They're built to kill. Crazy good reflexes and eyesight, amazing jump height, claws that grab hold of tree branches, feathers, and skin very nicely. There are a bunch of strays where I live, and they are murdering machines when they don't have a bowl of food plopped in front of them twice a day at their leisure.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

Also whenthry do. Cats like to play

[–] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And simultaneously can't find the piece of ham I dropped in front of their nose.

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

they cant see things that close to them, a certain distance away they will be able to see it

[–] InputZero@lemmy.ml 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The only reason why cats aren't hunting us down right now is because we're too big to be prey. I read somewhere a long time ago that domestic cats have one of the highest predation success rate in the mammalian class. Meaning once they choose to actually try to hunt something they usually get it.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

Yeah theres like two species that are better, and they're both also cats.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

To be fair they are good at choosing WHO to hunt

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

They're kind of the perfect predators, and birds need to land sometime.

Basically their only weak point, biologically, is their kidneys.

[–] yeah@feddit.uk 1 points 7 months ago

Birdbrains