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(DIR) Post #AwWdOIoyUHr1Lm69Wi by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-07-26T12:36:42Z
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I can pick up our cat, Pica without a problem but she has always fought with my husband. Just squirming so much. We've found out why. She's a right handed cat. My husband is left handed. If you try to hold her on your left shoulder she's used to it, but try to hold her on your right shoulder? She freaks out. I tried to pick her up "left handed" and suddenly had the same problems as my husband. So if you have this issue, try switching. He can now pick her up. #PicaTheCat
(DIR) Post #AwWdX30kddJyvFmD8C by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-07-26T12:38:17Z
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I'm trying to pick her up left-handed to desensitize her. I think my husband is scared of squishing her too hard, and that's also a problem. I keep explaining she's made of rubber and loves to be squished. Anyway.
(DIR) Post #AwWdZYmdTqis2eN8mu by dawngreeter@dice.camp
2025-07-26T12:38:43Z
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@futurebird This is fascinating!
(DIR) Post #AwWdeTr7EGX2CroWcC by lffontenelle@mastodon.social
2025-07-26T12:39:28Z
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@futurebird Is there a cat/felid species called pica? I was sure there was, but now I can't find it. Perhaps I got this idea from your cat's name?
(DIR) Post #AwWdfMxOMdET6GAoXA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-07-26T12:39:47Z
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@dawngreeter Isn't it bizarre? Every cat I've ever met is different and has a dozen quirks like this. I think they are capable of learning, but who knows what they will learn or why.
(DIR) Post #AwWeC5bvsSfArGjpHU by energisch_@troet.cafe
2025-07-26T12:45:39Z
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@futurebird rather interesting, what is really important for cats ;-)
(DIR) Post #AwWeFTAClVGIm5NeDY by nickdrawthing@dice.camp
2025-07-26T12:46:16Z
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@futurebird My old cat was the same!! He only liked sitting on the right shoulder. He was just a big ragdoll you could cart around to your heart's content, but he'd always wiggle his way over to the other shoulder.
(DIR) Post #AwWeKiy5QpGvEuDZaa by dawngreeter@dice.camp
2025-07-26T12:47:07Z
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@futurebird I have definitely lived with some odd, odd cats. One dude cat I had would "steal" a kitten from our neighbours. And always the same one. And he'd groom it and lie with it like a mom cat would.But this is entirely a new one for me. So interesting.
(DIR) Post #AwWeUoEghWuoTNn9jk by jmax@mastodon.social
2025-07-26T12:49:01Z
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@futurebird Humans can be slow learners, but I'm sure she understands, and is happy that you've figured it out.
(DIR) Post #AwWeYE1ZHEO5K5Hfii by TheOtterDragon@eldritch.cafe
2025-07-26T12:49:39Z
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@futurebird Oooooooh :amaze: cats are so weird, I love them
(DIR) Post #AwWevbD1F7W9tCmmEy by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-07-26T12:53:55Z
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@lffontenelle There is small animal called a "Pika" which is like a large mouse, but it's not a rodent, it's more like an off-brand bunny rabbit.
(DIR) Post #AwWfdesEyiCfzu4l9M by lffontenelle@mastodon.social
2025-07-26T13:01:50Z
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@futurebird Thanks! Now I just have to figure out which cat I was calling Pika! 😅 (not important)
(DIR) Post #AwWgIblHSEGWDZLYIq by falcennial@mastodon.social
2025-07-26T13:09:16Z
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@futurebird WOW
(DIR) Post #AwWgmrP9rFFvQDQNH6 by davep@infosec.exchange
2025-07-26T13:14:44Z
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@futurebird Cats are weird little buggers, part eleventy...
(DIR) Post #AwWgsXCZsuLSV8FIXI by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-07-26T13:15:46Z
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@futurebird @dawngreeter I think every cat I've lived with had preferences, or requirements (depending on cat), about how they got picked up, some much more so than others. In some cases it was clear injury was the cause, but in most cases there was no reason known to me.
(DIR) Post #AwWgtdFQtJ27Xg6XQW by superflippy@mastodon.xyz
2025-07-26T13:13:30Z
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@dawngreeter @futurebird I used to have a neighbor cat who would leave her kittens with our male cat to “babysit”!
