i wish my cat was this cool : funny

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I think you may be projecting human qualities onto your cat. Don't get me wrong, I think they are certainly intelligent animals, but the train of thought in the scenario you described is extremely complex, relatively speaking. It's easy to infer human emotion from our pet's actions, but the idea of a cat feeling embarrassed, registering that you have witnessed his mistake, realising that it does not want to appear clumsy and then trying to play it off as intentional in order to save face in front of you really seems beyond their mental ability. Cats and dogs live entirely in the present. That's the reason you have to reward a dog immediately when it does something good, because once it's in the past they move on immediately. If animals felt shame or embarrassment in the same way humans do, then they wouldn't do things like lick their balls while looking you in the eye, or shit in the street

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continue this thread

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I agree with you, but that doesn't mean they don't have emotions. They feel happiness and sadness, frustration and annoyance (or at least those are the human emotion equivalents).

And to say your cat didn't miss you is really quite unfair. Cats may not be pack animals like dogs, but they do enjoy social interaction and will absolutely feel lonely if you leave them alone for too long. It's one thing with an indoor-outdoor or outdoor cat, who has a much wider world to keep them entertained, but with an indoor-only cat whose interaction is limited to watching outside and spending time with their family, being left home alone all day isn't necessarily enjoyable to them.

Our current cat gets really annoyed if we don't spend enough time with her, and she shows it by not spending as much time hanging out with us while we do our things, whereas days where we're at home all day and spend time with her throughout the afternoon, she spends almost the entire evening just chilling out with us rather than off on her own for most of it.

There's a ton of variance in personality though, some cats don't really care if you're home or gone beyond the pleasure of extra attention, it seems.