Blooming Psycho’s New Strange World Today

This is an open response to an article that the manipulative behavior of cats proves them to be evil, according to one Dr. Karen McComb of the Centre for Mammal Vocal Communication Research at the University of Sussex. McComb states that stated that it appears that cats “learn to dramatically exaggerate it when it proves effective in generating a response from humans.”

Of course, young children do this too. Which means that all toddlers are demon spawn. Most parents would agree with this assertion at one time or another.

Evil implies malice. Manipulation may be self-serving, but it isn’t always malicious. The cat’s intent is not malicious. It simply wants to be cared for.

I’ve owned cats all my life. Almost all of them are aggravating at one time or another, and they are all needy. I’ve never known one that was actually evil. A couple of my cats have been fierce hunters, but their intent when catching their prey was not malicious, it was simple instinct.

Among my current four cats, I have Miss Demanding Butthead Pyromaniac Cat, who is far more pushy than evil. Then there is Mr. Alpha Male Cat, who simply believes that his demands supersede all others. Mr. Mellow Beta Male Cat can be annoying at times, demanding to be petted when I am in the middle of working on something, but he is very affectionate. And then I have the sweetest cat in the universe, who is the absolute antithesis of evil. She never even nips when being petted, which most cats do. She has rarely done anything to cause trouble. Like all cats, she manages to get her way almost all of the time. But really its a give and take situation with the beasts. Yes, they take, take, take. But they give a lot in return too.

I have seen far more evil behavior among humans than I have ever seen in cats.

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