Your friend is ignorant of true cat behavior and copacity to feel. They do not forget us when we are gone. They may not be as co-dependent as a dog, but they definitely miss us and they do remember.... Trust me. When I moved away from home, our family cat Angel never forgot me and would always come up to me and do our usual head butt, he never did that with anyone else, but he never forgot our special thing and sometimes he wouldn't see me but once a year! And as for eating you when you die... In some cases, yes. But that's only if you are left there for a long time. Animal nature says to clean up anything that could attract bad predators.Because i do not crazy love though! .
And my friend told me that's not healthy and he will forget you if your gone and will eat you if you die :S
But i don't care i will love him even if he hated me
So, I wonder if you (and many others) would think I have a SERIOUS "problem?"It's normal to love our pets, but the problem in my mind starts when we forget they are animals and start treating them like humans, and expecting them to behave like humans.
The exact wording was "start treating them like humans, and expecting them to behave like humans." You can treat your cat like a human all you want, but you have to realize that your cat is not capable of reciprocating complex emotions like the love that you are giving it. Basically, remember that they are pets and not people, because it is just as unfair to your cat as it is to you if you expect more from it than it is capable of.So, I wonder if you (and many others) would think I have a SERIOUS "problem?"
But then again, perhaps I don't really understand what it means to "treat them like humans."
I don't see why people look down on cats for that. Humans have eaten pets and even other humans, when the alternative was starving to death. A cat shut in an empty apartment with a dead owner is in just as desperate a situation as any of the humans who've been forced to eat their dead. If anything, I'd feel sorry for the cat. I don't know that a cat can be traumatized by that kind of experience, because it depends mostly on whether they attach sentimental value to the bodies of loved ones; but they can certainly be traumatized by losing a friend and being left all alone.However if we are dead and they are very hungry I expect they may well eat us. Ditto dogs.
Not to take the thread off-topic, but did you read that thread on Caboodle Ranch? Yes, having digital medical records connected to all micro-chipped cats would be a great way to start, rather than upgrade to that status. But they were in the process of doing just that at the time of the raid orchestrated by PETA.One other thing. You do NOT want to be like Caboodle Ranch in Florida. http://www.thecatsite.com/t/241779/...news-rescue-efforts-underway-to-save-the-cats
I read it when that thread was going on, but no, I didn't reread it before linking it. I guess most of the bad stuff I heard was from other sites that I went to after reading that thread, because I remember the issue being way more serious than that, with diseased and dying cats, no fences to keep out coyotes, cats living in their own filth, etc.Not to take the thread off-topic, but did you read that thread on Caboodle Ranch? Yes, having digital medical records connected to all micro-chipped cats would be a great way to start, rather than upgrade to that status. But they were in the process of doing just that at the time of the raid orchestrated by PETA.
PETA are scum. Some of the criminal acts they have been guildy of in the UK are beyond belief....
PETA.
I have not read it yet, nor have I read any accounts of the seizure, but I have seen several videos on the internet of Caboodle Ranch.I read it when that thread was going on, but no, I didn't reread it before linking it. I guess most of the bad stuff I heard was from other sites that I went to after reading that thread, because I remember the issue being way more serious than that, with diseased and dying cats, no fences to keep out coyotes, cats living in their own filth, etc.
No, you are not a bad Mom, unless you quit being nice to Ritz.Back on topic, too, but different question: am I bad Mom if I start liking the cat I am fostering a bit too much, and wishing my resident cat had some of my foster's personality (very affectionate, calm, submissive) and glad the resident cat does NOT have some of foster ca's habits (meows loudly a LOT)? I not a parent to humans, but I never bought "love you differently but equally" idea. I'm afraid Ritz will be irreparably jealous, sad. It's the first time too Ritz has been around another cat. Thanks.
I love your way of thinking, I'm a new cat owner and I feel the same way ....So, I wonder if you (and many others) would think I have a SERIOUS "problem?"
But then again, perhaps I don't really understand what it means to "treat them like humans."
I don't ask them to read the mail for me, or expect them to understand a joke on "The Big Bang Theory"
or an Interstellar Physics concept on "How the Universe Works."
But then again, many people are not intelligent enough to understand those shows.
On the other hand, I certainly do talk to them, and sometimes they understand.
In fact, they come when called, give a paw, give the other paw, sit up, etc...
and my Kitties understand both English and Japanese versions of these requests.
I feed them as well as or better than I feed myself.
There are VERY few people on the Earth who I'd rather spend time with than my Kitties.
My Kitties would never do anything intentionally to undermine or hurt me...
wish I could say the same for people.
If our house caught fire, I'd make sure my Wife was aware of it,
but I would scramble to gather and get my Kitties out of the house -
she can clearly understand that she needs to leave - they might not.
If a car lost control and was heading for a group consisting of some friends, family and one of my Kitties
and I only had time to save one living being, my friends and family would be on their own.
Here again, I'd make sure they knew the car was coming, but they can understand what would happen
if they fail to move out of the way, whereas my Kitty might not realize the consequences of that mistake.
So, after more careful consideration, I see that I don't "treat them like humans,"
it seems clear that I treat them BETTER than I treat humans.
If you get the impression that my kitties are more important to me than people, you would be absolutely correct.
After reading some articles and doing some careful consideration about finding my "purpose in life" about two years ago,
it became clear to me that the thing I most want to accomplish is helping as many Kitties as possible to have happy, healthy lives.
My long term goal is to be able to have a Rescue for unadoptable Kitties,
something like "Caboodle Ranch" in Florida or "Cat House on the Kings" in California,
although hopefully with far fewer residents, so it does not become unmanageable.
If anyone wants to consider that to be a "problem" or "not normal" that is your right.
Please do not be upset however, if your opinion does not hurt my feelings.