Scooter going through it.
Furball ennui
Outside of the occasional startle, no. The cat idle routine is very low level, not much going on there at all.
~murder murder murder murder murder murder rub face on thing murder murder murder~
I’d say no, knowledge that we will some day die is unique to humans.
They certainly experience ennui though.
Now I wonder about elephants given that they have funerals and mourn their dead.
Same with crows.
We don’t know that.
Of COURSE they do. Hell they feel existential dread towards things that aren’t even there. Its just that their body language is so different from ours, that we don’t usually recognize it.
Hell just staring into an unfamiliar cat’s eyes can give it a case of the screaming jibblies.
I think my neighbours cat experiences existential dread if she hasn’t eaten in 5 nanoseconds…
Since they are the land spirit of dread I don’t think they can.
Yes I think, certainly every single time I move some furniture.
No. But they do wonder if they should buy a boat.
“It’s so weird. I shit in the box, and then the next day it’s just, gone. Where does it go? Who is stealing my poop?”
Oh they watch me clean it as they wait patiently to go poop in a fresh box.
I have two cats: they wait while watching me and then slightly ‘fight’ to go in the clean litter box first.
Cats can’t read Hegel nor Nietzsche, so I say no, they can’t experience existential dread.
It’s true, my cat only reads at a 4th-grade level.
No but they can experience existential fear (first time I took one of my cats on Holiday).
Sigh. It’s morning. Again.
every time they look at their food bowl, regardless of how full it is
Yes
