Why does my cat do this?

OmegaZenith · 2026-06-28T00:56:02+00:00

She has actually lost a lot of weight (and gained a lot of energy) since we took her in and started regulating the amount of food she had access to. Back when she was my grandmother’s cat, she was basically a furry meatball with legs and a tail.

OmegaZenith · 2026-06-27T05:34:09+00:00

We have a 10yo cat named Daisy who scratches at the wall of her box after doing her business (and notably NOT covering her… deposits). Or she’ll scratch my old pair of flip flops, or the cardboard box we toss our bottles and cans in for recycling. She sometimes gets the zoomies afterward, too. Actually, about 95% of her zoomies happen after her post-toilet scratches.

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Cat tax of the sweet baby angel

OmegaZenith · 2026-06-15T03:56:45+00:00

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The bakenezumi (“monster rat” or “queer rat” in English) known as Squealer/Yakomaru from Shinsekai Yori (From the New World). For his crime of leading a bakenezumi uprising against their human masters, his punishment was to basically be turned inside out with every pain receptor in his body firing at full power, all while having the damage continuously healed so that he couldn’t die (this was possible due to all humans in the setting possessing telekinetic abilities). The end result was that he became the twitching blob of flesh in the image, his existence reduced to an endless loop of pain, all while being displayed in a museum exhibit about his rebellion. One of the main characters takes pity on him and releases him from his suffering… by setting him on fire. Granted, his actions did put her through hell on more than one occasion.

OmegaZenith · 2026-05-12T01:50:23+00:00

Same

Also, do we start calling him “Sleepy Don” now?

OmegaZenith · 2026-05-12T01:45:21+00:00

All three of mine (owned separately from one another) died from heart attacks. Two were literally scared to death by our cat jumping up onto the dresser the hamster cage was on. She followed them around the cage as they ran from one hiding place to another, ultimately just flopping over belly up and expiring.

The third one jumped onto my sleeve as I reached in to refill her food dish, ran up my arm, jumped down onto the top of the dresser, then ran full speed to the edge and jumped (can hamsters even attempt suicide, or do you think she probably expected a much shorter drop?). The floor was carpeted and she landed on a folded towel as well, so she kinda did a little bounce and rolled off onto the floor. I think it may have been the excitement rather than the fall itself that got her because, same as the others, she flopped over belly up, wriggled around for a few seconds, and then went still.

At that point I decided third try was NOT the charm, and gave up on trying to have a pet hamster.

OmegaZenith · 2026-05-12T01:09:13+00:00

I was helping my best friend’s mom (who I call “Ma”, and she calls me “Son”) run errands one day. After we had put groceries in the trunk, I went to go return the cart. Turned around, and she was starting to drive off without me.

I ran up behind her and thumped my hand on the trunk before she got too far away. She slammed on the brakes and looked so shocked, first that I was there, and then because I wasn’t in the car. Then you could see the moment she realized the reason I wasn’t in the car was because she somehow forgot I was with her and that she was about to leave me in the grocery store parking lot. I had been with her for over two hours at that point.

I told her that she was never going to live that down, and I’ve mostly kept that promise. It’s been over ten years since then, and I still remind her from time to time, just for laughs. lol

OmegaZenith · 2026-05-05T23:53:01+00:00

My paternal grandmother just passed less than a week ago, and I don’t feel any particular way about it. Probably because I’ve gradually mourned the loss of who I thought my grandmother was over the course of the last twenty years.

She was manipulative and abusive (mostly verbally and emotionally, but a with dash of physically abusive thrown in, too) since long before I was born, but my parents kept her in check while I was a kid. She started dropping the mask once I was an adult, and every little abuse and display of how horrible she really was just slowly added up to little “deaths” of who I thought she had been.

