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The 27 Naughtiest Cats In The World... And I Can't Stop Laughing
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arcane1
(38,613 posts)It will be difficult to purge that mental image
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)but never understood the concept of cat "shaming". Cat's are incapable of shame.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Bandit
(21,475 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)genwah
(574 posts)they can decrease the local squirrel population as well.
Hekate
(90,619 posts)By the way -- cats have no sense of shame, otherwise they'd be dogs.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)They just know that you stop scolding them if htey look guilty.
Hekate
(90,619 posts)We've been breeding dogs for so many thousands of years that they learn to read our body language, including facial expressions, and in many cases mimic our emotions. I think they do feel very similar emotions to ours.
Cats, not so much.
I like them both, but their natures are very different. I currently only have a dog because I've become allergic to cats.
For an excellent insight into the relationship of cats to humans (and of dogs to humans) read Rudyard Kipling's "The Cat Who Walked By Himself" in Just So Stories. Hadn't read it in a couple of decades, but did so for my grandson last year and laughed and laughed at First Dog putting his head in First Woman's lap to beg while the Cat just twitched his tail and walked off...