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25 May 2006
I just stumbled across a website in which people post as their cats. Like, in first person about shedding.
Really. I mean, if monkeys can type up the works of Shakespeare, don't you think a cat could type up one measly post? And the posts are full of grammatical errors and typos!!
I would have no choice but to post things like this and worse:
"My human keeps playing with my butt. It is really annoying. He is always "look at da widdle kitty rosebud" and poking at it with one of my toys or something. I hiss and slap at him, but he just keeps messing with my arse. What can I do to make him stop?"
I dunno, I guess it's ok. These cats seem to be awfully obsessed with their humans, I mean, it's all they talk about, it's like they don't have lives of their own.
I think the catster threads bother me less because of the first-person thing and more because the cats are having a conversation in first person. It's one thing to post as your pet once, it's another to maintain that persona as you answer other people who are also posting as their pets... it's way too pomo for me, I think.
My cat has a MySpace page. I kind of want to update it one of these days when she's sitting on the keyboard.
(Let us never speak of this again.)
What really freaks me out is people who refer to themselves from their pet's point of view as "Mom." Did you give birth to that cat? I SURE HOPE NOT.
I don't think my cat views me as "mom." I think she views me as "The long-haired pink thing." My husband would be "The short haired pink-thing." Of course, in my cat's mind, the inside of the toilet bowl is a great place to sit, so who knows.
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