Post #2730340
2026-05-08 03:10 UTC
Replies (4)
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@JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2026-05-08 06:08
On a tangent, what’s your stance on various people on YT ‘domesticating’ feral cats and other semi-wild and wild animals by wearing heavy gloves, then repeatedly invading their personal space over a course of days (like a month, typically) and then triumphantly showing that the animal is much-less stressed, and much-less freaked-out by petting, at the end of the video? I mean, I guess I’m pretty much answering my own question above. I.e. I don’t like it in general, but it does leave some Q’s about what exactly those people are doing in such cases… like, what’s being triggered… what’s being normalized… and all that stuff. It almost kinda seems like a form of slavery and Stockholm syndrome, altho I’m just an amateur speaking.
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@kambusha@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-08 07:26
Pets @kittenz@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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@luciferofastora@feddit.org 2026-05-08 09:01
There’s a cat usually lazing about one alleyway I walk down almost every day. One day recently, it suddenly jumped up as I passed and apparently decided it’s time to demand a toll in scritches. Blocked my way, craned its neck into my hand, accepted a few seconds of petting, then firmly and thoroughly headrubbed my legs and trotted away back to down and continue and guarding the passage. If anything, it failed to ask for my consent.
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@Witchfire@lemmy.world 2026-05-08 14:36
Cata are an experiment on consent, which explains why some people I know are constantly getting attacked