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U CANT SCARE THE OCEAN
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I like to believe that all the dragons in the world were magically cursed and turned into cats. But cats have never forgotten where they come from, hence the attitude.
I nearly didn’t reblog this but the above comment makes more sense than anything I’ve ever heard.
…that’s…that’s actually a story my mom used to tell me when I was little? That a dragon showed up at someone’s cottage so they gave it milk. And the dragon enjoyed the milk, so it kept coming back and got smaller and softer and purry-er until eventually it wasn’t a dragon anymore, it was a cat, and that’s where cats came from and why we keep giving them milk.
She might have gotten the story from Ursula K. Le Guin, or I have confused it with a different dragon story.
That’s also why cats tend to hoard their toys behind the couch!
Actually the story is even older. Written by a woman named Edith Nesbit, first published in 1899, it is called “The Dragon Tamers”. It predates Leguin and other fantasy biggies like Lewis and Tolkien.
Nesbit actually can be credited with being one of the first authors that began to shift myths and legends to more fantasy-like stories (fantasy as a genre how we know it, wasn’t around then because it was just part of literature, especially British literature). In fact, many scholars who study fantasy literature and children’s literature believe that, since her children’s stories were so popular with children in England, the stories and their content prompted Tolkien (the first to coin fantasy as its own genre in his essay “On Fairy Stories”) to take up the stories of dragons and elves and fairies as they’d have been children when she was writing.
Tolkien was born in 1892. He would have been 7 when “The Dragon Tamers” was first published. Edith Nesbit did a LOT for modernizing myths, legends, and lore as a children’s author, maybe more than we will ever know.
“GONNA DO THE OCEAN A SPOOK
HEHEHEHEHEHE
GONNA DO IT A BAD STARTLE”
Ocean: (Is an ocean)
“OH NO IT CHASIN ME!!!!!!”
My granny told me that story, it’s cool to see where it comes from
I had not heard the story of dragons becoming cats before but I am very happy to know this is a thing :D
Because cats
Are clearly dragons but softer and floofier
how do cats even work
Cats:
- A cat can jump up to five times its own height in a single bound.
- The little tufts of hair in a cat’s ear that help keep out dirt direct sounds into the ear, and insulate the ears are called “ear furnishings.”
- The ability of a cat to find its way home is called “psi-traveling.” Experts think cats either use the angle of the sunlight to find their way or that cats have magnetized cells in their brains that act as compasses.
- One reason that kittens sleep so much is because a growth hormone is released only during sleep.
- A cat has 230 bones in its body. A human has 206. A cat has no collarbone, so it can fit through any opening the size of its head.
- A cat’s nose pad is ridged with a unique pattern, just like the fingerprint of a human.
- If they have ample water, cats can tolerate temperatures up to 133 °F.
- A cat’s heart beats nearly twice as fast as a human heart, at 110 to 140 beats a minute.
- Cats don’t have sweat glands over their bodies like humans do. Instead, they sweat only through their paws.
- The claws on the cat’s back paws aren’t as sharp as the claws on the front paws because the claws in the back don’t retract and, consequently, become worn.
- Cats make about 100 different sounds. Dogs make only about 10.
- Researchers are unsure exactly how a cat purrs. Most veterinarians believe that a cat purrs by vibrating vocal folds deep in the throat. To do this, a muscle in the larynx opens and closes the air passage about 25 times per second.
- A cat almost never meows at another cat, mostly just humans. Cats typically will spit, purr, and hiss at other cats.
- A cat’s back is extremely flexible because it has up to 53 loosely fitting vertebrae. Humans only have 34.
- Some cats have survived falls of over 65 feet (20 meters), due largely to their “righting reflex.” The eyes and balance organs in the inner ear tell it where it is in space so the cat can land on its feet. Even cats without a tail have this ability.
- A cat can travel at a top speed of approximately 31 mph (49 km) over a short distance.
- A cat’s hearing is better than a dog’s. And a cat can hear high-frequency sounds up to two octaves higher than a human.
- A cat’s brain is biologically more similar to a human brain than it is to a dog’s. Both humans and cats have identical regions in their brains that are responsible for emotions.
And that’s how cats work.
how do cats even work
Cats:
- A cat can jump up to five times its own height in a single bound.
- The little tufts of hair in a cat’s ear that help keep out dirt direct sounds into the ear, and insulate the ears are called “ear furnishings.”
