• theangryseal@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    I had a friend when I was younger who had this giant orange cat. I’ve never seen one that big anywhere else in my life.

    It would sit at your feet and when you opened a bottle you had to toss the lid to the cat. There were hundreds of lids behind her couch.

    That cat fucking loved lids.

    I just seen my old friend today actually. First time in years, so it’s funny to see this post.

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    22 days ago

    It’s extremely interesting to me that cats, despite having no way of knowing sadness in another being (they anatomically can not have empathy), they know that this isn’t how it’s supposed to be. They do know happiness in others, so in order to make the “not good thing” go away, they do things you usually like (cuddles) and things that they like (bottle caps). They show empathy through intelligence.

    Edit: source

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7401521/