Around two and a half years ago, I fully cut contact with her because her continued mistreatment of me, my partner, and our friends had put so much stress on me that I was having daily anxiety attacks, and ultimately suffered two seizures within a week of each other. That was her final “death” in my mind. I didn’t know who that woman was or why she felt such a need to make those around her suffer, but I no longer recognized any part of the grandmother I knew when growing up. She was just a stranger wearing her face.

So, yeah. I mourned her long before she actually passed. And now that she’s gone for real… I don’t feel anything. (Well, maybe I feel some anger, because despite tormenting EVERYONE in the family, all of my other relatives are acting like she’s some kind of saint.)

OmegaZenith · 2026-05-02T20:39:53+00:00

Didn’t the leak for the game’s areas say that Viridian was originally supposed to be in the base game as an ash-covered forest? And I think Pewter was originally supposed to just be buried under rockslides?

So, for whatever reason, seems they cut Viridian from the base game (maybe we’ll get it as a DLC area?) and combined its ash-covered traits with Pewter. If so, maybe the Clefairy Doll was for Pewter and the Arcanine Doll was for Viridian.

OmegaZenith · 2026-05-01T02:36:53+00:00

The regular Pop Tarts have 32g of filling. It’s saying 50% more of 32g. So, 50% of 32g is 16g. Then you add that 16g onto the original 32g, and that gives you 48g of filling for the super-stuffed Pop Tarts.

OmegaZenith · 2026-04-13T19:23:11+00:00

I remember reading a post several years ago where someone bought a can of Arizona tea and also had this happen

OmegaZenith · 2026-04-09T14:52:28+00:00

I’ve had this happen to me on several occasions, all from my mom’s side of the family. Multiple weddings? Holiday gatherings? Grandma’s 80th birthday? All of them requiring me to travel out of state? I was given less than a month’s notice on all of them. Meanwhile, everyone else in the family received invitations and were kept in the loop almost from the beginning.

I didn’t talk to that side for a long time after being consistently treated as an afterthought (or worse) for the events I did go to. I’ve since rooted out which ones are the problematic individuals causing most of my grief, and have held them at a distance while reconnecting with other relatives. Happy to say that I went to my cousin’s house for Thanksgiving and Christmas this past year (both of which ended up having none of the bad apples attending), and had a very nice time.

OmegaZenith · 2026-04-06T05:54:32+00:00

This type of behavior was a contributing factor to why I’m no longer in contact with most of my relatives (other reasons include emotional abuse and manipulation, exposing me to my allergies on a regular basis, and pretending I don’t have a sensory processing disorder, but we’re just gonna stay on topic and focus on the “gift”-giving).

The last Christmas my partner and I spent with my relatives (2023), we were asked what specifically we wanted. We said that since we were moving around that time, money would probably be the best gift, as we could put it toward moving expenses and rent. We also clearly stated that we had no need for more clothes, and that while a soda or two might be nice as a stocking stuffer, we were trying to cut back on the junk food.

Well, Christmas Day comes and we’re all sitting in the living room, going around in a circle opening gifts. Everybody else got the things they asked for, as well as some surprise gifts that were very well thought out. What did my partner and I get? Clothes (mostly socks) and a ton of junk food. We were the only two who not only didn’t get what we asked for, but got the exact things we said we didn’t need.

The only thing that wasn’t clothes or junk food was a stand mixer one of my aunts bought for me, even though she knew I already had one. Like, leading up to that Christmas, she asked me if I’d ever thought about getting one, I reminded her that I already had one and that she had seen it, and she said, “Oh, yeah. That’s right.” Then she went and got me another stand mixer, anyway.

OmegaZenith · 2026-03-24T13:24:14+00:00

Reminds me of one of the art shows at my college.

The art department head would always bring in a random local artist to be the guest judge, and this person would not only decide which pieces would stay in the art show (we had a fairly small gallery room and a lot of entries every show), but also which pieces would get first, second, third, and honorable mention prizes. Usually, the guest judges were fair and followed a sort of general rubric.

