Cats and dogs and many other mammals can literally smell your stress, tension and fear. Your cortisol, more or less.
If you are actually calm, actually centered, actually cool… theyre much more likely to view you favorably.
If a pet likes a not-member-of-the-household stranger more than other people, thats likely because you the stranger are more relaxed than those other people generally are.
Visited a friend not long ago and they tried to prepare me for the dog to hate me.
“Don’t take it personally. He’s like that with everyone. He’ll warm up to you eventually.”
Me and this dog were immediately friends as soon as I walked through the door. Within 30 minutes, he was chilling in my lap and soaking up the attention. Within an hour, he was laying next to me on the couch and partially resting his head on the cat which was so unheard of that my friend had to take a picture because they said their partner would never believe it. Apparently the dog got along with the cats like… well like cats and dogs, but my presence got them to all chill out and just hang on the couch. I absolutely felt like this pic.
My ex said I’m a Disney Princess when it comes to animals. Their dog and cats love me, stray cats hang out in my backyard, current partners cat sleeps on me every night. Heck, I caught the neighbor’s cat sneaking into my garage this week!
I used to have two rats, a cat, and a dog and they’d all sleep on me at night.
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I was at someone’s house and visitors came in with a Bernese mountain dog. I was warned beforehand that he really didn’t like men. I just thought ‘that’s ok, we’ll see’. Big pupper went around sniffing everyone, then doubled back straight to me to sit in my lap. As I sat on the ground, pretty much all I could was just, DOG. Giant. Dog. Friend of mine said ‘welp, guess you’re not a man’
Joke’s on him I’m nonbinary now lmfao
Pupper knew all along. Good dog. Thanks for transing me.
I had this happen to one of my dogs. I went to the shelter and picked her out to go walk and see if we vibed. I was warned she doesn’t like men and growled/snipped at the workers. She was the chilliest dog from the start, I was picking her up and holding her when I went back to the front desk. They said, alright I guess she’s meant for you.
Even with my 2nd pup, when we went to go get her, I sat on the ground waiting for her to be let loose and she immediately ran right to me and sat in my lap. I think Ace Ventura might be an uncle.
Like when you go to a concert and the band says that <your city> has the best audience.
I saw Richie Kotzen last year and after the last song before the encore, he said “let’s pretend I went backstage and got out again”, then he proceeded to perform the encore.
It used to make sense. They do a whole high energy show, then need to take a leak or have some water/cocaine before they do the big outro that makes everyone happy.
Then some artists started getting stupid about it, and its become more a meme than a logistics reality.
Nobody tell OP
Tell OP what?
Owners lie to make you feel special
My cat likes my one friend, and mother who is quiet, and is quiet. My other friend, father, and everyone else who has ever entered my apartment scares him. They actually have to be quiet and calm for him to come out for them.
What’s this image from?
Excuse the reddit link.
Likely source: January 2009 edition of Intelligence in Lifestyle magazine
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMatpatEffect/comments/1mturml/arnold_schwarzenegger_enjoying_nature_is/Interesting. Thanks!
My best guess: Terminator
Likelihood of me being right: slim to none
And you are correct in being wrong: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/28556031
