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I grew up around stray/homeless cats and developed a life-long appreciation and affection for cats in general. It’s so sad when they have no warm home, and especially so when it’s due to abandonment. They can have a beneficial influence that most people cannot fathom; and their positive effect on their human hosts can also be beneficial to the pets themselves. There are reciprocally healthy — some cat lovers would even go as far as to describe them as largely symbiotic — relationships available between felines (many of us see them as family members) and their loving and appreciative human hosts, including those suffering physical and/or mental illness. Also, I’ve found over decades that with our four-legged friends there’s a beautiful absence of some undesirable and distinctly human traits. Along with human intelligence comes the proportionate reprehensible potential for evil behavior, i.e. malice for malice’s sake.

Someone please explain to me why my sending my kid a Pic of our cat hugging my slipper with the caption " mommy, I love the smell of your feet" would be considered offensive to my kid. I thought it was a cute Pic of our cat snuggling my slipper, but my kid is all "that's not cool, mom. Def weird." and they say it's my caption that makes it weird. Wtf?

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This is just a musing of mine. I absolutely love cats, but I think they go a little insane being raised indoors with humans all the time. My Dad tamed a cat that was feral and lived out in his alley for at least seven years. She became his indoor house cat. I inherited her when he died. She was absolutely the sanest, smartest, most well-behaved cat I've ever had. I loved her so much. We had another cat that had been an outdoor farm cat for a year until my husband bought him (before we got married). He didn't let the cat out and that cat was f*****g miserable every moment he was awake. After I split up with my ex, I started to let the cat out. I WAS worried, but all of a sudden, he was so calm. His fur got shiny and smooth. He became more affectionate and better behaved.