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"There are a lot of things I'd like people to understand about cats but one of the top things is that cats are really pretty good at communicating with us and the idea of cats being unknowable enigmas is entirely on the human end of it

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"And again...in most of the other domestic animals that are able to communicate with us, we pre-selected for this ability. It was a top-down thing. We needed to be able to tell them to do stuff so they'd do it.

"We didn't need to tell cats to do anything. They already did stuff

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"They're not....subtle. We only think they're subtle because, so often, we haven't made the effort to understand them. We only think they're subtle because they're not like dogs and dogs are the Default for us"

-- Elle M. (they/them) (ellle_em), 2021-07-04 [Note that these are from the start and middle of a long Twiter thread about feline development and socialization -- they didn't just drop a couple of statements obvious to a lot of people who live with cats and a surprise to people who bought the stereotypes. There more in the thread.]