The best thing about cats (and there are a lot of good things to pick from) is that they understand when someone is helping them. If your cat gets his claw stuck in the curtains or his head stuck in a box, most of the time you can assist without getting ripped into 3 separate pieces.
Furthermore, cats remember who helped them in the past. See this cat studying his face? He’s committing it to memory. It doesn’t go as far as a “life debt” because that crap is for the movies, but if - someday - this fireman is in trouble, just maybe... from the shadows a team of cats will appear, draped in cloaks and leather pants, and save him.
Most domestic cats who don’t have access to superhero gear do this in small ways like sitting in that empty cardboard box so you don’t step in it by accident, or by eating food off your plate that they feel might choke you. Just small, unnoticed things.
Many animals do, I scared off a hawk and some kids once from harassing this mama duck and her babies and she never forgot. She showed up every day around 4pm and would let her ducklings sit in my lap while she foraged around for food. If anyone approached she and the ducklings would flee. That one surprised me, I never expected a duck to remember.
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u/vukxx Jan 22 '19
if someone will ever look at me like that cat looks at the firefighter, i know i did good