Could have just pulled the light over so she could jump on it and swing across.
Until the cat decides you’re its new landing spot
Cats aren’t "it"s.
What a peculiar thing to get worked up about.
What an even more peculiar downvote amount. Even if you (the arbitrary you, not necessarily you in particular) don’t think they’re worthy of being considered beings, it’s not like I said anything offensive or off-topic.
I just don’t consider “it” to be depriving animals of “being” status.
You know what…
I went and looked this up because of this comment. I had never heard of “it” being used like that.
I’ve only ever heard it being used to specify something specifically as a non-person, or more generally a “being”. So I thought it was literally defining it as a non-being.
So TIL. I wasn’t trying to be prejudiced, I have literally never heard of “it” being anything other than specifically a non-living object.
So thanks for the chance to learn something interesting today.
What?
You need to re-read the my comment because I don’t think you understand it
I’m still not sure how else to read it.
From my understanding, the only “it” you could be referring to here is the cat. “its new landing spot” = “the cat’s new landing spot”. Ergo, calling the cat “it”.
My point was cats at least deserve the respect of “they” (in this example, “their new landing spot”) instead of calling them “it”.
I apologize if I’m reading it wrong, but that’s how it looks to me. Just trying to make sure to give kitties some respect.
At least my native language refers to animals as “it” so the mistake might come from there.
Maybe.
Either way, I am confused about how standing up for cats while literally commenting on /c/cats would be downvoted so hard.
I’m still wondering why everyone got so mad in 3 words, when I was betting nice to a cat!
I wasn’t even mean to the guy I was replying to.
Unless I’m missing some kind of context here (and that would be really oddly specific), this is beneath reddit intelligence.
Not that it deserved upvotes either, it was just a remark that I totally forgot about until I got the reply notification. Lemmy should be better than this.
Lemmy should be better than this.
because your hypercritical brainfart didn’t get you the updoots you wanted? it was a dumb comment that only stands up for yourself.
I’m terrified of installing anything that I cannot easily clean. These people are utterly fearless.
You’re absolutely right, as that cat will puke in the most inconvenient spot.
I’d be terrified that something would startle the cat and she’d fall.
Yeah, it needs a guard rail.
Does the cat know about 3-point contact?
Cat would walk on guard rail.
I don’t know about 3-point contact
It’s a safety-training thing.
Basically, when climbing a ladder make sure to always have three limbs on the ladder at all times.
Smart! Thanks
This has happened to our cat who managed to scramble up to a shelf in front of our big bay window in our living room. He was trying to swat at bugs that will occasionally bump into it from outside. Our shelf is twice as wide as this one, and he still lost his footing :/
Ours isn’t as high up as this one, thankfully, and we keep a cushioned rug and dog beds directly underneath it that he landed on, so he wasnt hurt. But yeah, this one would make me nervous.
'Course, they know their cat’s disposition best, maybe they’re super chill and never move very fast/suddenly. Would just hate for someone to try this and have their kitty get hurt
