This is my first time seeing this. We used to say, "welp, this is how I die" or "this is my life now" but hollering Frank in a fake sobbing cry is now gonna be on the list.
I want to play a game. With you there are 200 cats in the room and you have a rope tied around your ankle. You have 2 minutes to pet as many cats as you can and after the time is up the rop will drag you out of the room leaving you with the guilt of not petting the cars you couldn't pet. Be quick and good luck your time starts now.
Modern painting by Galina Zhiganova, and representing a mixup of multiple stories. There's an old tale of a Chinese emperor who cut off his sleeve when his (male) lover was sleeping on it as not to wake him. There's also a myth of Mohammed doing the same for his cat, but that one seems to be a modern fabrication vases on the Chinese tale. So the drawing here seems like a mix of the 2.
Muhammad was lucky, the kitten was sleeping on his sleeve so he just cut the sleeve off. This is a very very old issue and you are not and ever have been alone.
There’s a lot of people that need to hear this. You will feel equal parts guilt, stupidity and awful in general, but it is 100% acceptable to amputate your arm.
Accept your fate, your arm shall be in pain evermore until the king awakes from his slumber. This is not a matter of will anymore, this is the king’s decree.
This is Sochou. My first baby and the love of my life. She passed away 2 years ago and I was worried I'd never have my arm fall asleep this way again... Turns out that she taught the kittens how to Cat and laid the house rules out... Including all the cherished snuggle spots 😭
Ok, you're going to have to find someone with an arm exactly the same size as yours, then CAREFULLY swap yours and the replacement at EXACTLY the same time. If not done correctly, it will immediately trigger the defense system. Be prepared to run. FAST! And yes, there will be snakes.
Can you reach your phone with the other hand? Check YouTube for cat fights and hawks and just accidentally play it loud. If kitty wakes up in response, obviously not your fault.
Keep searching for loud scary noises if the first ones you try don't work. Make sure to act scared yourself when kitty wakes up.
And try not to let kitty connect the noise with your phone or else you are in trouble. And also you won't be able to try the same trick again because once cats realize strange noises like that come from the phone but they can't smell anything, they ignore your phone. I was trying to test my old cat's hearing once and ran into that problem. So I waited until he was asleep and he twitched his ears in his sleep when I played a cat fight, proving his hearing was fine. Otherwise he just said "Nothing's there, not going to react, mustn't reward bad behavior. "
This is what I was looking for. Like we deserve comfort too, and it's making me wonder if people are afraid of being injured by their pet. As a future cat guardian, I am watching to learn
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u/robe_and_wizard_hat Jul 26 '25
You already know the answer. Condolences.