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People always say they look cute and yea sure,

But did y'all forget the fact that they can literally get rid of all your mice problems?

I got a cat because for companionship and one month later, all those filthy mice are gone.

Being soft and warm to pet, and the beautiful meows, are just the cherry on top of their lovely companionship.

[-] nesc@lemmy.cafe 49 points 3 weeks ago

They rarely need to in the city, also those that weren't taught by other cats most of the time won't kill the mouse just torture it or scare.

Well, whatever my cat did, the mice are gone so... 🤷‍♂️

I did see a few dead mice around the first 2 months, now no sight of mice.

[-] nesc@lemmy.cafe 23 points 3 weeks ago

You are lucky, in my previous flat there were hoarders-alcoholics that lived on the next floor, one day they brought mice with whatever shit they decided to take. At first they were contained on their floor, but after a while they were everywhere. Cat played with them at first >_< and then got bored. After 10 or so that traps killed (in a month) I moved out.

[-] Zementid@feddit.nl 44 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Your experience reminded me of "Tom," the farm cat who lived in the corn silo on my great aunt's farm. He avoided/hated children but tolerated the adults who worked there. Depending on the season, he killed multiple mice a day, ate only their livers (leaving behind a trail of bodies), and used crippled mice to track down the hidden others. Tom was a true professional—and honestly, quite terrifying.

Edit: My aunt "paid" him with leftover spaghetti, ground meat, and eggs, as well as a warm spot by the oven in the winter (if he chose to stay there). He was "semi-feral"—never going near the house during the summer months.

Edit2 + Spelling,Typos,Grammar,

[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago

What the fuck kinda Hannibal Lecter cat...

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[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 3 weeks ago

They -can- do that yes. Whether or not they will choose to, however, is anyone’s guess.

[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 13 points 3 weeks ago

They will have a joyous time with it. And you might find eviscerated mice under your couch one day. But my two dumbass fur balls just thought they were awesome toys.

Never figured out quite when they stopped coming in. The only really humane way to kill em is snap traps. I probably went through a couple dozen of them before they stopped showing up.

I was against using poisoned food traps because the last thing I wanted was my cat consuming a poisoned mouse. But, since our whole neighborhood had a problem with the mice, I wouldn't be too surprised if a neighbor did it.

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[-] salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 133 points 3 weeks ago

Oh sure, when the cat walks into a house and wants to live there, they're all "omg it's so cute" and "let's go buy it food and a bed", but when I do it, they're all "who the hell are you?" and "leave or I'm calling the cops" :(

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 107 points 3 weeks ago

Have you tried meowing at them?

[-] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 61 points 3 weeks ago

don't do this. it only made things escalate in my experience

[-] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 25 points 3 weeks ago

Marking your territory probably didn't help you either

[-] BleakBluets@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago

Don't pick a house with a dog next time.

[-] AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 weeks ago

Have you tried UwU'ing at them?

[-] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 12 points 3 weeks ago

thats even worse why would you suggest that you trying to get me shot on sight?

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[-] elbucho@lemmy.world 104 points 3 weeks ago

Humans are just exceptionally weak to cute. If aliens ever show up and try to conquer us, we're going to be so screwed if they happen to be adorable.

[-] Arbiter@lemmy.world 48 points 3 weeks ago

Speak for yourself, I hope the furry aliens make me their pet.

[-] spechter@lemmy.ml 28 points 3 weeks ago

Well, I guess you're getting screwed anyways

[-] sleen@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe he likes getting screwed.

[-] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 16 points 3 weeks ago
[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 3 weeks ago

I would love the life of a house pet as long as I can play video games instead of sleeping all the time.

We just collectively need to convince our new overlords that it’s enrichment and just let me keep it I already have it, and I’ll be totally friendly and compliant whenever you want, I can pause, it’s cool.

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[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 23 points 3 weeks ago

Even if they were horrors beyond our comprehension, a whole lot of people would be still be very sexually aggressive towards them.

[-] gnutrino@programming.dev 21 points 3 weeks ago

Honestly that may be what saves us. They try to manipulate us by being cute, we weird them out by being horny.

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[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago

There's a Philip K Dick short story about this, "The war with the Fnools"

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 weeks ago

If aliens turn up and they're like "Give me snacks. And a fluffy bed." I think we'd be like "...aight."

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 11 points 3 weeks ago

Aww nibbler

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[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 65 points 3 weeks ago

I never liked cats at all and one did exactly that. Stupid fuck make me fall absolutely in love with it too.

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Get another one from the shelter! They have much richer lives if they have another cat to interact with, even if they don't like each other.

Plus having two cats is getting yourself twice the cute and love for very little extra work.

Edit - doesn't this look great?

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[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 54 points 3 weeks ago

The fact that only two creature in this world that will approach another creature 10 times bigger than them just so they get adopted is pretty impressive. That's how i adopted my 4th cat, little baby dude just came out from under a car and yell at me until i pick him up.

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[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 53 points 3 weeks ago

As of about three weeks ago a stray cat figured out how to use our doggie door.

Now we have a 2nd cat.

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[-] Aeri@lemmy.world 44 points 3 weeks ago

That makes it sound like the cat domesticated humanity not "The cat self domesticated itself"

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 3 weeks ago

in reality it sure as fuck seems like humanity domesticated humanity, we have a lot of domesticated features like neotony (we look strikingly like chimpanzee children) and we're arguably the most ludicrously social species on earth.

the ironic thing is that cats aren't really very domesticated, they're inherently a social animal and happen to just sorta fit with how humans work.

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[-] nesc@lemmy.cafe 34 points 3 weeks ago

They are funny, don't really need a lot of space and training, and look pretty. Ofc I will go and by whatever.

[-] K9life@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks ago

Lost opportunity to say "I live here meow"

[-] brlemworld@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago

I keep meowing at hot guys at the bar and none have taken me home yet 😭

[-] Siegfried@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

Meow at the moderately acceptably good (minus minus) looking and you may have some luck... but please don't get offended if we start pspspspsing you, it's just a reflex

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[-] yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 26 points 3 weeks ago

Did cats domesticate humans, or did Toxoplasma gondii domesticate both of us?

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[-] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 23 points 3 weeks ago

They don't even meow to each other, just to humans. They know what they are about.

[-] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

No, they do sometimes. Some meow in greeting to each other, as seen on cat cams.

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[-] buttfarts@lemy.lol 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

When I was a kid Mr Kitty unilaterally moved in despite belonging to the neighbors across the street and the stern objections of my father armed with a squirt gun.

[-] FoxyFerengi@lemm.ee 21 points 3 weeks ago

I did my best to take a cat home today when I was at the local landfill. I don't even have space for another cat, it's just freezing here and he looked extra pathetic. He decided the dumpster was safer and u honestly can't blame him xD

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

There's been a little baby girl coming around here, underweight, some kind of skin problem. She has always been an outside cat and belonged to my neighbor who died. My wife says we already have four so we can't bring a street cat in that's going to fight them.

She's right, but sometimes little girl comes up when I'm smoking and gets warm laying in my lap and I want to keep her so much.

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
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[-] dumbass@leminal.space 19 points 3 weeks ago

I went to disagree untill I remembered there's a ginger cat that lives on my property that I feed sometimes

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[-] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago

I love all cats, and they are free to walk inside anytime they want. Just no fighting in the house.

[-] Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago

The cat that walked into my house and said "I live here meow."

[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

"Everybody wants to talk about X, nobody wants to talk about Y".
That's not gaslighting, that's whataboutism.

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[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 weeks ago

Cats never domesticated themself, since ever they are specialists in domesticate humans, for commodity, not for need.

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