Absolutely! As i say, it's pretty obviously a continuum. (Elephants? Elephants have a lot of self-awareness. They're still not HUMANS, and you can't treat their cognition like human cognition, but they're not large hairy vegetables either, you know?)
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Replying to @iridienne @ComicsExalted and
Animals pass the mirror test for sense of self, FYI.
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Replying to @CWGaither @ComicsExalted and
Some do, yeah. (Cats, it's really hard to tell, because cats mostly don't cooperate with animal psychologists
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Replying to @iridienne @CWGaither and
I've seen a cat literally attack its own reflection in a mirror, consistently, so yeah
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
Unneutered toms really do go around with roid rage when they're in that mood, though Like you wouldn't be asking why the Kzinti are cat-people if people still generally dealt with real toms as part of daily life
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
This same cat got so stir-crazy he made a game of chasing his own tail, *successfully caught it*, gave it a killing bite, and then howled in terrible pain
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
I think I've had cats like that. Our great big black tom is terribly farsighted and we've watched him chase a sock from across the room only to fluff and freak out up close when it turned from "Sock toy" into "Blur that might hurt me."
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I've made the comment about how cats would be Elves if animals were fantasy races before Including the Tolkien thing about Orcs being "corrupted Elves"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CWGaither and
Like, okay, pampered domesticated indoor cats are very High Elven The reclusive shy cats that were adopted as rescues are Grey Elves Cats living in an ideal, healthy feral/wild environment? Wood Elves
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CWGaither and
A colony of feral cats in an uncontrolled, ugly kind of environment you find in most urban centers? Horde of monstrous ravening vicious Orcs
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Jordan Peterson's cutesy advice to "Pet every cat you see" makes sense in your average suburban neighborhood Do not do this in the streets of Beijing
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I would not even advise this in Texas. We've had rescues with mange. They made very good pets once we got rid of the mange. Also my old cat would have eviscerated him, stuffed his body full of litter and worn his skull as a hat.
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