• Janx@piefed.social
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    12 days ago

    Becca also watched this cat arrange their paws for five minutes. Who actually wasted their time? No one, that’s who.

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      12 days ago

      when did it become acceptable to just call everything autism? i can tell you im pretty damn sick of it and it hasnt even been that long.

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        12 days ago

        Same thing happened with OCD as well. It’s just natural changes in language. This one will pass as well and there will be a new word in a few years

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          12 days ago

          true all around

          edit … on second thought, im not sure i agree its a “natural change in language” so much as it is a cultural meme that people just thoughtlessly parrot. so, i feel language hasnt changed so much as a term of the moment has. but anyway, im rambling. cheers.

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            11 days ago

            so much as it is a cultural meme that people just thoughtlessly parrot.

            Honestly, I think that’s a big part of how language naturally evolves

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              11 days ago

              agreed, but individual terms trending or not, dont equate a “change of the language” so much as a change of whats trending in said language. a semantic nitpick, to be sure. :)

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    It is funny how much cats enjoy different surfaces, leave out a notebook? Come out and a cat is sitting/laying on it, box left out? There’s a cat in there now.

    Piece of paper? You guessed it, cat butt plopped right down.

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      12 days ago

      My cat builds himself entire nests out of loose paper he finds laying around. We’ve come home to find him nestled on the middle of the couch on top of sheets of paper, looking very proud of himself.

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        12 days ago

        Haha, semi-similar there was wrapping paper on the floor, he had clearly chewed it up/ripped it up and similarly made a nest of sorts on the pile. Cats are silly.

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        Same with mine. I started tossing that thin brown packing paper from deliveries into a corner behind an armchair. It’s like his own little paper jungle and he loves it. Just have to remember to fluff it occasionally and pull out the old stuff.

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        11 days ago

        My cats do not gaf, though I have heard that mentioned before as a way to try and train them to not get on certain surfaces.

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      The days before vacation our cats were in or on luggage at all times. My cat (we all get one…so far) is a on someone’s article of clothing. If there’s no hoodie or jacket laying around he’ll use a pile of laundry right next to a perfectly good cat bed.

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    11 days ago

    “Why you ask ? Do you not realize how dirty this chair is ? I rub my butthole all over it all the time !” -cat

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    12 days ago

    Is it the sound? My cat’s absolute favorite toy was a felt ball with crinkly, noisy plastic in it. But she also loved sitting on card stock laid on soft surfaces.

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      All my cats have liked crinkly things. Maybe because it instinctively reminds them of the rustling of prey in grass?