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Do cats experience existential dread? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by jaamesbaxterr@lemmy.world to c/cat@lemmy.world
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[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Of COURSE they do. Hell they feel existential dread towards things that aren't even there. Its just that their body language is so different from ours, that we don't usually recognize it.

Hell just staring into an unfamiliar cat's eyes can give it a case of the screaming jibblies.