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You guys, typically Remy will sleep in the back of his bed, and then Apollo will climb in after and cuddle with him, but this time Remy is sprawled across the whole thing, and Apollo came up and like:
This is it. The internet has come full circle. You can all go home now. We’re done.
[ID text–
First image of a burger order (translated from Turkish):
Every time I order a burger, my cat haunts me and my burger, and I can’t eat it peacefully. Can you please cook another mini burger for him by slicing 20 gram from my own burger.
Followed by image of burgers delivered, one large-sized for human consumption and one small-sized for the cat (both with french fries and bun).
Followed by image of a cat about to eat the small burger.
Followed by a meme image of a lab technician with the text:
FINALLY CAT CAN HAZ CHEEZBURGER
End ID text.]
This is followed by Tumblr user @dovewithscales’ comment “This is it. The internet has come full circle. You can all go home now. We’re done” which is a reference to the Cheezburger Meme of 2007.
[Video description: a tiktok of a cat on a couch or bed meowing quietly at the person holding the camera. Its eyes are downturned so that it looks sad, but its body language and tone of meowing indicates it is not actually distressed. /end desc]
so the best thing about this is that bobcats, like just about every feline besides lions and domestic cats, are pretty solitary. they don’t really have friends. they aren’t really equipped to make friends.
domestic cats, on the other hand, do know how to make friends. they are friendly to the point that lots of feral cats live in colonies— the females hang out together, even raise kids together, and the males like to spend nonsexual time with their baby mommas. they groom each other, play around, and have a particular tail position to signal to one another— straight up with the tip curled— that they’re friendly and happy to see each other. cats learned how to be chill with each other in order to take full advantage of human food sources: an ancient granary supplies enough rats for a lot of cats, as does a modern lady with a big bag of frisky bits, so it would be a waste of time and energy for any one cat to try and stake the entire foodsource out for exclusive use. less fighting means more eating and resting which means a longer, nicer life and a lot more kittens.
so this stray cat, she obviously has no colony if she’s wandering around and sneaking into zoo enclosures, so she’s like ‘hey! there’s food here! what up, other cat, let’s be friends, let’s be friends and share that food’. and the bobcat is like ‘??????’ because actually wild cats are pretty cautious about initiating hostilities and anything new and aggressive makes them very worried. and the domestic cat is like ‘haha cool, ok, we’re friends now, big guy. no problems.’ and the bobcat is like ‘????? well…?? ok?’ and then they are friends.
the super interesting thing about most wild cat species is they don’t really have the capacity to make friends on their own, especially outside of sibling bonds, but, if someone comes along and does all the friend-making themselves, they’ll totally roll with it. zoo cats can get really attached to their caregivers— or, in this case, a very confident little calico demonstrating exactly why her species has been so darn successful over the last nine thousand years .
so anyway that is the best thing: bobcats are not equipped to make friends, but luckily for this bobcat this homeless lady did not give any shits and made friends anyway. and now they are both happy.
