Just as i had set up my tent she came in, was raining outside. We’ve been hanging out here for half an hour already. I hope she won’t spike my sleeping pad. Necklace says her name is Kyra. Love it 🥹

    • @AchtungDrempelsOP
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      Sun’s out, she’s gone now. My tent again :) Hope she’ll be back in the evening though, we could listen to some audio book or something.

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          Must be the irresistible smell of being on a months long cycling / camping trip :)

          • @MissJinx
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            Well my cats love smelly clothes. The nastiest the better lol

    • @AchtungDrempelsOP
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      Oh yeah, this is an official campsite. I’m sure she just belongs here. She just went outside for a minute but came back in.

        • @AchtungDrempelsOP
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          I just asked the madame of the camping, it is the camping cat. There’s also another one. She said Kyra was very friendly :)

      • @Lost_My_Mind
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        I really would like to know who downvotes the comment I’m replying to, and why?

        “Oh, the cat came back??? Grumble grumble grumble, cats never come back to me…DOWNVOTE!!!”

        • @AchtungDrempelsOP
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          There was just somebody downvoting every comment that was here, nothing personal :)

            • AFK BRB Chocolate
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              I think there are some downvote bots here like there was on Reddit. Not sure what the point is, but I’ve seen some communities where every post starts at negative 1, and others where every comment seems to get a downvote. Not sure what the reasoning is. I think some people just hate the idea of other people being happy.

              • ArxCyberwolf
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                Some people have legitimately nothing better to do with their lives and enjoy bringing others down.

                • AFK BRB Chocolate
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                  97 months ago

                  There was someone in a thread here once who said when he was young he had severe depression and anger issues, and said he used to do stuff like that. He said it literally was that he was so unhappy that he hated seeing other people happy. He was embarrassed about it now, but couldn’t see past it at the time.

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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    We bought a brand new queen sized air mattress for guests and our cat poked holes in it within 5 minutes of us setting it up. Good luck to you!

    • @Lost_My_Mind
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      Well…thats your fault. You didn’t ask your cats permission before setting up a new thing. It’s your cats house. You just live there to serve them! Silly human…

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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        She was laying on it with us, enjoying it. Then she decided she had enough of that and took off like a bat out of hell, fully extending all of her claws for traction.

    • @[email protected]
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      After you patch or replace it, a quilted mattress pad is helpful for this, and maybe draping a duvet over as well, before letting the cat in the room. My husband has an alternating-pressure mattress overlay to prevent bedsores (he’s quadriplegic) and we’ve had to protect it from our cat, who loves the purr of the motor and cuddling with him.

      Trimming the cat’s front claws helps too. Not too short, just the needle-sharp tips.

    • @[email protected]
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      I’m looking into it using data from my instance to check it isn’t an abuse issue.

      What I know so far:

      1. It is a lemmy.world user.
      2. That user has downvoted 548 comments, and upvoted 18. Downvoted 557 posts and upvoted 25.
      3. Timing: the downvoting has been going on for some time, it isn’t a new thing. 71 downvoted comments since 2024-06-01T00:00:00Z, 212 since the start of May (out of 548).
      4. The user has two comments ever, and no posts. One comment, on a thread about the actions of a right-wing American politician, said “Click bait lemmy for sure”. This could imply the downvotes are legitimate and coming from having an impossibly high standard for what is considered quality here, or perhaps they are related to political grudges. I’m going to look further for patterns in the downvotes. I think a bot could have done far more downvotes - so it could just be a human.
      • @Hobo
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        Also could be someone that responds to negative posts/reactions more and just lurks. I used to be that way in early days of reddit. Most of my votes were downvotes with very few upvotes given out. As I got a bit older I kind if quit giving much of a shit, and now I seek out positive posts instead of looking for negative shit all the time.

        Either way votes are even more futile on lemmy. They barely have any impact on anything and it’s not like the threads here reach the thousands of comments where a relatively few votes would bury a comment. There’s also no karma so it’s even less impactful. I personally think it’s good that way but whatever. To each their own!

        • nickwitha_k (he/him)
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          Either way votes are even more futile on lemmy. They barely have any impact on anything and it’s not like the threads here reach the thousands of comments where a relatively few votes would bury a comment. There’s also no karma so it’s even less impactful. I personally think it’s good that way but whatever. To each their own!

          One of my favorite things about Lemmy. I love that the fake internet points have no real impact and karma farming is not incentivized. On Reddit and SO, it was a good idea to try to give something to judge authenticity on but, like everything else, people found ways to game it for nefarious purposes. Overall, I think the experiment showed that karma points do more harm than good.

      • Tlaloc_Temporal
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        So actual hunan downvote bots do exists. I’ve always wondered but never had the opportunity to check.

  • nifty
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    Aw you’re both looking so comfy, sweet!

  • @enbyecho
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    How did you get my cat?

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    I’m going to need to ones where this was…

    Kyra sounds lovely.

    • @AchtungDrempelsOP
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      Know where this was?

      At “camping des thermes” in bagnères-de-luchon, france.

      • FuglyDuck
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        well. it’s now on the list of places I want to visit!

  • @tsonfeir
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    If it doesn’t belong to someone close by, and it doesn’t have a collar, you should help it find a home.

    Stray cats are hard on the environment. They are an invasive species.

      • @tsonfeir
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        Did the camp site tell you this?

          • @tsonfeir
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            What is it that you think I am “arguing?”

              • @tsonfeir
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                Why would I assume the cat with the collar was not lost or far from home? The right thing to do is ask around—which is what they did.

                There’s no argument here. Don’t make one, my Boss Dude.