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Anonymous
"When they kiss you on the lips, when they lick your face or your eyes ,when they rub noses , when they look right at you and close their eyes very slowly when they curl up right next to you and go to sleep ,when they rub their scent on you after you come back in the house , when they know that you have had a bad day and curl up in your lap when they follow you from room to room , when they give you love bites on your hand and then lick your hand afterwards . all of these things are kitty kisses hope this helps some ."

is this true /an/?
>> Anonymous
Enjoy your yiff.
>> menchi !IgWlr3a0sk
I was running a fever last night, and my kitten knew I wasn't feeling well. he ran right over and curled up against me and stayed there till I got up.. and he kept coming up by my face to check on me, then he'd curl back up by my hip.
animals know when you don't feel well.
quite fascinating
>> Anonymous
For cats that don't suck anus, yes. This perfectly describes the lovable house cat all should own.
If your cat is one of the bitch-cats ruining the name for felines, please call Zippocat
>> Anonymous
Whenever my cat is meowing a lot and bugging me Im wondering if hes hungry or if I have aids.
>> maggiekarp !zZAADmFDGM
My girl cat is usually a bitch and her breath smells like catfood, but she sits in my lap all the time and sniffs on me when I feel lousy.


Sometimes it's annoying though. She stuck her cold nose in my eyeball once :(
>> Anonymous
I have a cat and a dog.
I come home, my dog is happy and greets me right at the door.
I come home, my cat looks at me briefly from the window, and runs away after scratching my hand when I attempt to pet her.
GOD DAMN CATS.
>> Anonymous
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Wow, that's one of the bath pics of my cat. Have another one.
>> Anonymous
>>154734

That has to be the gayest shit ive ever read and i lurk /an/
>> Anonymous
>>155782
that's cause although you're a loser, your cat will still accept tribute from you.
>> Puddin
Yeah.. That was pretty cheesey. I don't know about other people, but generally I don't let my cats near my mouth. For some reason that just seems weird.

My male cat likes to grab ahold of my arm, bite it, then lick it all over. Mixed signals. But yes, my cats do make me feel better after a crappy day.
>> Anonymous
>>155782
Thats just you, loser who cannot properly raise a cat.
My cat waits, staring at me out the window when I get home- when I come in he's run onto the banister, and meows at me and rubs against me. I prefer this over dogs spazzing at OMG MASTER HOME OMG
>> Anymonous
Yeah, it sounds seriously gay.
But yeah, it's true, cats can feel if you're feeling crappy. Probably has to do with the fact that animals can smell about anything (like dogs can smell fear).

The looking-at-me-and-closing-it's-eyes thing went a step further here. I always winked at it, when it was looking at me and someday it understood and now always winks back.
He learned a lot without me actually having tried to teach him anything. I can point anywhere and say "come here" and he does it.
Smart guy. Norwegian Forest Cat btw., a very laid back race anyway.

It's never kissed me, only rubbing, sleeping on my stomach, lying in my lap, running around me when I walk through the house etc.
>> Alabama !OxEQ.F0AOw
The squint is part one of the cat greeting, according to an old TV show called Our Lives Through Animal Eyes. Staring, the way people are inclined to do, is considered rude among cats. I'm not sure I understand that, since plenty of friendly cats look right at you, but that's what the show said.
Putting his paw on top of your hand is part 2.
The rubbing is more a dominance, marking territory thing. Again, I'm not sure I agree with that, but that's what experts keep saying.
>> Anonymous
My cat likes to nuzzle me in the morning and lick at my neck to wake me up at exactly 7am. Even with daylight saving time.

I suspect this is actually vestigial behaviour from when she was trying to nurse from her mum, and handles my neck in the same way she used to handle her mum's belly.
>> Anonymous
>>155936
Their spot on timing can be scary. I've had several that mewed for their food at precisely the same times each day. And there was one neighbor's cat that would come play with me until 2 minutes before his owner was due in from work. Then he'd suddenly take off and run to his door and be waiting for his owner when she drove up.
>> Anonymous
Animals technically don't have emotions. They don't 'love'. This is what they call anthropomorphism, since animals (excluding humans) lack a frontal lobe, they lack the ability to feel what we call emotion, yet they feel familiarity, the necessity to cling to those that will provide for them, mark their territory with their cheeks. It's basic animal instinct.
>> Anonymous
>>156000
Rabbits, chimps, and others have been known to pine and starve to death when their best friends die. There are many accounts of dogs standing over graves of fellow pets for weeks after death. Every few months news agencies report an animal rescuing a family member from a fire or hitting the telephone emergency button during someone's seizure. Regardless of brain structure, the effect appears to be the same as emotion.
>> Anonymous
>>156000

I doubt removing a human being's frontal lobe will stop them from feeling emotion, or that the frontal lobe is the only part of the brain that allows animals to feel emotion. Didn't those surgery go horribly wrong anyway?
>> Anonymous
>>156000
ITT amateur neuropsychologist. And I'm not expert by any means, but I do know that neurotransmitters control your emotions. All of your neurotransmitters are not in your frontal lobe. And guess what? All animals (yes, humans are animals too) have neurotransmitters. That's how we know that animals can feel pain just like ours. Their brains produce endorphins too. Do some fucking research. I'm only in my fourth week of bio psych and i already know this shit.

