Do Cats Manipulate Us For Resources Or Love Us?

Detractors of the domestic cat will argue that they don’t love their human companion but manipulate them into providing resources such as security, warmth and the all-important food.

Supporters of the domestic cat will argue that they truly do have genuine affection towards us. They miss us when we are not there. Dogs are the same. You must have seen the videos of dogs at home alone pacing and crying out, confused and then settling down patiently waiting.

The question that in the title to this short post is silly because we know they love us:

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28 thoughts on “Do Cats Manipulate Us For Resources Or Love Us?”

  1. Wow, this illicits a lot of words in effort to decide or debate if it’s this or that. The answer is simply: both. There’s no harm in concluding both and many answers can be true.

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  2. Monty’s Mom:

    Do not be alarmed. This proclivity may be universal in cats. One summer day, shortly after moving down here, am minding own business, lolling on blanket in secluded backyard, when Bunny, my panther-man, comes sauntering by, does a double-take and makes a BEELINE FOR CHEST-DOT! (Think Molly & Leopold Bloom here.) Am aghast, dead-sure some hummingbird-sized, Pentagon-spy-drone is hovering in the empyrean, filming scenario. Pry loose helpless dot from puckered cat-lips and dash into house, remaining there for rest of day. End of sun-bath.
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    Caroline: Don’t ever go back there. They sound vindictive. Surely there are other vets within a sane commute? Shop around. The I.Magnin/Saks 5th Avenue vet I’d been going to for years charged three times what a vet a mile down the road charged, and the latter was 30 years younger, state-of-the-art competent, attentive and kind to my cats.

    Another possibility: don’t know what attorneys are like in your neck of the woods, but out here on the west coast the P-I practitioners are ambulance-chasers. What’s more, lawyers advertise their services on the media nowadays, and might be able to jump-start the undoing of vets who declaw. No…one cat with bone splinters would hardly provide a case to retire on, but the lawyers could wad together thousands of fiends into class-action suits. Everyone’s litigious to the nth, and ‘owners’ who declawed their poor cats would come forward in droves, lusting for and likely receiving a modest settlement. The cats could be x-rayed for a couple of hundred dollars or less, and the plaintiffs and lawyers might net a couple of thousand from each cat.
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    Dee — TWELVE years old, you say? A few days ago I sat next to this 2nd-grader who was whipping in and out of these diagnostic screens, swaying in his chair, elbows akimbo, and thundering away at the keyboard like Ignace Paderewski while I sat there hunting for the Shift key. Could have throttled the little b**ger.
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    Kylie – of course they love you – and of course they make a house a home. My own house, right now, isn’t much more than a sepulcher. Send in some more of your nifty photos and write another great article! xx

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    • I really couldnt imagine having no cats they are so part of my life now i couldnt imagine life without them. When i was little i had a fear of dogs as when i was a baby had these puppies that were just licking me. Wasnt until i was 9 or 10 i got used to having a dog. Then later on in life i began to accept them. Cats have always been the constant love and were able to cope much better with. They like the Children i never had.

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  3. Im totally sure they love us well mine do. I know they have them own way of appreciating what we do for them in small ways and big ways. Their love is unconditional and without it my life wouldnt be much interesting or happy.

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