Reposting a question I saw on reddit like a decade ago. My favorite answer I read was, “I’d take my 100 dogs home and live like a king.”
Personally, I have two cats, Sansa and Shere Khan. For both, I could significantly narrow down the options by seeing which cats meowed at me the most. (I swear I didn’t teach them to yell, but here we are.) For both, I could bring in a dog to discern which cats weren’t scared of dogs. For Sansa, I could wait until dinnertime and put down some wet food, then see who hems and haws about eating it despite having screamed for it. That might not be enough to get it down to just one each, but oh well. I could use 5 or 10 more cats.
Well, I have a very specific play routine I do with my cat almost every day that no imposter could emulate. I’ll point at her and exclaim, “YOU!!! I know what you’ve done!” and she’ll take off running for her life and I’ll chase after her. When I finally catch her, I ball my hand into a fist and shove it in her belly and she gives me rabbit kicks and sassy chomps.
my cat has a dedicated overstimulated corner on my desk where she goes if I’m annoying her too much but still wants attention, and I imagine that’s not pretty common. She also stares at the wall.
I would bring my bed into the room and turn on the floor fan.
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I haven’t got any pets now, but for the last pet I had, it would’ve been easy. I mentioned in another comment on here recently that she used to attack/eat dandelions.
I could’ve held up a fluffy, white dandelion and waited to see which pup came over to chomp it.
I dunno, statistically speaking, there’s gotta be a few more dandelion eaters in that group of 100
Kika: raise the palm of my hand threateningly, and start saying things like “nojenta” (disgusting), “jaguara” (sly), “cachaceira” (drunkard), “chata” (boring) etc. Most cats will go away. Kika will however come closer and turn her butt towards me, as if saying “slap it”.
Siegfrieda: start speaking in German. No, seriously. She actually identifies when I’m speaking in Portuguese or in German, and if it’s the later she immediately thinks it’s something with her. Good luck finding 99 cats with a bent mouth and a protruding fang, though.
There’s 99 other dogs in the room. The antisocial thing will be glued to my leg 😆
My cockatiel is the only one in this hypothetical flock that would scream my name, when any nearby human gets into an argument.
Easy - I wouldn’t. Especially since it would just be an empty room.
Depends which one, escorting me around, flopping over and not leaving til I’ve scratched the shit out of him, or mithering for food would be solid indicators though.
I honestly can’t think of anything better than being in a room with 100 Boxer dogs.
At the end, the sofa and blanket would have to be huge to fit us all on it, though.
I mean the one that follows me the most.
My dog is missing an ear, so that would make her stand out pretty easily. If the rest of the dogs were also missing an ear, I’d look for the one that was trying to play with the rest of them. Calling her name wouldn’t do any good anyways, since she would be way too distracted by the 99 other dogs.
Lie down and take out my phone. The two cats who immediately get between my face and my phone are mine, as are my 198 new cats.
Oh, it’s easy. Mine is the one cat who is picking constant fights with all the other cats. For the amount of love and affection this guy has for human, he has the identical in size hatered for other cats, especially if they look like him
I would go to bed and just from the duvet rustling notice which cat comes running to be the little spoon.
Or I would sit with some yummy human food (like butter) and see which one will stop sniffing at it when I tell them to leave it, and instead go sit patiently at their own place waiting for their taste of the treat (cats aren’t known for their patience, but we have developed this ritual together… next step is utilising the same command when it’s time for their food and see if I can stop that darn yowling).
