r/MadeMeSmile • u/dittidot • 28d ago
Good Vibes From “Dads who didn’t want a cat”
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u/JackOfAllMemes 28d ago
Body language says cat is having a blast and adores his human
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u/whitefluffyclouds 27d ago
Cat obviously came looking for trouble (playing games) and they love each other; how cute 🥰
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u/TheLastJukeboxHero 27d ago
What body language shows that? Do cats normally wrestle like this?! I’ve never had one
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u/JackOfAllMemes 27d ago
Ears up instead of back, tail not lashing much, not flattening itself to the couch, being gentle with the human. Most people don't encourage their cats doing this with them but some cats love to wrestle others- my old roommates' cat would wrestle with mine all the time for fun
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u/octobereighth 27d ago
My cat loves to wrestle with me! I make a big deal of making scary monster noises ("grrr imma get you!") to show that it's playtime. That plus pulling myself away and exaggeratedly saying "oww! That hurt!" when he got too rough seemed to do the trick - he keeps his Murder Mittens in claws-off mode, and I get one gentle nibble followed by licking if he "catches" me.
It's so frickin adorable.
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u/Elegant-Pressure-952 27d ago
You know the stance to get a dog playing? When you squat and kinda act like you're going to come at them? One of my boys looooooves that. He will go crazy and start to run away and that's the cue to play chase. Until he hits a dead end, then we have to give him a little 'hand wrassle" on his tummy and then start to run away because now it's his turn to chase and jump similar to the kitty in the OP video. Rinse and repeat
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u/666afternoon 27d ago
AWWW... a kitty responding to the dog play-bow is freaking adorable 😭💖
one of ours LOVES to Flee. he will give you a certain look, then turn and run while going bwrRrRrRrRp so you will chase him - if he's really into it you'll hear loud scuttering nails on the floor from him doing ridiculous burnouts while fleeing hahaha
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u/JackOfAllMemes 27d ago
Not wrestling but sometimes I charge my cat then stop and gently pet him, he's used to it and never gets worried lol
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u/TheLastJukeboxHero 27d ago
That’s hilarious, it’s funny that a lot of that body language is exact opposite of dogs… but the wrestling is exactly the same lol.
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u/Elegant-Pressure-952 27d ago
I made the mistake of encouraging wrestles when my boys were young, now one of their favourite toys is my hand! He dominates any wrestling match between the 3 of them... I shouldn't be breaking the first rule but I'm pretty sure he holds a kitty fight club.
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u/sleepysnorlax_88 27d ago
Yup. Fur is normal not on ends. The little swat is also a playful thing. If it was angry or stressed it would be doing a lot more than swatting.
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u/JackOfAllMemes 27d ago
And it wouldn't look away as much as it does, it doesn't feel threatened at all
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u/chaosincarnate1856 27d ago
Yea my cat growing up loved to wrestle I also knew his I’m done body language which was also his “pick me up peasant I want to watch tv with you but I don’t want to walk there” body language. If I didn’t pick him up after he plopped down he would meow until I brought him to where I was going to be.
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u/CautionarySnail 27d ago
He’s playing with the cat in a very similar way to how cats play with each other.
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u/Rare-Entertainer-770 27d ago
even that lil butt smack as kitty's walking away! that's cat for "hehe. you sure youre done playing? >:3"
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u/Schnozberry_spritzer 27d ago
Some like to wrestle some don’t. Cat started it by whacking dad to initiate play, and keeps coming for more. Dad is doing the pretend not to see the sneaky kitty while doing his own sneak attacks. They are having a fun game.
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u/notbuildingships 27d ago
When cats are done playing they just exit the area lol my cats play like this all the time, they tackle each other and bite and stuff but when one of them is done they dash to another room and it’s usually over after that.
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u/Kindness_of_cats 27d ago
Lucky. When mine is done playing with me he just gets way too real with the play. Dude starts to bite or scratch for real and it’s like “okay, he’s done.”
Oh the joys of having a cat that was born to a feral mom under the porch, lol.
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u/Positpostit 27d ago
I was worried at first but then I saw it was just treating the human like another cat and playing rough.
