un: δαήμων; backdated to March 31

[eudaimonikos]

How do you take care of a cat?

[He could probably google this but y'all are like right there.]

Comments

[soft_focus]

That's good too!

Good luck finding things to play with, with them!

(Do they have a name or are they just cat...)

[eudaimonikos]

[Their name might be Sacrifice, it's unclear.]

Thanks!

[hippocarnival]

what's that mean?

[eudaimonikos]

Sacrifice

[hippocarnival]

NO

[eudaimonikos]

=D

[no_dejare_de_quererte]

[That is the opposite of fine!]

Honestly, anything that they can bat around or sit in or hide under. Feathers and string are common toys. Cardboard boxes are usually a favorite. There's also a pet store in town, and I'm sure they have cat toys for sale there.

I can't tell if you're joking or not... So I'm going to warn you that cats like to knock things over. They will do it while staring you dead in the eye. They are shameless.

[eudaimonikos]

Relatable

[I could link you that gif of Michael destroying things and shoving stuff off tables, but I'm sure you'll believe me when I say he's just a big housecat.]

UN: xhatgurlx

[hattersgonnahat]

i thought we weren't allowed to have pets.

where are you keeping a cat????

[eudaimonikos]

[wait, is that a real rule?


eh, he doesn't care]

My apartment. I'm a professor, I do what I want.

un: chiefhaddock

[wherenoonegoes]

Everyone's covered pretty much everything so far? I'm just going to tell you not to pet the cat unless they let you. Otherwise you'll get scratched

un: chiefhaddock

[wherenoonegoes]

I'm fairly sure that that's the exact opposite of true.

[hattersgonnahat]

oh.

[Easy enough of an explanation.]

in that case, you need to buy it a lot of toys!! especially the ones on strings. with the feathers. they like those ones best.

[hattersgonnahat]

really??? WE CAN OWN PETS?!

[Why didn't anyone say so?]

[eudaimonikos]

They want to feel like they're killing a bird.


It would be bad to get them actual birds though, right?

[eudaimonikos]

Is that why humans take out their claws sometimes?
This one has claws.

[wherenoonegoes]

...wait, people do that? That's a terriblr idea. Cats need those. Most animals with claws do.

Look, don't remove the cats claws. If they start scratching anything important there are much better ways of dealing with it that don't involve removing bodyparts.

[eudaimonikos]

I'm not going to take out its claws. Those are its primary weapons.

[weird daemon-y way of approaching it, but technically not wrong!]

Though I don't think it's very good at fighting.
Can you train a cat to fight?

[wherenoonegoes]

I mean...theoretically? But I wouldn't suggest it. They're small ambush predators, so they're not built for it. If you want them do anything besides be a pet? Let them hunt pests.

Assuming it's a normal cat, anyways. Magic cats? You can throw everything I just said out the window.

[eudaimonikos]

It isn't about having it fight for me. I can fight by myself.
But it should be able to fight better.
It almost got killed by some people back in America. Maybe if it fought better it could have escaped.

[wherenoonegoes]

You"re assuming they didn't just catch it by surprise.

Even if they didn't, there are people in New Berk who managed to catch and lock up full-grown drakes before we stopped fighting them. And while I doubt the guys who catnapped your cat were Viking Warriors, it's just a normal cat. There's only so much they can actually do.

[eudaimonikos]

Combat training covers being caught by surprise.

I bet I can make it venomous.

[hattersgonnahat]

what no! don't let them kill real birds that's wrong!

[eudaimonikos]

Right, right. Just checking.

[hattersgonnahat]

...you can also try toy mice too.

[But no real ones!]

and make sure it has catnip!