Reposting a question I saw on reddit like a decade ago. My favorite answer I read was, “I’d take my 100 dogs home and live like a king.”
Personally, I have two cats, Sansa and Shere Khan. For both, I could significantly narrow down the options by seeing which cats meowed at me the most. (I swear I didn’t teach them to yell, but here we are.) For both, I could bring in a dog to discern which cats weren’t scared of dogs. For Sansa, I could wait until dinnertime and put down some wet food, then see who hems and haws about eating it despite having screamed for it. That might not be enough to get it down to just one each, but oh well. I could use 5 or 10 more cats.
Well, I have a very specific play routine I do with my cat almost every day that no imposter could emulate. I’ll point at her and exclaim, “YOU!!! I know what you’ve done!” and she’ll take off running for her life and I’ll chase after her. When I finally catch her, I ball my hand into a fist and shove it in her belly and she gives me rabbit kicks and sassy chomps.
my cat has a dedicated overstimulated corner on my desk where she goes if I’m annoying her too much but still wants attention, and I imagine that’s not pretty common. She also stares at the wall.
I haven’t got any pets now, but for the last pet I had, it would’ve been easy. I mentioned in another comment on here recently that she used to attack/eat dandelions.
I could’ve held up a fluffy, white dandelion and waited to see which pup came over to chomp it.
I dunno, statistically speaking, there’s gotta be a few more dandelion eaters in that group of 100
Kika: raise the palm of my hand threateningly, and start saying things like “nojenta” (disgusting), “jaguara” (sly), “cachaceira” (drunkard), “chata” (boring) etc. Most cats will go away. Kika will however come closer and turn her butt towards me, as if saying “slap it”.
Siegfrieda: start speaking in German. No, seriously. She actually identifies when I’m speaking in Portuguese or in German, and if it’s the later she immediately thinks it’s something with her. Good luck finding 99 cats with a bent mouth and a protruding fang, though.
How identical are we talking? Moles all the same place?
Easy - I wouldn’t. Especially since it would just be an empty room.
I would bring my bed into the room and turn on the floor fan.
awww
My cockatiel is the only one in this hypothetical flock that would scream my name, when any nearby human gets into an argument.
I honestly can’t think of anything better than being in a room with 100 Boxer dogs.
At the end, the sofa and blanket would have to be huge to fit us all on it, though.
My dog is the most cowardly dog I’ve ever met. All I would have to do is bring the toy he is afraid of. All the other dogs will either ignore it or want to play with it. But my dog will recognize the scary toy and cower. I got him that toy for Christmas and it was a really nice expensive toy. Same brand as all his other toys he loves. But for whatever reason, he’s scared of it. So I gave it to my parent’s dogs who think it’s just the best toy they’ve ever seen.
Reach down and try to pet them.
The one that dodges like Neo in the Matrix is mine.
Thought it was a possum at first lol
After her first vet trip.
Before the trip:
She has such a pretty face!
A blast from the past!
My boy cat has always given me very affectionate, but forceful, cuddles under my chin, especially when scared. Which reminds me that my old lady cat always buries her face in my elbow when she’s scared.
So, I’ll just have to pick up every cat and see who trusts me enough to use me as a blindfold lol
Just give them commands, that aren’t their name. Both my cat and dog do an assortment of tricks and are very food motivated.
Pick up the cats one by one and see which lets me pick them up without trying to attack me.
My cat scratched me a few times on Month 1, but is fine with me now 2+ years in, so if you mean it’s all identical clones except the memory, then judging by her initial behavior, only my cat would let me pick her up.
- Sit in a chair
- Leave room
- Return
- 2 cats will be in the chair
That’s pretty smart. If you fail, hey now you have two more cats