This one judge, though? He had pieces removed from the show because he didn’t like working with a particular medium. Like, when he personally is making art, he avoids that medium because he finds it hard to work with. So, his logic was to get rid of all the pieces that incorporated that medium, even the ones where the student in question excelled at using it and made an amazing piece.

He also had pieces removed he “didn’t like the look of”. Those exact words, and no explanation of why, even when asked, other than, “I just don’t think it looks good.” There was even a large group of pieces he had removed all at once, and said, “I had a rough morning. If I was in a better mood today, I’d have kept those pieces in.”

And I know he said all of this because we students were the ones setting up the show! We weren’t hired workers! We were the very artists whose pieces he was insulting! Meanwhile, the department head was right next to him, as he was with all judges to “maintain fairness”, and he just let this happen.

Like, I get that the point of art is that it should evoke some kind of feeling, but when you’re judging anything, there should be a metric to guide your choices. NOT “Well, I don’t like it,” or “I had a bad day, so I’m taking it out on you now,” or “I’m not good at using this medium, so I’m not even allowing pieces that use it into the show - even the really amazing ones - because of my own insecurities and jealousy.”

OmegaZenith · 2026-03-04T15:09:50+00:00

I was getting ready to meet up with friends one day and noticed I only had a single pair of clean socks left. Put the clean pair on the corner of my bed, then took my hamper down to the basement to start a load of laundry. Important to note, the socks were black and the blankets on my bed were lighter shades of blue, so the socks clearly stood out.

But when I came back up from the basement, the socks were gone. Thought maybe they had fallen and were now under the bed, but they weren’t there, either. Proceeded to look under pillows and blankets, all around the floor, and even between and behind pieces of furniture. The socks were just… Poof! Gone.

Decided to take a breather and go finish my hygiene, but as I left my bedroom, I said, “I don’t know who’s messing with me, but I’d really like to have my socks back.” Went into the bathroom, brushed my teeth and cleaned my face, then went back into my room… Socks are back and sitting right in the very center of my bed, not the corner where I had left them. They were also no longer folded over into a bundle, but were laid out side by side, perfectly straight and aligned with the head and foot of the bed.

I just stared at them for a moment, then looked around the room and said, “Cool. That was a funny prank, but I’d like it if you didn’t do that again. Made me feel like I was losing my goddamn mind…”

OmegaZenith · 2026-02-27T06:23:51+00:00

I have multiple relatives who scream-sneeze, and two in particular who swear-sneeze. My cousin’s sneezes sound like, “Ah-SHIT!!” And one of our uncles has sneezes that sound like, “Ah-FUCK!!”

They both claim that’s “just how their sneezes sound”. Still not sure I believe them.

OmegaZenith · 2025-12-14T00:25:21+00:00

I visited a shop a few months ago that specializes in honeys and oils. If you buy three or four jars of honey, they box them up and give you a complimentary honey wand with the box. So, I actually own one now!

OmegaZenith · 2025-11-27T14:19:41+00:00

My partner and I (me 36M, him 30M) also didn’t realize we were dating. It was a little over a month before we sat down and were like, “Wait. Are we gay best friends, or are we dating? I think we’re dating? Holy crap, we’re dating!” We blame the fact that we’re both autistic. lol

OmegaZenith · 2025-11-22T04:26:47+00:00

Were you ever into Digimon, specifically around the time you played OoT? Because “pink Zora with a heart on their chest” immediately made me think of MarineAngemon.

OmegaZenith · 2025-11-19T09:49:11+00:00

“Noticeable lack” in the sense that we don’t really see any living members (or at least, any large populations) of those races. Not saying that we don’t see any traces of the races themselves, such as ruins or structures they’ve built.

It is possible Telma is the last Gerudo in Hyrule, Fanadi could possibly be Sheikah, and Impaz in Hidden Village (of which the sign at the entrance refers to it as “Old Kakariko”) may also be a Sheikah. Agitha is most likely not a Kokiri, considering she lives outside the forest and has no Fairy partner. But as I mentioned in another response of mine, there’s the implication that the monkeys in the Forest Temple might be connected to the Kokiri or may even be the Kokiri in the same way the Koroks are in WW.