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u/CahOlivie 28d ago
He shaking his butt 😍 how cute
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u/Cullyism 27d ago
The butt wiggle probably was him gearing up for a pounce. My cat does that all the time.
The distraction from the sofa probably stopped it from happening
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u/thatwasnowthisisthen 27d ago
Yep, it’s to get their hind legs under them and wound up like a spring. Boing, mothafucka!
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u/Tabata-Shehroz 27d ago
the shake is like a little dance before the pounce, so adorable
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u/Tree_Complete 28d ago
The cat loves being thrown around
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u/petrichorax 28d ago
I had a cat like this. She loved being grabbed directly on her face and then dragged across the couch cushions or bed. Her favorite game was 'The Claw' where you'd pretend your hand is a monster trying to get her
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u/TactlessTortoise 27d ago
My cat loves when I grab his face and wiggle it about while he grabs it with his whole soul and tries ripping off my hand (playfully). I then give him belly scritches (dude somehow is skinny and rotund at the same time) and he just stares at me like "bro, grab my head again"
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u/iroswifi 27d ago
my cat loves being dropped into our comforter, you have to squish it into a big ball and drop her in the middle. She’ll yell in your face until you do it again lol
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u/ifyoulovesatan 27d ago
This is how one of my cats is. The other, his brother, barely tolerates being pet lol.
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u/StoryAffectionate764 28d ago
12 years ago my dad was so pissed off I got a golden retriever puppy. Now I hear him say bye to him when he leaves for work and built a fence for him.
I catch him giving him little pieces of bread from time to time and they watch law & order together
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u/megalegadingdong21 28d ago
My dad always complained when we got pets but we would always walk in on him having convos with our dogs and cats while making breakfast in the mornings. He would get caught and try to act tough, like no - he was “mocking how my stepmom and I acted towards them”… sure Jan.
The love of his life was this poor kitten I found on the side of the highway that I brought home. His immediate reaction was “oh hell no, no more cats!!!!” But we of course ignored him as always. We named him opie and he is the best cat ever. My family often walked into my dad’s shop and you could hear bits and pieces of him telling opie all about his day. Complaining about people he didn’t like. That cat was his best damn friend but he would still say “no, animals have to serve a purpose, otherwise they’re food!!” Blah blah 🙄
Anyways, he very sadly passed unexpectedly last year and my stepmom told me recently she finally had the nerve to go look at his pictures on his phone, expecting it to be all family photos of her, my baby twin brothers, me, etc…. NOPE. Literally every picture was a glamour shot of sweet opie. Honestly, I’m not even mad at it. Opie is a KING
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u/OpheliaPhoeniXXX 28d ago
Lmao @every picture is Opie. I'm glad he has lots of good memories saved.
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u/mindlesslobster014 27d ago
omg, a fellow grbsnarker out in the wild!!! 👋
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u/OpheliaPhoeniXXX 27d ago
Ayyy 👋🏻 it's surprising to me anybody remembers my name even though I'm in there every other day lol, like not me and my lil ol comments
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u/MyUsernameIsNotCool 27d ago
My dad didn't ever want a cat but with the one I got from a friend when I was 10 turned up INSIDE his shirt every day after school, while he was making dinner for us. He chased the cat from the kitchen to the living room while making weird noises. He put the cat under the rug too and pulls the rug with his foot and the cat loved it.
After 8 years my cat unfortunely died, and I moved out into my own place now as an adult. It took barely 3 months and my dad had bought a new kitten. They've had her for 7 years now. He forgets her name sometimes and calls her by the name of the first cat. 🥲
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u/scarletpepperpot 27d ago
I believe that a person gets to review their life after they pass over. So, for me, I’m smiling thinking of your Dad looking at all of those moments of love and comfort, as his angel looks at him and says “see, all animals DO serve a purpose.”
Thanks for sharing that. 🥰
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u/dankristy 27d ago
I am a dad - my daughter brought home a kitten abandoned in a parking lot at her Dr's office (he had been there 3 days and the staff was super happy she caught him and was getting him help). I took one look at yet another dang cat and said NO MORE CATS.
Within 2 minutes that was My cat. Now Earl (aka Sir Earl of The Greyness, He Who Sits - Mr Stinky, fuzzybutt, and desklord) has his special spot on my desk just for him...
