All cats do something. What does yours do while you try to play WoW?
One of mine wants this fly so bad, can’t get it, and is now yelling at it.
Did you know that cats only meow because they’re neotenic? We infantalize cats by continuing to provide them resources similar to how their mother would, but into adulthood. The more comfortable they feel with meowing for resources, the more they’ll do it. The cat thinks it should meow to get resources. So, logically, if it meows at the resource, the resource should hand itself over to the cat. Thus cat yell at fly.
I have three.
One is shy but loves on me at night time when I’m working late.
One is a lap-cat and loves attention, always up on people.
The other is a blend of the two.
Here’s an old picture of my female though (the shy one): https://i.imgur.com/AQ8bdMh.jpeg
She got stuck inside a cinder-block wall upside down as a kitten, had to smash a hole into our garage to get her out. She was worth it though.
There used to be a pack of stray cats at my last job, and they’d come out at night more. I used to sometimes try and communicate with them. Gave them some food once in a while, but never heard them meow. I got a few eye kisses though.
I have no cats. Alas, I’m allergic. So I’m reporting in on my dogs.
We do have two dogs – a ten-year-old Pomeranian/Chihuahua mix, and a two-year-old Australian Shepherd. The Aussie often wants head pats while I’m … doing anything, really. The elder dog sometimes just sits down by my feet, especially when she’s feeling harassed by the younger, bigger dog.
I have my wife’s and the thing it can do is not get caught by my guard dogs. I have two of those caucasian shepherds, if you know the breed, they are very large and tend to be very aggressive towards things that enter their territory and any woodland critter that enters my yard, well, I find very little bits of what’s left. This cat tempts fate, often. It just parades all relaxed and careless in front of them like it’s trying to annoy them and it works cause it drives them nuts. One day they are gonna catch her, I keep telling my wife and I won’t be able to do a damned thing about it, even if my knee wasn’t messed up I’d still not be able to get to it in time. She won’t send the cat back to her parents. Anyway, when the cat’s luck runs out, it’s on her not me.
She likes to beat up the huskies, seriously, they are afraid of her.
She’s really grouchy and old, so I guess she’s allowed to do this.
The are always stalking small wildlife in the backyard, but they run from the cat.
Both of mine like to sit near me at the least. I have a couch type thing near my PC, so they will often rest all curled up together on that. Sometimes the short haired tabby one (Loki) wants pets and I will have to reach down and scratch him, and rarely he will curl up my lap. My fluffy tuxedo boy (Tesla) curls up on my lap all the time, and lets me know he wants up by yelling at me loudly from beside the chair. If that doesn’t work he will start softly nipping at my ankles.
The tuxedo boy has wiped many a raid. It started in Wildstar when he was young and would like to walk on the desk. I trained him out of that after kittenhood, but not before he ran me over the lip of the last bosses pit in Genetic Archives at least once. Now he likes to occasionally bat at my earbuds or just stand up to try and get comfortable randomly.
On the plus side, the fluffy boy is really nice for keeping my fingers warm between pulls in the winter.