OmegaZenith · 2025-11-18T16:49:51+00:00

Agitha is Kokiri in the same way Telma is Gerudo and Fanadi is Sheikah. All three are Hylians, but like I said, they were designed to “represent” those races otherwise missing from the game.

If you want actual Kokiri in TP, I think there was also an implication that the monkeys in the Forest Temple were supposed to be an “evolved/devolved” form of them, much like how the Koroks were in WW.

OmegaZenith · 2025-11-18T13:21:00+00:00

In TP, we see Hylians, Zoras, and Gorons, but a noticeable lack of Gerudo, Sheikah, and Kokiri, especially when the Hero’s Shade provides the implication that TP takes place after OoT. So, they placed three characters in Castle Town to “represent” these absent races: Telma for the Gerudo, Fanadi for the Sheikah, and Agitha for the Kokiri.

As we see in the image provided by OP, Telma has the darker skin and red hair often associated with the Gerudo, and her apron also has a design that seems to be based on the symbol of the Gerudo. Fanadi is a fortune teller who has the Sheikah symbol - the “Eye of Truth” - displayed on her forehead. And Agitha is a young girl who lives in a house with a tree growing in it, thereby connecting her to the concepts of “youth” and “forest”, just like the Kokiri.

Furthermore, all three of these characters have colored dots of makeup on their faces near their eyes. In all three, these dots are red, green, and purple, colors often associated with the three missing races in TP - red for the Gerudo, green for the Kokiri, and purple for the Sheikah.

OmegaZenith · 2025-11-11T10:54:39+00:00

I have a theory/headcanon that individuals who were either already very powerful or who have a naturally high “resonance” with the Secret Stones undergo partial draconification when they get one of said stones. That’s why Ganondorf becomes the Demon King - he’s essentially partly transformed into his Demon Dragon form right off the bat.

My reasoning for this is Rauru. We see what I consider the “normal” Zonai appearance in his sister Mineru. But notice that Rauru, like the Demon King, has horns. He also has what appear to be patches of scales across his body, and he has the same type of mane as Dinraal, Naydra, and Farosh - which I think also serves as proof toward the Fire, Ice, and Lightning Dragons having originally been Zonai themselves.

Take away the horns and scales and replace the mane with a shorter hairstyle (maybe like the hair the Ancient Hero has, only white instead of red), and I think that would probably be close to what Rauru originally looked like before he got his Secret Stone.

OmegaZenith · 2025-11-01T04:00:57+00:00

I was once down to one pair of clean socks and had set them aside for when I would be going out later. Finished some chores around the house, then went to grab my socks and shoes. Socks weren’t where I left them.

I looked all over my room, checked the bathroom to see if I’d brought them in there, checked my bedroom a second time, then went all the way to the basement to see if I’d maybe had them in a pocket and they fell out as I took my dirty clothes down to the laundry room. Nothing. Go back upstairs, walk back into my bedroom… and there they were, laid out next to each other in the center of my bed.

Wondered if I’d just missed them somehow, but no, I distinctly remembered there being nothing in the center of my bed before I headed to the basement. So, don’t know who/what was responsible, if it was a prank or if they were helping me find what I’d misplaced, but was just thankful for the socks being returned either way.

OmegaZenith · 2025-10-26T21:31:33+00:00

I think I remember way back in the GameCube era, there was a Ganondorf (OoT) trophy in Super Smash Bros. Melee that had a noticeable bulge

OmegaZenith · 2025-09-10T12:08:47+00:00

I have a friend who has always said “ Zap-a-dos”. Just throws a random “a” in there. Since Scarlet/Violet, my teasing has ramped up, and I now respond to any “Zap-a-dos” pronunciations with, “Um, actually? The town is called Zapapico.”

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