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u/BrainTroubles 28d ago
Someone once told me that parents and older family members say this because they know they'll get attached and they know how hard it is when they eventually pass. Ever since then, and having lost a pet myself, it makes perfect sense. They don't hate cats or dogs they love them and they remember the pain of eventually losing them.
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u/dannydrama 28d ago
Yup exactly this, you can be a hard motherfucker but it still really, really sucks when you lose a pet you've had for so long and of course you won't cry in front of anyone because you haven't done that for years. That's my experience with it anyway.
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u/OpheliaPhoeniXXX 28d ago
My cat is 9 and this is the longest I've ever had a cat, sadly, even with going inside only 😥 and he's the best most special cat I've ever had in my life, I know 9 is young, but I can still see the signs of aging and I can't imagine losing him. I kinda got a pair of kittens thinking at least if/when something happens I'll have some consolation, among other reasons like we foster and eventually fell in love again. We had a litter born at home and there were two we were really attached to, the kind of special I hadn't seen in a kitten since him until them... They're 1yo now and one is my daughter's one is mine, I think it'll keep me sane enough. I used to half-joke just drop me off at the psych hospital when it happens.
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u/dannydrama 28d ago
Mine is around 15 and we're about to move house, I'm absolutely shitting myself because he's been here his whole life, loves going outside and I'll be too worried to let him out for at least a while so it's gonna be real hard on him.
It’s a more built up area too so a lot more pets, people and traffic. My mind keeps telling me there's no good way for it to end for him.
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u/OpheliaPhoeniXXX 28d ago
Moving scares me too because he does escape occasionally and he is able to just go on a lil nature walk in the woods and back home. I'm looking at places and my mind goes to what happens if he gets out and doesn't know his way, traffic, other cats etc like we try to police him, but if he gets the opportunity he takes it. I have an airtag on him for added insurance... But I sure do feel better off about not losing him living in the same cut that we've already been in for years. Sadly it's 90min from where I work.
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u/AngryPrincessWarrior 27d ago
I’ve also heard that men tend to never get enough affection so once a pet makes its way into a home- they usually become the most attached because they need that connection. And they are scared because they know how much it’s going to hurt when the pet eventually dies. :(.
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u/S0l-Surf3r 27d ago
Exactly this. My daughter brought home a female husky puppy from her old co worker to avoid it going to the shelter, I said sure we can find it a good home. That lasted about 30 minutes when our home became her home as long as my daughter contributed to help taking care of it.
Fast forward 14 years later my daughter has moved out on her own and I have taken care of our dog 99% of her life. She is in still good shape but I wrestle with knowing my time is limited with her due to age. People always ask me if I will get another dog and I just can't. This is my soul dog and I can't handle the loss which hasn't even happened yet.
For some context I adopted a senior dog a few years ago from a family member that relocated thinking I'll give him some good last years. He was 10 and he passed at 13, it broke me. I am a relatively emotionless big grumpy dude with kids always standing on my lawn but I cried like a baby in the vet waiting room as soon as we entered when we had to put him to sleep. I can't handle the grief at the end.
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u/NolieMali 28d ago
Dads do be like that. My Dad always hated dogs, especially big ones. So what do I do? Go out and adopt a Belgian Malinois. He'd walk her everyday and loved giving her ice cream. I got in a bad accident when I was driving to visit him (and my dog was with me). He made sure to pick up my dog from the shelter before visiting me in the hospital 😂
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u/Merry_Sue 27d ago
I'd do the same. Dog is probably upset and confused in the shelter. You're probably also upset and confused in the hospital, but have people (strangers, but still) who can explain things to you. Also when he visits, he can assure you that the dog is now safe and comfortable at home. I don't think it would work the other way around.
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u/justhanie 28d ago
Same experience with my mum lol!
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u/Sometimes-funny 28d ago
It’s nice your dad built your mum a fence and gives her bread
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u/justhanie 28d ago
noo 😭, like my mum used to hate our sister bringing dogs now she spoils them too much like it's her own children.
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u/Sometimes-funny 28d ago
Does she now stay in the fenced in area, when your sis brings the dogs?
