When people don't understand why I consider my cat like family

Apr 16, 2017 12:07 AM

andpeggy1776

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Cats ate her face.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

I had a very old cat named Babygirl who recently passed away. Worse thing is, I saw her dead body...

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

1910, back when cats were treated like humans but black people weren't.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I like dogs. But I pick a cat as a pet over dogs.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Those people you're talking about? You should see less of them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

This annoys me a bit. Personally I agree that he was only a cat. I just don't think there's anything bad about being only a cat.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Beautiful

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Three buried in one of our garden areas. I still miss them.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

599.74428 CAT, 297.23 RIP

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

I used to work at a pet cemetery, AND I own cats! I know how much people can care for their animals. It's truly heartbreaking to bury them.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This pic always tears me up. So much love and loss and grief in one photograph.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

My cat's tombstone - Winston- kind of a dick ... ok total dick. But he was freaking adorable.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Sometimes I get worried when I don't know where my cat is. I get sad that I always know where my other cat is...

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Thanks Dewey.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

He was also a rich cat.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Ah so cringe

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

So mean dude, pets are dear to people

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I know, but that post was so cringe that keyboardwarriors Will attack me in My sleep

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

D:

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Sincere love is beautiful.

9 years ago | Likes 31 Dislikes 0

I lost my first cat this month. He got hit by a car. I'm not sure how to feel. I miss him.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Allow yourself to be sad and weep if and when you feel the need.Cherish the happy moments.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

currently at the vet racking up a bill for my guy I love him like family I didnt even think twice

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

v

9 years ago | Likes 415 Dislikes 3

That is an onion, not a category of stick. Sorry, banned from flight now

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 4

v

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

DO YOU'RE THE ONE CUTTING ONIONS IN PLACES RANDOMELY, book'em boys

9 years ago | Likes 36 Dislikes 1

They can't. They're crying.

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Damn, bring in seal team 6, make sure they remember the gas masks

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

*sweats profusely* O.O

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You fucking faggot, stop that!

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

ah you beat me by...20 hours

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

they can be very human. v

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Thackery Binx!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Still alive~?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What is this from

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Hocus Pocus

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I got my two boys in the backyard with gravestones, RIP my little buddies

9 years ago | Likes 130 Dislikes 2

You shouldn't be allowed to own cats.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 20

I'm so so sorry. I understand.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

And my rabbit was tossed in a vans shoebox and buried with only a cinder block to mark her resting place. It's what she would have wanted.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I killed a possum once. It was trying to kill our chickens so I had to. I felt horrible about it and gave it a proper burial out back.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

We have boxes of my dogs ashes, engraved with a picture of them on each.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I thought you weren't talking about cats for a second...

9 years ago | Likes 48 Dislikes 0

who's to say he isn't?

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I feel ya, friend. Just buried my old 15 year boy today. RIP to our buddies.

9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

It'll get better. I still cry over one of my cats that I lost three years ago but I know he is in the yard at peace now.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

*hugs*

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

He filed his last decimal in his beloved system. He will be missed #library

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Reminds me of my hometown library cat named Dewey. They even wrote a book about him.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Just had our 19 year old cat put down today, parents took it harder than my siblings and I

9 years ago | Likes 63 Dislikes 0

My 19 yr old baby went to sleep last August. Our whole family was torn up something terrible too.

9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Don't worry. You may not take it hard tomorrow, next week, or even next month, but there will be a time where it hits you hard.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My old man is about 18 here and getting close to the end. Definitely gonna be hard

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

A week ago we had to put down the cat I grew up with. Still can't go into the room she used to sleep in. I still cry every night. It's hard.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Awww...I'm sorry. Speaking as a parent of a 19 y.o., they prob saw the cat as another "child" in a way.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Yeah she was the last of three we had, it was her sister that I took hard 3 or 4 years ago, she was my baby

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

*hugs* to you all

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah...my 15 year old was just diagnosed with lymphoma. That time will come far too soon.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I'm sorry to hear that :(

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I don't like upvoting this but... my buddy is 18. Seems good so far, if a little arthritic. When my day comes I'm going to cry like a baby.

9 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

Your buddy will let you know when time.. it's been a year I hope it's still around.

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

He died July 5 of 2017. He lost the battle with CKD and holding him while he was put down was the worst thing I’ve ever had to do,

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

But I owed it to him to be work him in the end.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I did indeed cry like a baby fwiw

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My cat doesn't care what I look like, how much money I have, how big/small my place is. She always come to cuddle me

9 years ago | Likes 195 Dislikes 1

I read "penis" instead of "place" and has to read it again to make sure i read it right. You never know. The internet is a weird place.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Correction, she lets you cuddle her.

9 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 2

cause you give her food, once you're out she'll leave lol

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 24

Yep, people are so goddamn delusional....

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 5

we upset the single cat lovers

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

forgot how close knit imgur users are with cats

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Hahaha how dare this man make the very common joke that cats don't care about humans!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

So would your child.

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

depends on the age

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Your point being that all life is pointless and that even humans with so called free will are still driven by primal instincts to survive..?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

No, my point is that if you are going to demean a cat because of its natural needs, you might as well do that to humans.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

With this thought experiment, I was hoping to expose how meaningless and ill-conceived the argument posed by the previous poster was.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No you're right it doesnt care about any of that... It just cares that you give it food

9 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 47

Both my cats are free fed and still need cuddling once I get home from work. They also don't let me sleep in past 7 on weekends.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

As a cat owner, I can decisively say that you are wrong.

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 5

Oh well if you own a cat you must have imperical evidence and not anecdotal nonsense colored by your own emotional projections. My mistake!

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 5

Three, actually. And I've been around cats my entire life. So I have sufficient experience around cats. Again, you're wrong.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

>myself that he actually gives a shit about me past knowing that i protect and feed him and that i am capable of extending his life.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

Again, anectodal nonsense that tells me nothing. I love cata as much as the next guy. Have one myself, but im not dumb enough to delude<

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

Are you legitimately telling me that if you never fed your cat again, that it would still show you the same percieved warmth it does now?

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 5

But in the case of if I never fed my cats again, they would be content is pure nonsense and unrelated to the original statement.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

You are introducing a different aspect to the argument. The original statement was that a cat ONLY cares if you feed it. Which isn't true.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

Give food=cat cares, dont give food=cat stops caring. I had a longer draft including shelter and general protection, but ran out of space <

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

> Besides any of that, the basic point is that the cat only gives a shit about you because you allow it to survive longer

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