#actually i love both dogs and cats

[chet-ho7mgren]

His dog is so cute 💓

I wonder what his dog’s name is

I like to think his dog and my dog would get along, my dog loves other dogs, and they look about the same size

[tsuchinokoroyale]

My sister asked me to clear an overgrown area of her backyard for her to do some gardening so I put on my butch jockstrap and went to town on some holes

[perilegs]

every time there's a (chain) restaurant that stops using finnish meat i die inside a bit. like. first of all your image will suffer. it's more ecological to get things made near you. you should realize that even if you don't care about anything. and yeah i barely eat meat but i do care about animal wellbeing so i'm capable of understanding that since people at large will keep eating meat, it's good to support the industry in a country where it's actually mandatory to treat your animals somewhat well and raise them in clean environments and where antibiotics are only used if an animal is sick. and not as a preventive measure so you can raise them in dirty environments. does antimicrobial resistance say nothing to you. also this is exactly why, if i had a pet, i'd be unwilling to buy them food that has meat from a country where i don't know about how the butchery works. bc it supports everyone from the animals to the consumers and their pets and whatever to have meat that's raised with prevention of diseases with the help of systematic health care work and hygiene and literally just not dumping antibiotics into poor animals in poor conditions. thats how you get e coli. my god. all that so you can get slightly cheaper ingredients. insane.

[chuu-huahua]

i saw @chuuyrr’s post about skk cats and please i really really needed to write something about this (i just finished my physics practical and am crying over it)

ok but imagine actual skk meeting cats!skk. dazai was originally a cat person, so he just crouches on the ground in front of them with a big smile on his face, but doesn’t initiate any contact. he’s afraid of hurting them like he hurt everything and everyone else, and he can’t find it in himself to reach out and pet them first. cat!chuuya can sense this, so despite his reluctant gaze, he pulls himself over to settle near dazai’s feet, stretching out on the ground and pawing at dazai’s shoes. dazai drags his long fingers through the cat’s soft fur, giggling when cat!chuuya hugs dazai’s hand to its stomach with its paws, nipping at the bandages peaking out of his coat sleeve softly.

chuuya on the other hand, loves all kinds of animals. he doesn’t actually notice the resemblance between the black cat and his ex-partner at first, although he does suspect something with the slightly dirty bandages that wrap around the cat’s front half and on its right paw. he lets cat!dazai lean in to sniff his gloved hands first, and is stunned when the cat only bits onto one of the fingertips softly to pull it off, nuzzling its head into chuuya’s hand. chuuya pulls off the other glove and tucks both into his pant pockets, carefully reaching out to wrap his hands around the cat to bring it to his chest, breaking out into a smile when the cat meows and uses its paw to bat at his face softly.

i think they would both love cat!skk, and cat!skk would love them back. i’m sorry i’m just a cat person i promise i’m not crazy about them (i’m a pathological liar).

[marblerose-rue]

click for better quality!

i dont draw my own characters unless its for a special occasion so drawing noah and cedric is a bit of a treat :]

[hollysoda]

Personal thoughts:

Cat person ⬇️

Sky

Wind

Legend

Wild

Both ↕️

Twilight

Time

Warriors

Hyrule

Four

Dog person ⬆️

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

nothing like a call from your mother to make that escapism feel extra sweet

[sanchoyo]

watching a lot of cooking videos lately (great for background noise while working) and just saw one where a cat hops on the KITCHEN COUNTER while the lady is cooking 🤢 that is disgusting do ppl rly let their animals up there!! that kitty has stepped in its litter box maam!!! or it could shed on that counter!!! and you're prepping food up there rn!! ew!!!

[apostate-in-an-alcove]

The way people act like dogs misbehave to personally offend them or to "get back" at them is ridiculous. Assuming a dog's behaviour is rooted in malice towards you is incredibly stupid actually.

[bonafidehero]

Photos I took of my pets as a child in the 90s

[cappucosmico]

going to kill myself over the state of my wallet rn

[starburstsobsessions]

puppies are SO much work and they only get harder 🧍 my 5 and a half month old German shepherd pup is starting to push boundaries and she is still biting a good bit (less than she was, but in a different way now) and is starting to try and ignore me despite my best efforts.

Anybody got any tips/support/it gets better words for me? 😭😭😭 the puppy blues are REAL. German shepherds have an extremely bad reputation where I live and I actually haven’t personally met good ones so I just have a lot of worries. WAH!!!!!

This is her btw she’s sooooo cute 💕 sometimes 👿

[skrunksthatwunk]

just found out rascal (babycat)'s been with his owner this whole time instead of my roommate which is. something. :|

[toastingpencils37]

I hate when movies make a villainous character, give them a cat as a pet, and then make the cat a fucking asshole to every other character, and not have any good cats in it. And when they make the main character hate cats as well.

