• JoShmoe@ani.social
      23·
      5 months ago

      Sent it off with one powerful friendship kick to start their epic survival adventure.

      • 342345@feddit.de
        6·
        5 months ago

        Send it off with one powerful friendship kick to start their epic survival adventure.

        I never expected to read these words in that order. Well done.

      • tubaruco@lemm.ee
        2·
        5 months ago

        where water and food are unavailable and the only thing that can help you is miles away and possibly sleeping

  • Noodle07@lemmy.world
    32·
    5 months ago

    On Mars you wouldn’t be able to have cabinets tall enough so that your cat can’t jump on them

    • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      5 months ago

      The cabinet could be 20 feet tall and they’d still figure out how to get up there.

      My parents have 4 cats and these ones are a lot different than all of the other cats we’ve had over the decades. My parents have a wall mounted cabinet where the bottom portion is about 5 feet off the ground and the top of it is about 8 feet off the ground. There’s about 6-9" between the top and the ceiling, and various decorations up there… The kitchen table is about a foot in front of it, at normal height, about 3-4 feet from the ground.

      One day I noticed one of the cats was on top of the cabinet! That’s a good 6 foot jump at a steep angle (100°, 110°? I suck at Trig) and she didn’t move a single decoration!

      • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        5 months ago

        I got bored and was curious myself.

        Assuming a cat can jump just over 2m (record is around 7’ apparently) then you have a launch velocity of around 6.5m/s. Plugging this in as an escape velocity works out to around a 1-2km diameter asteroid. Not huge, but not bad for a small animal.

        My error bars are quite large, so it’s only an order of magnitude calculation.

        • abbotsbury@lemmy.world
          3·
          5 months ago

          Yeah thats not bad, assuming the asteroid is a perfect sphere, that comes out to a surface area of 12km2 for an interstellar cat colony that can move into orbit at will.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
    331·
    5 months ago

    Quick reminder: you SPCA will tell you that a cat living 100% indoors will ensure Kitty and the surrounding bird population are happier for many years longer.

    “He rarely goes out” is the worst setting.

    Your car isn’t somehow special either.

    It used to be double. DOUBLE! now it’s even worse.

    • CustardFist@feddit.nlOPEnglish
      77·
      5 months ago

      Doorknob… Parakeet… Spatula…!

      Sorry. Couldn’t find the right words to respond to this, so… 🫣

    • leftzero@lemmynsfw.com
      918·
      5 months ago

      Fuck birds. They should have gone extinct 65 million years ago with the rest of the dinosaurs. This is the age of mammals. They had almost 200 million years (plus 65 million freeloading after their time was up), that should be way more than enough. Let the cats have their fun.

      • CryptidBestiary@lemmy.world
        17·
        5 months ago

        Just in case people do take this seriously, birds are important. If you want to take your cats out, supervise them or put them on a leash. The environment and your cats ARE better off not mangling with each other.

      • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        5 months ago

        even if you dislike birds, cats don’t limit their murdersprees to just birds. they’re an invasive species; do yours a favor and keep it in like I do. Their lives are longer and better.

        • LwL@lemmy.world
          32·
          5 months ago

          I am heavily questioning the life of a confined cat being better than the life of a cat that is free to go where it wants. The moment you have 2 cats that get along it’s unlikely to be a bad life, but you have no way of telling how another being unable to communicate complex thoughts to you considers their quality of life to be.

          • CryptidBestiary@lemmy.world
            3·
            5 months ago

            You also got to realize people are also putting their cats at risk by letting them go out on their own while there are wild life out. There are coyotes, predatory birds, big cats, etc. that will not hesitate in including house cats as their food. There are too many stories of cat owners losing their cats because they never came back home

            • LwL@lemmy.world
              2·
              5 months ago

              That is true (well, where I live there are few actual dangers to cats but that’s just region dependent) but in general I believe a short, but more fulfilling life to be better than a longer, less fulfilling one. Which I’m aware is subjective.

            • leftzero@lemmynsfw.com
              23·
              5 months ago

              There are coyotes, predatory birds, big cats, etc.

              Not in the civilised world there ain’t. We ate, domesticated, or otherwise drove those to extinction hundreds or even thousands of years ago.

              Most dangerous things around these parts (besides free-roaming cats) are cars, and a good public transport system together with a street and road network built around pedestrians and bikes (and said public transport) will get rid of most of those, too (though the reduction in noise might lead to more birds; nothing is perfect).

              • CryptidBestiary@lemmy.world
                2·
                5 months ago

                I can’t speak for where you live in, but these are still real considerations for any pet owner. Wild life still exists inside and outside of urban areas, especially suburban areas. Just because there may not be as much sightings of predators around the areas you live in doesn’t mean the same for other people who live in different areas

      • leftzero@lemmynsfw.com
        61·
        5 months ago

        That’s the spirit! Let bats take those ecological niches! Bats are cool, and unlike birds they don’t go crapping everywhere, they do it tidily in their caves.

    • Rubanski@lemm.ee
      8·
      5 months ago

      Holy shit, is this the reason of “can’t decide if want to be here or there, so I must scream”, not the wish to be on the other side but the very door itself?

      • gandalf_der_12te@feddit.de
        6·
        5 months ago

        I believe so. Cats’ brains seem to be unable to deal with closed doors, in my experience. If you add a passage, like a cat’s door to the door, then it’s fine.

        • Rubanski@lemm.ee
          3·
          5 months ago

          This explains so much. If you see it from this perspective it makes perfect sense