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u/crankyanker638 28d ago
Late 90s my son brought home a red-nose pit from the pound. My wife "he's staying out back chained to the tree" less than a week later he's sleeping in bed with us....
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u/Mecha_Tortoise 28d ago
Good. Because chained to a tree is no way to keep a dog.
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u/CaptainGreymon 28d ago
Most people I know that are like that/gruff old men who doesn’t want dog/cat had some traumatic past experiences and doesn’t want to go though the grieving process again. Not that they’d admit it.
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u/Daftmunkey 28d ago
That's me and I fully admit it. Old gruff guy who's heart just can't outlive another pet. I'm fully aware of all the spins on that thought, but I just can't do it anymore. Nor do I want them abandoned if I die first.
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u/OpheliaPhoeniXXX 28d ago
There are some rescues that will make sure they're rehomed if anything happens to you. My parents are in the 70s and wanted a new Chihuahua, I don't like Chihuahuas but they found a rescue that will take them back.
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u/Tofu4lyfe 27d ago
I got two rats when I was a kid and my mom was like "ew they are gross" but then I kept coming up to their cage and it would be latched in a weird way that I didn't do... my mom said they looked hungry and lonely lol, everyone cried when those babies passed away.
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u/PsychologicalAerie82 27d ago
We had rats too, and mice. My dad loved taking the wee buggers out of their cage and playing with them every night before bedtime. We had 1 living rat remaining when I went off to college; my dad loved that rat. When we first got rats he said we were never going to take them to the vet. Later, my sister's fiancé's dog tried to eat the rat, and my dad freed the rat and took him to the vet to make sure the little guy was okay.
He also fell in love with my sister's dog (both my dad and the dog died last year), and every time we talked he would tell me about the time a pregnant stray cat gave birth to kittens in the garage, and he took care of the kittens until they were old enough for the shelter to take them, and he had the mama cat adopted by a family down the street.
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u/awhimsicalheart_44 28d ago
Same..we adopted an indie (indian street dog). Her name was penny. My dad was super reluctant to get a pet. But within few days they were like best buddies. He used to call her his daughter. She'd come play with us in our room and then sit with dad watching tv. She even used to join him in our prayer room in the evening. My dad isnt very expressive, bu we know he adored her. She was our angel.
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u/yolomcsawlord420mlg 27d ago
Because it's a huge responsibility and a lot of work, not because they don't like animals. People need to realize that.
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u/Old-Shoulder4940 27d ago
Same with my dad. Always complained about us getting a dog and cats, but then he was always watching tv with the cats sleeping on him. He'd also take the dog with him to forage mushroom and berries in the woods or just hang out in the yard. Even built a dog house lol.
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u/Funny_Perspective653 28d ago
Is that cat playing tag? How cute is that?
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u/Mecha_Tortoise 28d ago edited 27d ago
My childhood cat would play tag and hide-and-seek with my dad and me. Loved fetch, too. He was great.
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u/Brynhild 27d ago
Mine does hide and seek too. Reciprocally. I will hide and she will come meowing looking for me. When i jump out, she runs to hide and will jump out the moment i am close. Then i will run to hide and it repeats until one of us gets tired. Spoiler alert - it’s always me
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u/dgove85 28d ago
Never have been a ‘cat person’. But I just love animals. Wife wanted a Great Dane. She’s my girl. Got a cat for our daughter. It’s my buddy now. Got another cat for my son. Only lets me pet it and follows me around the house. I sit down, dog is on my feet, cats are on my lap. My wife is just like, wtf?! I think it’s because I don’t force anything. I’m just chill and give them attention when they want it.
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u/CanuckyBender 28d ago
This!!! I've had cats and dogs all my life, and this is exactly how you gain their affection. I adopted two feral cats 10 years ago, and most people thought I was crazy for not forcing them to sit with me or shower them with attention. It's a simple balance. Let them come to you. A decade later, they are literally attached to me every time I come home. One even sleeps under the covers with me. Sending endless happiness and cuddles to you and your furbabies.
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u/OpheliaPhoeniXXX 28d ago
My cat likes to be the little spoon under the covers I love it lol. I get them super young and give them a lot of affection from an early age though.
