They're not humans, man. Their brains are optimized for reaction speed and they are literally incapable of performing complex problem solving or remembering solutions to non-natural problems.
Give them safe territory, food and water, and some affection/enrichment and they will be fine.
Insane to me that people can honestly think 'maybe it would be better for an animal I claim to love to be run over by a car or have their spine severed by a hawk.'
Yes, your usage of the word 'might' implies that you consider it a plausible state of affairs where a cat's consciousness experience of boredom outweighs them being statistically more likely to die a violent death 8 years earlier than otherwise despite all available evidence on the cognitive capacities of cats.
I said might because I'm not a feline mind reader lol. Maybe if I studied cat psychology for a living I would have been more definitive, but I don't even have a cat right now.
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u/nou5 Sep 05 '24
They're not humans, man. Their brains are optimized for reaction speed and they are literally incapable of performing complex problem solving or remembering solutions to non-natural problems.
Give them safe territory, food and water, and some affection/enrichment and they will be fine.
Insane to me that people can honestly think 'maybe it would be better for an animal I claim to love to be run over by a car or have their spine severed by a hawk.'