Sunday, November 15, 2020

Tumblr Thread: Human Befriends Cat That Doesn't Meow


Oh man, this is one of those true gems from the brilliant minds of the Tumblr world. We've got a story about the time that a dude ended up taking a feral cat in, and the beautiful friendship that blossomed from there. 

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Text - sailorcuba Follow the purest form of serotonin is when a cat looks at u and u go like “what?" and it meows at u moderngargoyle Follow like, that is a very unspecific response I still have no idea what you want but l applaud how adorably you meowed all the same, well done moderngargoyle Follow This post led me to reminisce on the nature of cat's meowing, and I have a funny story I befriended a feral cat once who had spent her life in the forest without human

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Text - interaction. was worried about her because she had a paw damaged from an old injury and was emaciated but obviously nursing kittens that were hidden away somewhere. It took me weeks of putting out food and sitting across the yard every evening for her to trust me even a little and when she decided we were friends and she expected dinner every night she started coming to my door and trying to call for me in the evening, but she didn't meow. Why would she? Cats only meow naturally as kitten

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Text - when we first encountered each other in the forest. Except once we were friends she would make this noise while purring and rubbing affectionately against a nearby tree or the porch railing (because she didn't want to touch me yet). This understandably freaked my family members out but I was touched that she had taken the time to find a way to basically yell FUCK OFF in an affectionate way. Fast forward to when she finally trusts me enough to bring her hidden kittens out of the forest to

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Text - they make SO many babies) and ended up having her new babies in this pen. I kept my distance, sitting on the outside once they were born until she seemed comfortable enough to let me come inside. The kittens were a bit wild, hissing viscously at me as soon as they opened their eyes, but they warmed up to me. There were four of them and soon they all wanted to be the center of attention during the twice daily play sessions. l'd be playing with one and another would meow insistently behind

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Text - thinking because one day when they were about a month old I was playing with them and one meowed behind me. I was confused | because I hadn’t realized there was a kitten behind me and when I turned, there wasn't. The only cat there was Artie looking at me really intensely. I turned back around to the kittens and I heard the meow again, I turned back to Artie and responded in the way | always did with the kittens “yes baby?" And she meowed again in an exact imitation of her kittens! After

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Text - | find it endlessly fascinating because before that it had never occurred to me that cats only meow at humans because they were taught by other cats to keep meowing past kittenhood because that's the best way to get a human's attention. Imagine befriending some weird giant with the wrong number of legs that you met in the forest who seems nice enough but doesn't seem to be able to hear you, until your friend explains that all they can understand is fuck off! And l'm a baby give me love! #

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