• Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.orgEnglish
    43·
    1 month ago

    What I like is that they’re low maintainance in general but you can still invest a lot of emotional labour if you want to have a closer bond. There’s so many levels of how much a cat trusts you. Never gets boring.

  • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
    29·
    1 month ago

    Cats know their names after a while but often do not care to react to them (or at least not in the way the human wants)

    • SupaTuba@lemm.ee
      12·
      1 month ago

      When his little ears turn backwards to me as soon as he hears his name…

      But, alas, I could not name him the sound that treats make in the bag…else he’d be running towards me without fail…

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
      8·
      1 month ago

      Yes. That’s why cats get along well with various magical kin. The cat learns their true name, but has the decency never to speak it.

  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
    23·
    1 month ago

    I was thinking the other day how my cat probably has no idea what my name is after four years. I live alone, and she hides whenever someone comes over. Lol

    • Maalus@lemmy.world
      7·
      1 month ago

      Mine picked up on my name quickly. Then I trained him to use buttons and he correctly can understand that the button for my name means he wants my attention / denotes ownership of something. I.e “<catname> food” and “<myname> food” which means he leaves it alone. Often says shit like “<catname> <myname> lets play” or “<myname> pets <catname>”.

      • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
        7·
        1 month ago

        My dad would tell the cat we had when I was young that “<my name> is home” when I drove past the front window into the driveway and he’d take off to go wait for me at the door. He didn’t do that for anyone else. I miss that cat.

        • PNW clouds@infosec.pub
          5·
          1 month ago

          My parents lived next door to my grandma. Mom would say “wanna go to Grandma’s” to her cat and he’d jump up on a speaker beside the door to be picked up and carried. Grandma would make him a scrambled egg or give him some tuna.

          After Mom passed away, I was visiting Dad and thought I’d try “Wanna go to Grandma’s?” He jumped up and let me carry him to Grandma’s and back. (After his scrambled egg, of course) He lived to be 21 so I carried to him see Grandma everytime I visited.

  • Asafum@feddit.nl
    211·
    1 month ago

    The more I see a posts involving someone making up songs for their cat the more glad i am to know I’m not that crazy since apparently many other people do it too lol

    I have made many “widdle kitty” remixes lol

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 month ago

    mine is more like;

    we don’t get along. she bites me. we hug. she bites me. I make up little dialogue for her. she bites me. we’re best friends. she bites me.