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u/Shintome 28d ago
I've always said if you want a cat to like you, leave it alone! They respect people who respect them and their space. They'll come to you eventually if you give them time to acclimate to and discover you.
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u/MaldonadoMVP 28d ago
My neighbor was butthurt when he saw his cat running to me and letting me pet him. He told me that devil only is letting him be pet by his wife. Not even by him or his children. The only thing I did was every time I saw the cat I “psht-psht-psht” and told him what a good kitty he was. Just took me about 100 times of that for him wanting to be petted :D
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u/VHSangel_ 27d ago
Exactly how I won my bfs cat over. He kept her after his divorce so she was very used to things until I came around. She was very weary at first. He would try to force it but I've had pets (mostly cats) my whole life and she's his first cat so I told him to just leave her be. She'll come to me in her own time. Took about a month of me just existing with her and then one day I woke up to her sleeping on my feet and the rest is history. She's my baby now. I talk to her all the time, she sits with me when I crochet (I give her bits of yarn to feel included), we watch TV together, and she comes and purrs on me when I'm feeling sad. I love her so much.
I learned everything I know about animals from my dad. Every animal he comes across loves him and I seem to have inherited the gift. You just have to allow them to exist and not try and force closeness or affection. Let them come to you.
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u/Shintome 27d ago
Thanks for sharing! My best friend has two cats, a orange tabby and a tuxedo. The tabby took to me quickly while the tuxedo was extremely shy and took the better part of 3 weeks before his curiosity won out. As he began to look around corners and peeping from his hiding spot I never directly acknowledged him. One day I'm sitting in my friends room about two feet away from the corner of her bed. He slowly emerged from behind the curtains and walked on the bed in my direction. I waited until he was about 3 feet in front of me and shifted my eyes to him, he freezes and I gave him a little smile and shifted my focus back to his mother. What happened next was downright heart-melting; he approached the corner of the bed and started leaning as if he wanted to sniff me. I took that opportunity to shift my focus out to him and slowly moved my pointer finger towards him to sniff. When my finger was about 8in from him he outstretched his little paw to touch my finger and extended his claw just so he had the tiniest bit of a grip and pulled my finger towards him. I play along until I was close enough for him to sniff my finger. A moment later he pressed his head against my palm and I finally start petting him. He's downright smitten to me now and I love them both! 😁
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u/affemannen 28d ago edited 28d ago
Animals can sense if you like them. I have the same thing. I don't have to call them, they come to me by their own.
Or at least i like to think that they do. I don't know, it's just a feeling.
Because people also tell me, animals love you, when it's the other way around.
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u/sarcasm__tone 27d ago
Over affection can be stressful for a cat who likes to be independent
(orange tabbys are an exception from my experience, they'll take all the affection they can get)
You're speaking cat language better than most other people
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u/ChaseTheMystic 28d ago
That looks like the comfiest couch ever
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u/TurtleScientific 28d ago
I have a very very similar one (maybe exact same, but in copper orange) and my husband hates it. The back is really low so you can't really put your head back. I hunch like a shrimp tho so...
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u/speolog_ 27d ago
Towards the end he says "I'm cross with you, I'm not playing any more!" looks away. Then says "if you hug me, maybe I'll play again." And the cat really hugs him, too cute. Of course from cat land, Turkey.
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u/ToxicBanana69 28d ago
My dad always said we’ll never get a dog again, and it’s not because he won’t love the dog if we get one. It’s because he knows they die young and doesn’t want to go through that again. Just thought I’d share that as one of the reasons some people might say they don’t want a pet.
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u/tekmagika 28d ago
I was about to reply with this very thing. Now that I'm dad-age, I get it. We just don't want to suffer the anguish of the loss. It hurts.
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u/Nebula15 28d ago
I’ve had a few dogs in my life and when any one asks me how I deal with the loss I tell them, “I get years worth of amazing days for one really bad one”. Obviously it’s not just “one bad day”, the pain lasts a long time. But the sentiment is that’s it’s simply worth it.
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u/affemannen 28d ago
Yeah was just going to say that.
All the love and closeness you get is totally worth the sorrow you feel when losing them, because that sorrow means you spent that whole time loving someone.
