You can call your cat anything you want, they still won’t come.
That’s when you break out the tuna can. Try to see them resist that shit
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Cat smol.
My cat was an “old man cat” for a while before he passed.
Anyhow, a “man cat” just sounds like a cat who dresses up like a man and fights crime
Yes, but Lady Cat and Gentleman Cat just sounds like cats being fancy. And cats are fancy.
You haven’t met my chonker
fancy chonker
He is not fancy
He reminds me of Missouri
Shape wise? Or because he particularly enjoys barbecue?
The people
That’s still fancier then mississippi
Worse food tho
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respect my authoritay
Man cheetah
or a human/cat hybrid. like splice.
Generally speaking, the terms man and woman are reserved specifically for humans. I couldn’t tell you why, but I suppose it doesn’t really matter.
For pets, the use of boy/girl probably does have a lot to do with how people tend to infantilize their companion animals.
Additionally, the boy / girl terminology is often generalized to cover all animals, particularly when adults are interacting with children and by extension when children are interacting with each other. It’s not uncommon to have a child ask something like “is that a boy rabbit or a girl rabbit?” but it is a little unusual to hear an adult ask another adult that same question, unless it’s sort of tongue-in-cheek or maybe in the presence of kids.
I do call my doggo ‘old man’, but never just called him a man.
Adults would generally use actual adjectives, ‘male/female cat’ instead of ‘man/woman/boy/girl cat’
My 16yo cat is definitely a prim and proper old lady. Oddly, I call the 4yo Maine Coon “little man” even though he’s easily 4x the old lady’s size
I’m probably forever going to call my dog “bestest girl”, but she’s starting to get a grey muzzle too
Because they are all fur babies. Always.
Not a lot of cats grow to be 18 years old.
When you’re 50 years old and start dating someone do you call them your wo/manfriend?
She’s not my special lady, she’s my fucking lady friend.
I only very vaguely remember applying this tag to you, but it’s making me chuckle. Most likely that’s why I did it.
How do you do this?
It varies per client, but for me (Connect on Android), tap a comment to expand it or open a user profile, then tap the three dots, then tap “add user note.” I’ve heard that some other clients call it a tag rather than a note.
I’m just using default Lemmy in the browser 😔
My friend had a a cat that as a human would have been a balding, neurotic man with a mustache and glasses. A very high strung cat tbh. His name was Mr. Pappy.
IMO:
Boy/Girl cat implies gender.
Man/Woman cat implies anthropomorphism.
Man animal you say? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3OzAfcPb3A
Right but why is that your opinion of how those words work? Because the only strict differentiation between man/boy and woman/girl is age.
Boy and girl cats grow up??
Because they get neutered/spayed
I can hold onto many feelings and ideas at once.
My orange baby boy is an old man.
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because they stay smol!
Because that would be a cattasrophe!
