There’s a cat in that image

Has Miez always liked belly scritches? Most sources say cats don’t like being pet on their belly, but Miez seems to love it

Adorable. I like sound of kitties snoring

<3

Arthur is soo cute!

Pickle toy. Pillow by the window. Kaia’s living well

So cute <3

I love the slightly guilty look on Thorin’s face

wasn’t about to try and catch it.

Lol, yeah that’s understandable. Best case scenario: feral cat. Worst case scenario: sprayed by skunk!

I warmed up to Franka in this instalment. Miez is looking well :)

I lean towards skunk. The first thing I noticed in the pic is that I thought the legs and hips were pretty small for a cat compared to the size of the tail (which would indicate a full grown cat, if it were a cat). I did an image search of skunks and learned that their black/white pattern isn’t uniform but varies a lot. The all black tail here is plausibly a skunk’s tail, I think

It’s neat hearing how Rowena communicates with her gaze/stare. I didn’t know cats could do that. It makes me want to experiment with putting cat treats on a shelf in plain sight of a cat and seeing if with a little training they would use gazing to communicate desire for treats. My last cat knew where the door was (to go outside on a leash) and that the cat treats were in the coffee table. They would hang around, paw at, and gaze/meow at me while adjacent to one of those objects to communicate their desire, either to go out or for treats. Whereas it’s obvious that cats have memory for location (e.g., food, litter), communicating with gaze really intrigues me

What a sweetie! New chill spot found!

I wonder how much the cats reported on in this thread are interested in smelling human worn objects for the out-of-house smells the objects might pick up versus the smell of their human companions on those objects. We don’t do this much as humans compared to other animals but smelling can be used to identify an individual, and smelling the smell of an known individual who’s a positive relation can be pleasing

She’s definitely one of Lemmy’s most clever cats :). Awesome photo!! Her eyes match the green in the carpet, and I love that she’s found the beam of sunlight

I’d say in about 2 years, the entire place is going to be bots with AI generated content that try to mimic “real users” using their new Dynamic Product Ads tool

Yeah, it’s just partially like that now lol. A few weeks ago there was a side-by-side reddit screenshot post on Lemmy. It showed the exact same reddit post, with the exact same tens of comments (all word for word, some in response to each other iirc), from different accounts less than a year apart. 100% fabrication. I’d never seen such extensive bot-masquerading as people behaviour; it was a realization moment for me

The photos of the 3 of them are neat :D
Photo #2, Miez: “WTF, you’re not scritching Luci, are you?!”
Photo #3, Timmy: “Are we doing photos? I was zzzZZzzz”

Alright, new characters in the Miez Universe! Timmy sounds like a good guy. Epic stretch by Miez by the door, doing a 180

Their eyes look backlit, and remind me of a harvest moon in the night sky. A lovely floof

Great advice, thank you!! What you said applies to me quite a bit