Reposting a question I saw on reddit like a decade ago. My favorite answer I read was, “I’d take my 100 dogs home and live like a king.”

Personally, I have two cats, Sansa and Shere Khan. For both, I could significantly narrow down the options by seeing which cats meowed at me the most. (I swear I didn’t teach them to yell, but here we are.) For both, I could bring in a dog to discern which cats weren’t scared of dogs. For Sansa, I could wait until dinnertime and put down some wet food, then see who hems and haws about eating it despite having screamed for it. That might not be enough to get it down to just one each, but oh well. I could use 5 or 10 more cats.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    By “identical” I’m going to mean you want me to pick Izzy out of a lineup of 100 female grey cats.

    Wait and see which one starts yelling at precisely 3:45 PM. That’ll be my Izzy, that’s her loudest meal time.

    • shalafi@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      I don’t have to wait. My pig runs when I whistle. It’s storming right now and he’d bolt out into the rain if I whistled.

      Alternatively, bring in the lady next door who feeds him almost daily. He’d started honking and pigging and running to her.