• Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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    3 hours ago

    White cat (codename Fluffy_Lamp) is the bait while the black cats (codenames Velvet_Ninja_Assassin & Fuzzy_Moth_Liquidator) are the unseen executioners.

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    Moths are such an interesting analogy for modern life:
    In order to thrive during nighttime and avoid daylight predators, they have evolved a complex guidance sense based on stars and moonlight. Then we invent artificial lights and fuck up 190 millions of years of evolution. “Haha dumb bug is hitting the light.”

    How often do I feel like a moth.

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      I feel like the most obvious example of this is the array of things we need to apply self-discipline to, to succeed. Things like: eating healthy, limiting screen time, avoiding (over-indulgence in) intoxicants, keeping up with chores and assignments at work or school, not getting bogged down by the state of the world, being patient with others, and so on… Then people who smoke a pack a day judge others for being obese, or vice versa (pun intended) and it’s a whole mess.

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      Then a sudden crash and scurrying. Only to find everything on the counter knocked over and on the floor.

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        Mine jumps at the keys in the door when he gets the zoomies. Apparently he reaches the higher lock, that’s where I have a small mascot dangling and I found it on the floor a couple of times already.

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        With only the moth left in the vicinity of the crime you should assume it acted alone in this horrendous act of vandalism.

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      Huh, I’ve never met a cat that ekekekees at bugs, they only do it when watching birds they clearly have no way of catching. Otherwise they just meow at the thing like it’s your fault it’s flying on the ceiling.

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        They ekekekek if they want to hunt or to grab your attention / attention of other cats for the hunt. I run around with a bug zapper paddle and hunt with my cat. I see a moth, I ekekek at him and he comes in running, grabs the thing and eats it. Sometimes he ekekeks at me and I grab the paddle and launch a serve at a fly. Gets him off my back for playtime, since playtime is basically simulating a hunt, and he goes to eat and sleep shortly after.

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    Bugs don’t stand a chance in my house. I’ve literally just started wishing them luck and finding their corpse in the morning, she’s undefeated.

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      That’s impressive. I try to get my cat to hunt flies but she just gives me the dumbest look.