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[–] Saledovil 40 points 2 days ago (39 children)

I have this theory that with proper technique, you can beat anything you can lift in a fight. That being said, Gorillas are too heavy to lift. Conversely, you'll likely have extreme difficulty fighting anything that's too heavy for you to lift. Anything with natural weapons, like sharp teeth, this rule of thumb likely also doesn't apply to. Anything larger than a cat should be considered dangerous by default.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Even cats will fuck you up if they really intend to.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Only to a point though. They can break your skin, but they're so small that you can literally throw them across the room. There's no way a cat survives a human trying to kill them short of running away.

[–] LH0ezVT 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think part of the problem with cats is that you don't want to injure the cat, but the cat has no problem with injuring you. The stories I hear from people who dealt with panicking/aggressive cats are mostly about catching the cat without hurting it, while avoiding getting hurt yourself.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was in a situation where a friend's very aggressive cat was looking at a small lizard that escaped while I was supposed to be feeding both, but not to each other obviously. Basically I had to willingly put my hands into a blender to solve this. But I managed to get her into a different room and close the on her without hurting her in any way.

Oh, and the lizard also bit me when I picked it up to put it back into its terrarium, but at that point I was way past caring.

[–] rainrain 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Goddammit. It makes me want to do drugs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

What doesn't make you want to do drugs??

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Exactly, I guess that was what I was getting at. A cat will mess you up, but only as long as you tolerate it. (I love cats btw. would never dream of hurting one)

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