I'm not against movies having villainous characters having cats as pets, but they should either make the cat really sweet, or go a route like Bolt did and have a cat as a protagonist. And, if the main character at first hates cats, like Bolt did, give them character development, like the writers did with Bolt, and make him start to not hate cats.

(And yes, I know Mittens was also an asshole at the start, but she had a lot of development throughout the movie as well, going from someone who manipulated people in order to survive to someone who didn't feel the need to do so)

Also, I hate it when movies or books, even when the cats are painted as good, make cats & dogs always mortal enemies with no exceptions. (*cough* Warriors *cough*)

[terrainofheartfelt]

do you have any dan and cats headcannons?

oh boy! let's see if I can come up with a few.

we know that we were robbed of a bromance between dan and marx humphrey because of jenny's ALLERGIES (but really production was probably like maybe let's not have to deal with the logistics and cost of having a pet on the show)

also Marx is the cat name from the books, but we all just sort of ran with it bc that name rocks, but I think in the show Dan calls the family cat Iggy (named after Iggy Pop? I presume? who's idea was that?)

I think dan is just a animal guy, every pet who meets him loves him.

when he meets Handsome Dan and Cat Waldorf, they are both best friends with him IMMEDIATELY. Blair is annoyed because she used to be the favorite.

Dan is pretty lowkey on the purchasing of Things for cats, because he knows the first rule of owning a cat is that if you buy any toy or furniture specifically made for them they will ignore it.

Like Blair and Nate would absolutely be those people who want to buy All The Things for the cat and Dan would be like "you know they won't be interested in any of this, right?" and Nate and Blair are surprised every time.

in my current fic, Vanessa has a pet cat named Judith Butler after the acclaimed philosopher. I like to think Dan's nickname for her is "Gender Trouble" (bc one of my mom's go-to nicknames for our cats is Trouble and that sounds like a danism) (I know Kate Winslet has a dog in the movie but I like cats more. my fic my rules.) (also vanessa has a cat and dan doesn't for Jenny Reasons)

when Dair adopt cats as a grown up couple, they pretentiously name them Truman and Daphne (after Capote and Du Maurier). They like Dan more. Blair is Offended.

[weaselle]

had an interaction with a cat at my mother's friend's house (we dropped by to feed her while my mom's friend was out of town) and my mother said "i was surprised how much that cat liked you, she doesn't usually let people pet her but she followed you around and let you pet her a lot"

and in explaining to her my interaction with the cat i put into words a thing i'd never put into words before, having always automatically understood what i was doing. But once i put it into words my mother said she'd never thought of that and it felt like something worth sharing here.

This cat did a typical cat thing where she sniffed my fingers i was holding out, and then acted like she wanted me to pet her, but then when i started to move to pet her, moved her head away slightly to prevent it.

I instinctively understand this interaction, and stopped trying to pet her and moved back to a neutral position and waited to see if she would re-initiate an interaction.

Because this is basically a consent test. This is how a cat can assess "how closely are you paying attention to what i'm telling you" and "how respectful of my boundaries are you".

If i am responsive to her yes/no game, moving to pet her when she indicates i can, stopping immediately when she seems to change her mind, then she knows she can trust me to understand her, and also to respect her choices. That's what i did, so then she knew she could trust me and relax around me and enjoy my company. She was actually a very friendly and social little cat, who clearly wanted to make friends with me.

But if i had insisted on trying to pet her when she seemed to change her mind instead of simply understanding that she didn't want to be pet in that moment, she would have known she couldn't trust me to understand or respect her, and she would have treated me like she has to treat 90% of the people who visit that house, evidently.

I work mostly with dogs these days, but i grew up with cats too, and am generally good with animals. Many shy animals will also do this same "sniff sniff okay touch me nope just kidding" routine, especially if they've had experiences with people that make establishing that kind of communication and trust important to them.

And in fact, a lot of animals will do some version of this kind of consent test in a whole variety of situations. When well socialized dogs do that thing where they are rough housing and then they both stop suddenly for a moment until one of them play bows or makes a little pouncing motion and then they fly back into rough housing mode, that's what they are doing, they are doing a consent check-in, like "whoah this is getting wild, are you still in? are we still playing, is this still a good time for you?"

anyway, that's why this lovely little cat followed me around asking me to pet her the whole time we were visiting that house, because i showed her that i understood her signals and respected her boundaries, which is something i see a lot of both men and women not doing when interacting with cats and dogs.