(DIR) Post #AwWgte5BmsQw8CJs6C by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-07-26T13:15:54Z
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@superflippy @dawngreeter "here take these I'll be back later"
(DIR) Post #AwWh9SUwctKmpruHIm by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-07-26T13:18:48Z
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@llewelly @dawngreeter Pica also requires a 100 percent wool blanket before she gets on your lap. You may think this would mean you could keep her off of your lap by not having the blanket she likes, but she will pace around, tap you, and make such an issue of it until you get a 100 percent wool blanket.Should you get the 80 percent wool blanket? you Fool! she will get on your lap but then move around so much it's annoying. Then you will get the correct blanket. We have been TRAINED.
(DIR) Post #AwWhd3LqgZNpX2lQO0 by adminnum0@expressional.social
2025-07-26T13:24:09Z
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(DIR) Post #AwWhe9lkJIVFj3P4C0 by TofuTheSquirrel@piaille.fr
2025-07-26T13:24:14Z
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@futurebird it reminds me if my kids, whom I carried a lot when they where young. Usually, on my right side. Sometimes, when my right arm was getting tired, I tried to move them to the left side. THEY HATED IT ! 😱
(DIR) Post #AwWi2qL5gfsIhjhthY by revk@toot.me.uk
2025-07-26T13:28:42Z
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@futurebird wow!
(DIR) Post #AwWiLtAzMaWX0P40Q4 by toerror@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-07-26T13:32:12Z
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@futurebird @llewelly @dawngreeter My boy won't sleep on the bed unless I put the 100% wool beadspread on it. Has it's uses though, you can put it in a designated spot on the bed and he'll just sleep there rather than somehow taking over the entire bed.
(DIR) Post #AwWiNmZUtGeD6IQjMe by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-07-26T13:32:38Z
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@toerror @llewelly @dawngreeter I wonder why they like wool so much?
(DIR) Post #AwWifvgTkTggZjLgw4 by dawngreeter@dice.camp
2025-07-26T13:35:54Z
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@futurebird @toerror @llewelly Cats are not the sort to skimp on quality.
(DIR) Post #AwWj6drk6YfD8DM4P2 by riff@toot.aquilenet.fr
2025-07-26T13:40:36Z
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@futurebird it's the same with Indie: shoulders *must* be climbed and sat on from left to right, she will protest and squirm if you try to get her up otherwise.Strange cats.
(DIR) Post #AwWjfaaeH9aF6j1W76 by bucknam@mastodon.social
2025-07-26T13:47:02Z
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@futurebird @llewelly @dawngreeter reminds me of the saying that dogs have owners, and cats have staff.
(DIR) Post #AwWovEitqMjDh0AC36 by xbezdick@masto.ai
2025-07-26T14:45:52Z
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@futurebird @lkundrak
(DIR) Post #AwWpYFL7UA2AtkdrKC by SenseException@phpc.social
2025-07-26T14:52:53Z
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@futurebird I didn't expect that to happen. 🐈
(DIR) Post #AwWr0ryNXdYSmODXUW by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-07-26T15:09:19Z
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@Bikil @llewelly @dawngreeter Pica has asked me to post a question for you. She'd like to know:"Why would you share such an embarrassing mistake publicly? We are aware that Staff can be clueless but my Staff feel more shame about their errors of this magnitude."(This is true, sadly.)
(DIR) Post #AwWsAswIu1v6cwaQee by benroyce@mastodon.social
2025-07-26T15:22:19Z
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@futurebird i am in a household where all other family members have a better time with the cat than mei am on the only left handed person in the house🤯 thank youi'm going to apply this
(DIR) Post #AwWsUfzEloKQFMOb4q by tantramar@mastodon.social
2025-07-26T15:25:54Z
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@futurebird Oooh! Must try this with Ripley. She lets me pick her up, but always squirms to get away quickly — while Jonesy will happily let me carry him around. (To be clear, they’re both very social & like to be close/touching/on me most of the time.)
(DIR) Post #AwWwUsqTMUBxwZeORc by kinsale42@mstdn.games
2025-07-26T16:10:43Z
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@futurebird omg I just picked up Stella backwards and she didn't fuss at all (I didn't hold her for very long because I didn't want to push my luck)And it kind of makes sense now too, because I saw something recently about cats usually sleeping on their left side but she normally sleeps on her right side.
