We're currently Cat-Sitting for family members, this is Nami! She barks little meows like a dog, and absolutely loves staring out the window all day. :)

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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

One time I heard a duck in the kitchen. Quacking up a storm. Quack quack quack quack quack.

This was quite startling, since I don't have a pet duck, and there's no reason a duck should be in my home.

So I go into the kitchen, and I see no duck. The quacking stopped once I started walking to the kitchen. What I DO see is my sweet little cat. Just staring up at me from the midfle of the kitchen, like "S'up?"

I start looking in cabinets, and closets, inside the oven, behind the fridge. There was no duck. There never was a duck. I eventually begrudgingly accepted that was my cat making duck noises. She hadn't done that in the previous 6 years, and never did it again the rest of her life. And she never had any concept that her making duck noises was weird.

I even checked the windows to see if maybe the duck was outside, the windows were closed. There WAS NO DUCK.

It's been over 20 years. It still messes with me, that there never was any duck. That it was my cat the whole time. She was a sweet cat, who loved everybody.......but I'll never be 100% sure there isn't some duck conspiracy I know nothing about.

But she was a sweet cat.

[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Adorable.

Can you pay the cat tax by providing an image of said cat? :)

We had a very special cat who did a lot of chirping and trilling, and at night in the summer we'd keep the back door open with the glass screen door shut, and all sorts of animals could come by and she'd watch them and make various excited noises to let me know when animals were around.

Possums, raccoons, other cats, groundhogs, they all brought excited trills to let me know we had a nocturnal visitor.

One night she was making agitated sounds, but before I got there to see what it was, she made a clear as day "uh-oh" sound, but with a meow. I hurried over to see a fox staring down through the glass at her, while she stared back nervously. Never heard the "uh-oh" before or after except that night.

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