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.
Okay that’s Blueberry Hill smashed up, either later or tomorrow I’ll cover it with the last of the leaves to rot then I’ll smash again before the fall rains
The first rule of being rich is that you have to constantly complain about rich people.
- Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous by Good Charlotte
The second rule of being rich is that you have to continually complain about the first rule of being rich
- I Just Wanna Live by Good Charlotte
The third rule of being rich (after the first and second rules) is that you gotta have a rich friend that you love to hate and talk shit about constantly
Catholic Tumblr nazis be like im not like other girls i wish i couldve married an abusive christian trad man at 15 i never drank beer or ATE fastfood in my life and if u ever seen a picture of tits online Ur a degenerate. Everyone i dislike is a pedo bc i said so n i demand to be taken seriously as a supporter of a mainstream religion with most notable pedo scandals. Pagan Tumblr nazis be like heres the corniest looking picture of a wolf uve ever seen in ur life
Never gonna forget showing my roommate MASH after explaining it as a Korean War drama/comedy, then watching it in silence till the end where she turns to me and says that wasn’t a K-drama
Republicans need to lean into being the party of frat bros, elevate fraternity, as in bonhomie of brotherhood, as a central principle of any populist turn
I bet if people reconstructed human society from [tumblr] archives there would be a period where scholars were aware of “the elf piss ask” but had not yet encountered it
