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Cats are Healers (mander.xyz)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Petting a cat calms down & relieves stress.

There's a 50/50 chance that a cat will try to claw your eyes out if you rub their belly, but yes.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Survivorship bias: those who live through the encounter have lowered stress.😁

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The calming down and stress relief all happens once the petting session ends.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Knowing that you survived probably gives you a nice hormonal boost:-).

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Depends on the cat. There's some that will let you do just about anything and at most bat you with a paw, claws retracted. Then there's others that if you don't pay attention and pet them just a fraction wrong will take your arm off. Know your cat.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

This is true, I had both living with me at the same time for years.

Sort of still do but the bitey half is more playful now (different cats)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

it also depends on the human, some people just don't know how to interact with cats.
like bro you gotta make friends with them first, how tf would you feel if a guy just walked up to you and started reaching under your shirt?

The good old "crouch down, extend your hand, slow blink at the cat and periodically pointedly look away" generally works great.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Your stress will reduce to 0 if you die, so