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dyauspitr • yesterday at 2:54 PM • 5 replies • view on HN

I never understood the extreme love for cats. I considered getting one for my daughter but the toxoplasmosis alone makes cat ownership an immediate nope and that’s before the cat piss/poop you can immediately smell in a house with cats in them.


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Xirdus • yesterday at 3:24 PM

Cats spent the last 4000 years or so evolving to be more adorable to humans. The reasons we love cats are rooted in our basic cognitive functions, which cats are abusing. I am not taking a piss when I say that people who don't like cats are more likely to be neurodivergent.

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floorsthelimit • yesterday at 3:25 PM

I prefer animals that shit in a box to animals that eat their own shit and barf it up and eat it again.

Plus it’s probably the toxoplasmosis that brainwashes us to love those furry little things.

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bowsamic • yesterday at 4:45 PM

The main thing I don’t like about cats is that they feel like they don’t really like their owners but more just tolerate them

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bookofjoe • yesterday at 4:55 PM

Not in mine!

michaelmrose • yesterday at 3:20 PM

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