Also I hate cats. I used to love them, but then i started hanging around friend's houses that owned them. They swarm over me (I DON'T KNOW WHY) and anywhere their claws or teeth touch swells up. Fucking cat allergies.
>> ^_^
awwww
>> Anonymous
>>156334

Back up there. Saying neurotransmitters control emotions and therefore various animals "feel" the same as humans do is incredibly vague and nonspecific. There are many, many, many different kinds of neurotransmitters that function in different ways.

You might as well say that since the Ford Pinto and a Ferrari Enzo both have "engines" that they are therefore the same thing. Or that since table salt and cyanide are both "made from atoms" that they must be the same thing too.
>> Anonymous
>>156351
Fine, seratonin, dopamine. I was being vague on purpose. As I mentioned, I don't know everything about them, but I do know enough to know that they influence our moods strongly enough to change them completely from one to another. for instance from happiness to depression.

If animals didn't feel pain, why would they have endorphins?
>> Anonymous
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>>156351
also stop using faulty logic. I said that animals such as cats and dogs are similar to humans because it is very likely that they have property y (feeling) due to chemical z (neurotransmitter serotonin, for instance) and therefore they are similar. That is not the same as claiming that two cars are exactly the same because they both have an engine.
>> Anonymous
>>156358

My objection was to your quote "animals can feel pain just like ours.": specifically the phrase "just like ours".

As you said, we do know that animals share some neurotransmitters with humans. But even in humans NOBODY knows exactly how those chemicals work and what EXACTLY it is that they do. If the brain was a book, we've only read the introduction and the table of contents. We are far from understanding the entire volume.

We can say with a high degree of certainty that there are many similarities between some aspects of animal brains and human brains. For example, both of them share some neurotransmitters. But that does NOT mean that the two are "just like" each other.

Do animals feel pain? Yes. We know that. Do they share the same moods as humans do? That is a tougher question. Animals certainly appear to share some of the same emotions that humans do. But we don't KNOW one way or another.
>> Anonymous
>>156364

You never used the word "similar" or "likely" until now. You said "JUST LIKE" in your earlier post.

I'm not saying that your conclusions are wrong per say. My point is that you are going overboard claiming that they are "just like" each other, especially when not even the experts know one way or the other, let alone a newb who has 4 weeks of college classes under his belt.
>> Anonymous
>>156367
But I was also careful not to say they felt emotions like we did. If they have the same neurotransmitter that's related to pain, I'd say it's a pretty safe bet to say they feel pain in pretty much the same way we do. And I'm talking physical pain here, not emotional or anything. I will admit that saying their pain is exactly like ours may have been going overboard a bit, but I really have very little reason to doubt that they would feel a stabbing sensation any differently than a bum on the street would. and the person I was quoting said flat out that animals don't have emotions. A bit of hyperbole to combat hyperbole I suppose, but as I mentioned, I never said they have the exact same emotions we do. Honestly I don't even think it was too terribly strongly implied.

Ad hominems do not a good argument make, btw. Especially when I explicitly supplied the very arguments you're using to call me a newb. I know i'm a newb to this area, that's why I said it.

Honestly I don't think we disagree though.
>> Anonymous
>>156367
Okay, I apologize for my hyperbole. Out of curiousity, are you a psych major?
>> Anonymous
Animals are a different species than us. Therefore, it would stand to reason that they perceive emotion and such differently than we do, though obviously there are similarities.

You can't really tell what exactly goes on in an animal's mind. Despite the numerous macros, no one here truly knows what it would be like to, say, be a cat.
>> Anonymous
>>156419

Your first statement doesn't make any sense. Yes, cats are a different species than us. But that doesn't say anything at all about how they (or we) "perceive emotion". The definition of a "species" is a group of organisms which can interbreed and produce viable offspring". That's it. No less, no more. Stating that cats and humans are different species is only saying that cats and humans can't interbeed. That's it. It says nothing about how similar or dissimilar our mental states are.