He’s just a lil guy
Because kitties are forever babies 🤗
because they stay smol!
When you’re 50 years old and start dating someone do you call them your wo/manfriend?
She’s not my special lady, she’s my fucking lady friend.
I can hold onto many feelings and ideas at once.
My orange baby boy is an old man.
Mama Trump, is it you?
Same reason I refer to my 14-year-old dachshund as a puppy.
Because he’s my puppy.
The only true man cat is Idris Elba in Cats
“And that’s where you’re wrong, buddy. Damn I look good.”
Fishy fishy
I’m gonna eat you little fishy!
my cat always acts like she’s a year old and is pretty small for a cat (we assume she’s the runt)
when we got her the pound said 2 years old (info from previous owner) but when we took her to the vet we got told that she’s actually about 5She’s about 7-8 now and still looks just as adorable as when I got her!!
edit: this image also shows her bent whisker that got messed up when she tried to stick her head in the food container as I was shutting it a couple weeks ago lol
My friend had a a cat that as a human would have been a balding, neurotic man with a mustache and glasses. A very high strung cat tbh. His name was Mr. Pappy.
Probably the same reason my six year old dog is still my puppy. She is just a baby after all.
Human/animal bonding is aided because their faces retain neotenic features that remind us of babies. So many are inclined to relate to them like children.
From that article:
Accumulating behavioral and neurophysiological studies support the idea of infantile (cute) faces as highly biologically relevant stimuli rapidly and unconsciously capturing attention and eliciting positive/affectionate behaviors, including willingness to care. It has been hypothesized that the presence of infantile physical and behavioral features in companion (or pet) animals (i.e., dogs and cats) might form the basis of our attraction to these species.
It has been hypothesized that both behavioral and physical infantile features present in companion animals might form the basis of our attraction to these animals and may bear some part of the responsibility for our motivational drive to pet-keeping and pet-caretaking (Archer, 1997).
That’s weird because babies are ugly. Cats, on the other hand, are just so… hey wait a minute, my cat stole my heart 💘😼
This spell, so potent… 😍🐈
I think this might be a case of cart-before-horse. It seems obvious to me that domesticated animals have these traits because they were selected for by our ancestors, not the other way around.
That’s true for dogs, less so for cats. It’s also immaterial since we’re talking about present attitudes toward pets.
I feel like the factors that shape our drive towards cuteness and what we find cute are not immaterial to our present attitudes towards pets… but no doubt you’re right to point out that there can be more than one factor at play.
My cats are gentlemen and ladies
I only have one lady. The rest I call terrible names.
Oh I call them like 100 terrible names as well but they are still nobles without rank or title
I have a little man cat, he’s my little guy.
I have a dead cat. 🤷♂️
How long have you had it?
I inherited it from my grandfather 12 years ago.
Define “grow up”. Their personality changes with age but they remain fixated on their care giver(s) similar to children for as long as you let them.
