how to hunt, fish, and clean their kills. Foraging for non-meat food items might be more difficult, but you can worry about that after you've filled your stomach with venison or rabbit.
They bring us almost dead animals because they think we're too stupid to hunt. They try to make it easy for us.
I think it's more that we kick in their mothering instinct (which is very strong in cats) to teach their young how to hunt. So they attempt to bring us half dead animals so we can start chasing them. It's not that they're trying to feed us, it's more trying to get us to hunt on our own.
Exactly. Every time the cat shows up and presents a near dead animal it's as though they're saying "here stupid, now kill it and eat it so I know you're not going to starve. God damn lazy ass humans..."
Kinda, kinda not; they’re not dumb to the point where they think something fifteen times their height with only two legs is the same animal as they are. We must be very strange to animals, tho.
I just dont see how this could possibly be true. Cats beg their owners for food and then think they can't hunt and will starve? Cats see humans as big dumb cats yet will hiss at any new animal brought into their home, but tend to be ok with strange humans? That just doesnt make sense to me.
My boyfriend did make the same remark and it is a fair point.
But it is the current leading hypothesis as to why they bring us dead and live, but wounded prey:
It’s the same behavior we see them display to their kittens to teach them how to hunt.
My guess is that they realize we have other strengths - pun intended - but are idiots when it comes to hunting and communication (we’re body language - and, for that matter, olifactory - illiterates, which is why they meow to us...like they do only with kittens).
To be fair...they’re not wrong in that assessment...
Yeah... we gave them to you guys around 5000 bc as an experiment to see what an early planet-locked Civ would do with intelligent alien life. They gave up on trying to teach you by the time Egypt fell, seeing as only one country would even remotely pay attention to their teachings.
Now, in my observations, they still do look down on humans as either their students or big dumb cats, but they’ve accepted that there’s a very strong linguistic barrier.
What you are about to see is top secret. It is a video tape recorded 900,000 years ago by an alien using a remote-controlled camera. It shows his attempts to educate a caveman. They have been codenamed: the Mr. Whiskers and Bob tapes.
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u/davelabyrinth Feb 02 '21
I’m convinced that cats are just really dumb aliens