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| Humans shoot rabbits:nobody calls them psychopaths. |
All cats are somewhat psychopathic? So say the human newspapers in a gross slur on cats. Read it here. Psychopathic? Ridiculous. A typical example of dumb humans loading their preconceptions on to the feline species.
I am so cross about this that I would like to write a letter to the newspaper. But my paws just won't work correctly. What can I do? Well I could nip, bite or scratch to express my feelings of frustration against the human race.
Their "thinking" (if you can call it that) goes like this. Human psychopaths are 1) predatory: 2) manipulative and 3) without empathy. We cats are all those things because we have to be, living with humans.
Predatory? Yes. I catch mice and rats. This is what we do as cats. It is how we survived before the advent of cat food in a bowl. So we catch birds? They eat birds like chicken and turkey and duck.
Manipulative? Yes. How else am I going to get my human to do what I want? Or how else am I going to stop them doing what i don't want? So I purr, rub, or nip or bite. It is my only option since I can't use the human language.
Without empathy or callous? Not fair. I try to understand their feelings, but they express them in such an odd way. They just keep blahblahing at me but I can't understand their language. Their vocalisations are too complex: their body language is not at all expressive: and they hide their natural body scent communications by standing under water, adding artificial scents and flushing away the urine and faeces which I could otherwise get a message from.
There are times when I despair of dumb humans. They are so STUPID.
Lots of humans (and even dogs) are manipultive and not psychopaths...for one thing, if you are not as strong as the authority figure (including parents) you have to do what you can to keep yourself safe and/or happy.
ReplyDeleteOur mom saw a very derogatory article on cats the other da. What's wrong with some humans?
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