Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Is my huma getting too clever?


I love sitting on the windowsill. What cat doesn't. I am an indoor cat so I need to spend time enjoying sight.
 

But I am not sure that I like my human writing about it (here). She seems determined to give away various cat secrets. 

Do we want our humans to understand us? In one ways, yes, of course we do. We want them to notice when we are hungry for food. We want them also to understand when we want to be petted and when we want to be left alone.

But, if they begin to understand us too much, it might not always work to our advantage. They might begin to refuse us food, when we tell them we are starving (and of course we are not starving at all!!). 

If they began to read our body language (not just our meows), they might know when we were deceiving them. So I worried a bit about the latest substack Celia had written about windows and cats.

Then later on, I began to think my anxiety was not justified. Humans are just dumb animals, with the emphasis on the dumb. They are stupid. Let's face it, everything about the way they are messing up our world proves that.....

Celia is just showing off. 

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