What's your best/worst joke?

[CJ_London]

 

[Cotswold]

 

[Cotswold]

 

[The_Doc_Man]

This says something profound about the depth perception of cats vs. dogs. Rather obviously, they see things differently. Dogs can see the illusion and see it as a danger. The problem with cats is that I'm not sure whether they can't see optical illusions or just don't care.

 

[AccessBlaster]

or just don't care.

That's been my experience

 

[Cotswold]

The people who can talk cat and claim to understand them, believe the cats mistake the courgette for a snake. Maybe even if they've never seen a snake. After seeing this I'd need to test this if I ever go to a house with cats. Couldn't help myself

 

[Vassago]

The people who can talk cat and claim to understand them, believe the cats mistake the courgette for a snake. Maybe even if they've never seen a snake. After seeing this I'd need to test this if I ever go to a house with cats. Couldn't help myself

It's not even about the object. If anything changes in a cats immediate environment and they don't see it or hear it, it's still spook them when they notice it. It's instinct. It's also a bit stressful to do this to them intentionally. It's not healthy for them.

 

[Cotswold]

..... It's also a bit stressful to do this to them intentionally. It's not healthy for them.

Not sure about that.
Cats don't seem stressed when they tear a bird to pieces, then amble off totally unconcerned, leaving the ground carpeted in feathers.
The lion that mauled a teenager to death in Brazil this week didn't look stressed. Every animal is stressed at one time or another. Stress is a part of life. When I was young stress hadn't been invented so we just coped with it.

Cats are a creature that people buy as some sort of live emotionless toy to feed that never bonds with them and is quite capable of coping with a little stressing. At least doing this to these cats has an amusing result, which is more than the birds feel when pointlessly killed. Think of it not as stress but more a punishment for the deaths the cat dishes out to anything smaller than itself on a daily basis.

 

[Isaac]

When I was young stress hadn't been invented so we just coped with it

Amen to that. A big part of the mental health "crisis" is simply that we are calling everything a crisis

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Well, gosh... everyone else seems to be having fun playing the role of victim so I guess I'll have to join that bandwagon and have a crisis.