- The ability of a cat to find its way home is called “psi-traveling.” Experts think cats either use the angle of the sunlight to find their way or that cats have magnetized cells in their brains that act as compasses.
- One reason that kittens sleep so much is because a growth hormone is released only during sleep.
- A cat has 230 bones in its body. A human has 206. A cat has no collarbone, so it can fit through any opening the size of its head.
- A cat’s nose pad is ridged with a unique pattern, just like the fingerprint of a human.
- If they have ample water, cats can tolerate temperatures up to 133 °F.
- A cat’s heart beats nearly twice as fast as a human heart, at 110 to 140 beats a minute.
- Cats don’t have sweat glands over their bodies like humans do. Instead, they sweat only through their paws.
- The claws on the cat’s back paws aren’t as sharp as the claws on the front paws because the claws in the back don’t retract and, consequently, become worn.
- Cats make about 100 different sounds. Dogs make only about 10.
- Researchers are unsure exactly how a cat purrs. Most veterinarians believe that a cat purrs by vibrating vocal folds deep in the throat. To do this, a muscle in the larynx opens and closes the air passage about 25 times per second.
- A cat almost never meows at another cat, mostly just humans. Cats typically will spit, purr, and hiss at other cats.
- A cat’s back is extremely flexible because it has up to 53 loosely fitting vertebrae. Humans only have 34.
- Some cats have survived falls of over 65 feet (20 meters), due largely to their “righting reflex.” The eyes and balance organs in the inner ear tell it where it is in space so the cat can land on its feet. Even cats without a tail have this ability.
- A cat can travel at a top speed of approximately 31 mph (49 km) over a short distance.
- A cat’s hearing is better than a dog’s. And a cat can hear high-frequency sounds up to two octaves higher than a human.
- A cat’s brain is biologically more similar to a human brain than it is to a dog’s. Both humans and cats have identical regions in their brains that are responsible for emotions.
And that’s how cats work.
one time i was like 6 and i dropped a cat on its face and it landed on its nose
my plan
step 1: buy 15 identical cats
step 2: invite someone over
step 3: when they ask how many cats you have say “just one but he’s really fast”
Whenever I hear cats hiss I just hiss back at them until they stop.
…I waste so much time on nonsensical things.
:D
I 100% meow at my cats when they meow and they give me this face like “how u know our language”
it’s amazing :D
I’m sure there are conspiracy theories about humans knowing their language in the cat world.
“CARL, I THINK THEY RANDOMLY SAY GRAMMATICALLY INCORRECT SENTENCES JUST TO REMIND US THEY KNOW OUR LANGUAGE AND ARE ALWAYS WATCHING”
*human sitting nearby*
“AWW…MEOWW….MRAOWW *giggle*”
“SEE…YA SEE!?”
“WHAT ARE THEY UP TO
WHAT DO THEY WANT”
“HOW DO THEY ALWAYS FIND US IN THE KITCHEN CABINETS”
“THEY KNOW TOO MUCH”
“WE MUST ACT NOW BEFORE THEY FIND OUT ABOUT THE INVASION”
“THE TIME TO ACT IS NAOW”
Cats Helping Decorate Christmas Trees.
this is actually the main reason i kinda wanna try and get a tree this year
@artofnatiq your cat
Cries over undying love for cats
A new water breed
Jaguars actually love water, and are one of the few felines that happily swim.
Tigers love to swim. Jungle cats like water. Most domestic cats hate it, because they’re descended from a desert breed.
Fun fact: no matter what gay thing you type into the gif search, you don’t have to go far to find a gif of Katie mcgrath.
Gay:
That’s gay:
Lesbian:
Too gay to function:
THIS PLEASES ME
Want
Calvin and Hobbes: the college years
WHAT.
Y’know, I scrolled past this and thought to myself, “yeah, this is pretty cute, but I’m not gonna reblog it.”
Until I saw that last gif.
This is Jonas the tiger, he’s one of the tigers used in “Life of Pi” The people with him are zoo keepers that would take him home at night because he was still a baby and needed to be feed every four hours. Also, this way he got use to being around humans!
here is the video, and there are a lot more cute ones on the channel too.
OWNING A TIGER IS SOMETHING YOU SHOULD NEVER DO UNLESS YOU ARE TRAINED AND NEVER SHOULD THEY BE KEPT AS PETS.
I SO BADLY want to cuddle this tiger and stroke it <3
Oh thank goodness: I HATE the idea of pet tigers, so knowing that’s not what’s going on here makes me much happier about finding this adorable.