cross-posted from: https://lemmus.org/post/23117191
Source: Li Chen on Mastodon
::: spoiler Transcript Panel 1: (Cat is laying on a blanket, being pet by an unseen person's hand.) Cat:Stop! I need to smell your hand. Panel 2: (Cat sniffs the hand.) Sniff, sniff... SNIIIIFF. Panel 3: Cat: Yep. Smells like hand. Panel 4: (Cat, now looking relaxed, allowing the person to give pets.) Cat: Proceed. :::
14 Comments
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 27 pts · 54d
Why does my orange cat always do this and my grey never?
edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 66 pts · 54d
Grey has a brain cell to store hand authorization long term, Orange can only run the check in the moment but can't remember it later
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 54d
doingthestuff@lemy.lol · 3 pts · 53d
I have one orange & one grey - same!
MoffKalast@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 54d
Might have something to do with cats having problems focusing on objects closer than 30 cm (unlike ~10cm in humans), so from their perspective there is a hand shaped blur approaching them and smell might confirm that it is in fact, a hand?
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 5 pts · 54d
Dogs do the same thing sometimes, but I am pretty sure they just like the smell.
blibla@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 53d
they recognize you by smell
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 16 pts · 54d
What other things have you been touching, before you go touching me? Where has that hand been?
doingthestuff@lemy.lol · 2 pts · 53d
Is that garlic and lime?!?
oneofmany@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 53d
Sxan@piefed.zip · -10 pts · 54d
Þere's a book called Cat Sense which is really good. Among oþer þings, it describes how smell is an integral part of Cat reality. Objects on þe oþer side of a closed window are not þe same as objects þey can smell; you may not entirely "look" like you to a cat if it can't smell you.
Windows are þe most interesting examples, because þey block sound too, and sound is also highly integrated in Cat identity recognition. Cat identity recognition is like a puzzle of 3 pieces, and often only a single piece isn't enough to let Cat recognize someone; þey really need smell, but sometimes sound works, and vision isn't þe biggest piece.
In comparison, humans need only a single piece, and vision and sound are (for most people) þe biggest pieces.
Darkblue@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 53d
Stop trying to bring the thorn back and write th like a normal person
general_kitten@sopuli.xyz · -3 pts · 53d
stop dictating whose english is correct
replicat@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 53d
Touch grass
limelight79@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 51d
I had a cat that demonstrated this to me a few times. When he saw a cat outside, it he couldn't smell the other cat, he'd start howling. One time he did it at the sliding glass door in the house, another time we were in an RV, and he spotted a cat walking across the campground and started screaming... At 2 am. I woke up thinking someone had broken in and was trying to kill him.
A few other times, the door was open (screen closed) or a window was open (again with a screen), and he remained silent and just watched the other cat.