(DIR) Post #AwWySR99ZctVMoLioy by ferrix@mastodon.online
2025-07-26T16:32:43Z
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@futurebird left handed: so sinister
(DIR) Post #AwWzPTyQhqcPDiULse by ottaross@mastodon.social
2025-07-26T16:43:24Z
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@futurebird some cats are metric, some imperial.
(DIR) Post #AwX0JFseI8g3jANYxc by WideEyedCurious@mstdn.social
2025-07-26T16:53:27Z
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@futurebird Cats definitely have a preference between left and right.
(DIR) Post #AwX1V2Tg345TaYsihs by draeath@infosec.exchange
2025-07-26T17:06:46Z
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@futurebird @lffontenelle Pica is also a mental health thing, eating or wanting to eat things like dirt, wood, and stones 😅
(DIR) Post #AwX5CsGxeT14XgWmHY by KatS@chaosfem.tw
2025-07-26T17:48:19Z
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@futurebirdHoward is very much a right-shoulder cat. Sling him diagonally across your torso, and he's good.The twist is that he's rotationally consistent about it: he also loves to be held on his back like a baby (pls rub belly) with his head toward the left shoulder.His brother was the opposite: he had to be on my left shoulder. And don't try to hold him upside down.
(DIR) Post #AwXCjohsd68Gibm3VY by djm62@beige.party
2025-07-26T19:12:40Z
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@futurebird on cat handedness... some great intuitive dataviz
(DIR) Post #AwXWj6VqwL7Ojj5OGu by jbaggs@infosec.exchange
2025-07-26T22:56:43Z
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@futurebird I never realized cats had some sort of chiral instinct. Somehow it makes sense though.
(DIR) Post #AwXY7RTojh9IfYIqmW by tim_lavoie@cosocial.ca
2025-07-26T23:12:18Z
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@futurebird Our daughter and son-in-law's cat is named Ruby, but also known as "Right Boob Rube" for her distinct side preference.Our Luna definitely prefers my left shoulder.
(DIR) Post #AwXYPSiIt7RFhwfgwK by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-07-26T23:15:31Z
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@ska It's because she's small and spicy.
(DIR) Post #AwXYQJIbNPN4na3Pjk by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-07-26T23:15:46Z
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@tim_lavoie "Right Boob Rube"OMG
(DIR) Post #AwXbN14myJDnH8iKvY by nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social
2025-07-26T23:48:37Z
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@futurebird Oh my goodness, it never even occurred to me to try something like this! Most cats are left-pawed supposedly and I am left-handed at cat picking up I guess (I thought that was being right-handed since I pet with my right.)I'll have to give this a shot with one of the cats that normally hates it when I pick them up!
(DIR) Post #AwXg2MA1stSAME8K9Y by nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social
2025-07-27T00:38:41Z
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@djm62 @futurebird For a moment I interpreted this graphic as being about which way they turn to sleep. 😁 (Ok, handedness might influence that.)
(DIR) Post #AwXg2NH9jskRocTWts by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-07-27T00:41:03Z
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@nazokiyoubinbou @djm62 No, I think you are correct, that's exactly what it's about!
(DIR) Post #AwXgH6p5BzNJ8EN12O by nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social
2025-07-27T00:43:43Z
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@futurebird @djm62 :ThumbsUpCool:
(DIR) Post #AwZFVlWOMdB0xpJOeu by lienrag@mastodon.tedomum.net
2025-07-27T18:53:13Z
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@futurebird I just noticed : is your cat's name in reference to the disease ?(apparently cats can suffer from it)
(DIR) Post #AwZH1VdR44CQujJ5Xs by DrOinFL@mstdn.party
2025-07-27T19:10:05Z
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@futurebird Most girl cats are right-handed; most boy cats are lefties.
(DIR) Post #AwzSmz4JnCUPPvUwQC by whangdoodler@piipitin.fi
2025-08-09T10:15:01Z
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@llewelly @toerror @dawngreeter @futurebird our dog was staying with spouses parents while we were on a weekend trip.her 100% woollen blanket was left behind by accident.it is not her blanket anymore, one of their cats has claimed it now.