Reposting a question I saw on reddit like a decade ago. My favorite answer I read was, “I’d take my 100 dogs home and live like a king.”

Personally, I have two cats, Sansa and Shere Khan. For both, I could significantly narrow down the options by seeing which cats meowed at me the most. (I swear I didn’t teach them to yell, but here we are.) For both, I could bring in a dog to discern which cats weren’t scared of dogs. For Sansa, I could wait until dinnertime and put down some wet food, then see who hems and haws about eating it despite having screamed for it. That might not be enough to get it down to just one each, but oh well. I could use 5 or 10 more cats.

  • unsettlinglymoist@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Well, I have a very specific play routine I do with my cat almost every day that no imposter could emulate. I’ll point at her and exclaim, “YOU!!! I know what you’ve done!” and she’ll take off running for her life and I’ll chase after her. When I finally catch her, I ball my hand into a fist and shove it in her belly and she gives me rabbit kicks and sassy chomps.

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    20 hours ago

    my cat has a dedicated overstimulated corner on my desk where she goes if I’m annoying her too much but still wants attention, and I imagine that’s not pretty common. She also stares at the wall.

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    22 hours ago

    I haven’t got any pets now, but for the last pet I had, it would’ve been easy. I mentioned in another comment on here recently that she used to attack/eat dandelions.

    I could’ve held up a fluffy, white dandelion and waited to see which pup came over to chomp it.

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    1 day ago

    I would bring my bed into the room and turn on the floor fan.

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    21 hours ago

    Depends which one, escorting me around, flopping over and not leaving til I’ve scratched the shit out of him, or mithering for food would be solid indicators though.

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    My cockatiel is the only one in this hypothetical flock that would scream my name, when any nearby human gets into an argument.

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    I honestly can’t think of anything better than being in a room with 100 Boxer dogs.

    At the end, the sofa and blanket would have to be huge to fit us all on it, though.

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    My dog is missing an ear, so that would make her stand out pretty easily. If the rest of the dogs were also missing an ear, I’d look for the one that was trying to play with the rest of them. Calling her name wouldn’t do any good anyways, since she would be way too distracted by the 99 other dogs.

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    Oh, it’s easy. Mine is the one cat who is picking constant fights with all the other cats. For the amount of love and affection this guy has for human, he has the identical in size hatered for other cats, especially if they look like him

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    2 days ago

    Well, first I’d be asking what you did to the eye on 99 other pets. After that, I’d find a stairway and take home the first one that tried to trip me going up the stairs

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    I feign striking my wife in anger.

    We shared a house with my wife’s brother. He was an alcoholic, and got uppity one night. I was at work, so not home.

    Our dog made sure he regretted being an aggressive ass towards his sister.

    Then I nearly got assault charges for making sure he remembered why he was bruised and scratched up the next morning after I got home from night shift. The canine puncture was his own fucking problem. Note: I didn’t lay a hand on him, was just accused.

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      Dad’s Doberman would only attack if he thought my stepmom was threatened. They’d play fight to encourage him.