• @[email protected]
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    The saying “dog days” is related to astronomy, and how a certain star appeared in the sky during the warmest months.

    edit: Maybe we can consider all Fridays cat days?
    It being Frigg/Freya’s day, and Freya is known for her 2 kitties.

    • @CM400
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      71 month ago

      IIRC, the “dog days” are when the “Dog Star” Sirius rises before the sun does.

      • @KintarianOP
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        11 month ago

        Alright, don’t get all sciencey 😛

        • @CM400
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          21 month ago

          Sciencedamnit, I won’t stand for this!

          • @KintarianOP
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            21 month ago

            Yeah, and get off my lawn! 😡

    • @[email protected]
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      51 month ago

      There are three feline modern constellations: Leo, Leo Minor, and Lynx. They’re adjacent, so they’re all visible around the same time.

      Leo’s heliacal rising from mid-northern latitudes is around early September. Alternatively, it is most easily visible in the evening in early May. So either early May or early September could be considered the “cat days”!

    • @KintarianOP
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      21 month ago

      That sounds like a good idea.

    • @essell
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      111 month ago

      Because you have two choices when choosing a family pet, Cat or Dog. Two choices makes them opposites.

      Obviously this is not all logical or rational but that’s fine. People are not all logical and rational.

      • @KintarianOP
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        11 month ago

        Why if you have an aardvark as a pet?

    • @[email protected]
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      Generally, thet hate each other. It’s not always the case, but if you put a random cat and a random dog together in the same room, it’s not going to work out well. Also…

      Dogs want to be your friend. Cats might consider letting you be their friend, sometimes, when they want something.

      Dogs might mourn for an owner that have passed. Cats would eat their dead owners.

      Dogs may bark and warn their owners of danger. Cats would sleep through any danger.

      • Lucy :3
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        1. It’s normal territorial behaviour, and afaik the signaling of their tails is the complete opposite, means they don’t understand each other. Also, have you put two random cats in the same room, maybe one both of which see it as their home?

        2. Dogs just accept you into their pack. Ideally as the leader. Doesn’t mean they will, and many dogs won’t see you as superior. So they won’t be friendly if you act up. Cats just accept you in their territory. Because you provide food, hopefully. They may not accept other people in their territory.

        3. Dogs do that too.

        4. Cats wouldn’t sleep through, otherwise they wouldn’t have survived till now, but how would you hear a soft meow in your sleep? Our cat slept in our bed, wherever she wanted, and we noticed when she got up.

  • NONE
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    101 month ago

    Every day is Cat days if you’re lazy enough.

  • @BilliamBoberts
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    51 month ago

    What do you mean? Caturday is every week between Friday and Sunday.

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    There are like 3 cat days in the year, look it up.

    • @jimmydoreisalefty
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      31 month ago

      TIL[1]


      Too much to post text of all months.

      Here are the ones just for September:

      1. Month Long Events
      • Happy Cat Month: Founded by the CATalyst Council
      • National Pet Insurance Month
      1. Week Long Events
      • Third Week in September: Adopt-a-Less-Adoptable-Pet Week
      1. September Cat Holidays
      • September 1: Ginger Cat Appreciation Day
      • September 13: Pet Birth Defect Awareness Day
      • Second Sunday of September: National Pet Memorial Day
      • Third Thursday of September: Remember Me Thursday® (an international social media awareness day that brings attention to the millions of adoptable pets waiting in shelters and remembers those pets who never got a second chance.[2]

      1. [1] https://thatsmeow.com/cat-day/ ↩︎

      2. [2] https://iheartcats.com/annual-cat-holidays/ ↩︎

      • @KintarianOP
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        21 month ago

        Nice, never seen that before

  • @Sam_Bass
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    21 month ago

    Because cats are night critters

  • @Sanctus
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    21 month ago

    Kintarian has never had a cat night before.

      • @Sanctus
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        21 month ago

        Its like that, but at night and any weekday.