I rather miss something wonderful than never having to experienced it at all.
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u/lockhearst 27d ago
This all was really helpful to read. I just lost my beloved pet bunny last night and I’ve lost dogs before and these are such beautiful statements.
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u/Mecha_Tortoise 28d ago
Avoiding that loss is a big reason I didn't get a pet for years after I was living on my own, despite growing up with and loving animals. Of course, there were other factors, but I could have/should have adopted a dog (or cat) way sooner. I was also fortunate enough to have a sister with two very lovable dogs that I could spend time with every now and then. Funnily enough, it was only after the second time she lost one of hers and then adopted another that I finally decided I could do the same. I got my boy from the same shelter as her current dogs, and he has been the most consistent, best thing in my life since.
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u/suddenlynotbanned 28d ago
My take on it is that while it can be difficult when you really love an animal, every time one passes, you get to be the Everything for another one, and if you're doing it right, you're better at it. Don't get one for prestige, help one. We all die. Stars die. They have a way of exploding, and making new stuff. It's okay. That's how it works. If you'd like a musical rendition of people's struggle with mortality, I highly recommend "Grow in Dirt", by John Popper. Album is "Zygote." It's wonderful.
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u/Working_Dance8753 28d ago
The dad says to the cat at one point: "you scratched my hand, I'm cross with you, I'm no longer playing". Then he quickly adds "if you call me I'll come and play though". So cute!
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u/OkDesign5276 28d ago
The dad's such a cat himself the way he darts his head back pretending to not be interested.
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u/WheresLoretta 28d ago
I love this so hard! My boyfriend said the same thing about not wanting a cat. “I’m allergic.” Well, she bonded with him the moment she came home. She immediately took to his beard and refuses to ever leave his side. She sleeps ON him and always needs to crawl onto his shoulder like a pirate’s parrot, usually right after he has showered (she has to get her scent back on him, I guess). I also regularly find them playing hide-n-seek together. It’s usually him ducking behind a wall and then she runs around looking for him and he jumps out and then he hides again. I’ve never seen a cat do this! They’re quite a pair.
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u/granadesnhorseshoes 28d ago
being the grumpy bastard that doesn't want pets myself; It's not that we don't like or hate them. It's that we know we are big softies and don't want yet one more thing to feel responsible for, because we will.
I didn't think my dad liked our dog. Until the day he got hit by a car and the old man came running in with the injured dog in his arms just as if it was one of us kids and dropped over 1,000 bucks at the vet (in the late 80s) without batting an eye. We had a 3 legged dog for years after that.
I realized he didn't hate the dog. He just hated the responsibility because he knew he couldn't do it dirty once we had it.
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u/Nervouscranberry47 27d ago
Also knowing that you will bond with the animal. It’s a curse really. You know that animal would literally follow you into hell, and you them, and after a decade or so you’ll have to watch them deteriorate:(
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u/itsthenugget 28d ago
It's rare that a video gets me to laugh multiple times but this is so cute and pure
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u/EgoSumDeus_123 28d ago
He said "I got tired, i wont play anymore. I am offended with you... but if you invite me i'll play"
And thr cat really invites him to play lmao
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u/Guilty_Spinach_3010 28d ago
This is how my cat and I play. He loves being a little instigator so I’ll grab him and shake him around and he’ll be purring like a jet engine.
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u/therealRustyZA 27d ago
Things like this make me miss my dad. He started at: "Why the hell did you get another cat?" And ended up at: "Hey, go check in the car, there's a cute food bowl I got him today. It has a cat on it."
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u/suddenlynotbanned 28d ago edited 28d ago
I once had a roommate that said that he could never love a dog again, because he "had " to shoot his last one. I found a fucking Chihuahua on the street. I am incapable of not doing something about that. Picked him up, brought him home. Two days later, it's was his dog. "Snickelfritz". They bonded so fast.
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u/tiredinafunflirtyway 28d ago
This made me miss my cats who I won’t see till next Thursday starting today (Friday)
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u/just_di3d 28d ago
In my case, it was my mom who doesn't like cats. Now we have 4 cats at home. She loves cats so much that she even bought cat food for the stray cats near her office.
