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[–] neidu3 67 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Cats will be cats

[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Imagining a tiger aggressively showing me it's asshole....

Not in the deviant art way.

[–] neidu3 26 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm not into furry stuff, but I imagine that's basically how a yiff starts.

[–] Enkers 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

*Notices you pause grooming*

OwO what's this?

[–] jballs 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wtf is a yiff? You know what, never mind.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

do you not see yiff everyday? oh wait that might be just my instance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Pet tiger jumps on bed. 500 pounds of muscle paces in a circle beside you. You pet them on their head as they rotate away from your head scratches as your hand hugs be base of their back and they present their asshole to you.

Cats

[–] spankinspinach 30 points 3 days ago (4 children)

These cats are absolutely lethal. I hike a lot and have a legitimate fear of being stalked by one (happened to a friend, the only reason she saw it was cuz she stopped to tie her boot, she had no idea). The fact they behave like normal cats strikes me as odd cuz you don't realize how scary a big fluffy kitty can actually be

[–] sunoc 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

« Why friend shaped? »

[–] spankinspinach 6 points 2 days ago

I want hug giant furball. But I also want keep face attached to body!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

All cats are finely tuned stealth killing machines (though some are lazy). House cats are just optimized for rodent-sized prey, though they are still capable of putting up a decent fight against larger things. Though I'm curious if cats evolved to trigger "cute" recognition or if primates evolved to find things that include cats cute.

[–] spankinspinach 3 points 2 days ago

I will always argue that all mammals, if not broader categories, have cute recognition. I think it's a fair play mechanism that evolved so that most species will cut other species' young some slack in a brutal world, for the most part - with exceptions. I have no evidence for it, but I've seen enough animal interaction in my life to not feel completely unfounded either.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'll tell you one thing, of all the terrible ways to die, being chased down by a lynx who just finished locking its bunghole with its tongue is the worst. Not only will you be dying, but you'll also smell like lynx ass.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

smell like lynx ass

They changed the name to Lynx Africa after some focus group findings

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Murder mittens

[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 days ago

Big fluffy beans

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago

"Do you mind ?!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

For a split second I thought this was a person in a very elaborate fursuit lol

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

I'm still not convinced.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

One of my cats fell asleep in that pose in somebody's lap.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

my name is lynx,
and wen it snows,
or wen the moon
shines on my toes,
i run all day,
and then nite falls,
leg stuck in air,
i lik my balls.

re

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

Big paws