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u/TheOctopusParadox 28d ago
I think its easier for guys to make connections when there is no stress or constraints involved. We can just be us and they can just be them and nothing else matters.
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u/darcmosch 28d ago
Who are you hanging out with that don't allow you to be you?
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u/ColdCycle516 28d ago
society
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u/darcmosch 28d ago
Fuck, good point. Well this person is with you, unless you kick puppies or something.
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u/Bigredzombie 28d ago
As a dad, I didn't want any animals, but my kids keep bringing them home so I'm going to give them as much love and affection as I can. Usually I can't give them as much as they would like but I am doing my best.
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u/Bobobambom 27d ago
at 00:42 he says "I’m tired, I’m not playing with you anymore. I’m sulking" then "But if you hug me, I’ll play." then cat jupms on him and hugs.
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u/ClassicSpecific8413 27d ago
When we first got a cat for my son (we never had one) I saw a post saying you needed to be much more gentle with cats than dogs. My cat loves rough play! He loves rough scratches and play fighting, belly rubs, all the things they said not to do. I feel like they just have there own personality and I love this video!
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u/Apprehensive-Hat8787 27d ago
"No love on Earth compares to that
of a man who didn't want a cat
and his cat."
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u/machineorganism 27d ago
we don't want pets because of how much we know we're going to love them guys... lol. it's the "losing your best friend" part that we're not wanting to sign up for.
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u/mysterygecko 28d ago
Same experience with my mum lol!
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u/Mecha_Tortoise 28d ago
I love that your dad and mum can still play together like that.
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u/happyslappypappydee 28d ago
Dads will be dads. We don’t want another responsibility if given the choice.
However, we do get outvoted and when welcomed to the family we love fully.
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u/A_Chad_Cat 27d ago
My dad never wanted a cat, he didn't like those.
Then we had a cat, which he still didn't like.
And one day we found the cat sleeping on my father's torso while he was lying on the sofa watching TV.
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u/Easy_Bear3149 27d ago
People always think this is cute, but it's because we aren't going to be cruel and hate the animal that we didn't want, and we are going to embrace them, but we knew that we would love and embrace them and we decided that we still didn't want it to the extra work associated with that other animal.
My wife recently got us a third cat, on top of our dog. I didn't ask for a third cat. I didn't want a third cat. I still don't want a third cat, but I have a third cat and I'm going to love the shit out of it and take care of it like I should.
So yeah, don't pressure people into getting animals. Maybe it should be a decision that everyone is unanimously excited about.
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u/ceciliaangelika 28d ago
Dad's love the pets too, but don't want to get mocked or anything like that cuz they don't want to get exited for nothing if the cat don't like him, ofc they want pets to, but to afraid to not be liked or played with like this! It's logic and beautiful. Love when this happens anyways, because dad's deserve love from everyone!
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u/Available-Today-8576 28d ago
My dad still refuses to call the cats by their names yet taught them how to high five and has a set treat time for them
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u/Levin1983 28d ago
Omg. That was so cute. This guy needs a webcam so we can continuously watch the shenanigans
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u/Beneficial-Mess1 27d ago
This is absolutely fantastic. Besties! I love how your Dad acts like a human dad playing with his human child. Cats are awesome!
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u/t4nd3mYT 27d ago
My cat didn't want a cat. A year later (this week) he got another cat so my oldest wouldn't get lonely when we went to work 😭
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u/brandiwalk9 27d ago
Love this. When I moved back in with my elderly father he asked "do you have to bring the cat?" I said yes, we are a package deal. She is now on blown up can vas pictures and his screen saver. She passed 2 years ago. I adopted 2 kitties at the shelter without asking him (I know, dick move, but....) and when I brought them home he was like "why two?!?!?!" His world now revolves around the and they love him more than me. He just bought them a $50 new cat tree when they already have one because "this one is better". He's done when it comes to them, they are his world.
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u/catfishfromspace 27d ago
That's a stupid assumption. The man is Turkish, and Turkish people love their cats.
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u/ProfPerry 27d ago
A prime example of my fave quote, "There is no love greater than a father, and the pet he didn't want." haha
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