Get a new one soon, there are countless of them in need of someone taking care!

I'm pretty sure he in that moment groked that I can control the movement of the character on the screen with the keyboard.

Also we've got a cat that watches Netflix with us. Sits somewhere with his gaze glued to the screen.

I highly recommend anyone to read about cat body language and how to behave to not irritate them. Cats turn into assholes when people around don't understand the cues they give. Eventually they stop giving cues and just go away or are aggressive. It's best to compare how cats in a cat cafe behave compared to home cats of people that know how they behave.

Also apparently they’ll attack whats in our hands as they think they’re helping us hunt.

They really are great. I was lucky to have a cat part of my life for 2 months shy of 20 years. I learned a lot from him and still miss him absolutely every day. He knew many human words - would come running and even let us hold him up to swat at whatever bug was flying around, if needed.

But even if adopting is very nice - you get a cat for free and help the poor animal, me and my wife wanted a maine coon for a long time, so we bought one.

Together with us for two years. And he's like a dog - plays fetch, and when you call his name, he comes to you. I have deep-ish voice, and he certainly hears me and understands words like his name, "negalima" (can't do that/not allowed in lithuanian), and he certainly knows the word "skanėstas" (treat). He's so unbelievably friendly, anytime I tap on my lap when I'm sitting, if he sees that - he comes and curls on lap instantly.

He's also very gentle. I was surprised - when playing, he very very rarely bites bare hand. All cats that I know have no problems biting and clawing your bare hand when playing. Funny when friends come over - oh my god, he looks dangerous - big and has this evil look. Gentle giant indeed.

Maine coons are great.

http://www.lsu.edu/deafness/HearingRange.html

Cat sensitivity is a good 6 dB more sensitive so even if they're peakier in treble than humans, they still hear human males from further away than humans can hear them. Somewhat intuitively this makes sense, lots of human powered evolution to make dogs work well with males would force excellent hearing of male voices.

Also you can run a reasonably intelligible for all voices telephone service off 300 to 4000 hz for a century or so, so no point debating 50 hz cutoff vs 75 hz or whatever, its vastly wider band than telco standards either way. Something kids under 30 will never experience is before digital vocoders and high bit error rate cell phones, telco voice service was somewhat hi-fidelity almost AM radio sound quality. Maybe someday voice communication will be that high quality again.

Cats of course are very intelligent and can train humans to do all kinds of stuff that is likely very amusing to cats, as per the anecdotes of them training their humans to perform in singsong voices and whatever.

1: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michel_de_Montaigne#Book_II

Not unlike dogs. My girlfriend is a pet behaviourist, but sees mostly dogs. And she says that one of the hardest problems is getting the male owners to engage with their dogs in a higher-pitched, fun and excited voice.

Just because they can hear you, doesn't mean they choose to respond. :)

I have not developed a single line of code without a cat by my side for 11 years now. While they occasionally walk all over my keyboard, they are more effective than the Apple Watch at getting me to stand up, walk around, and interact with the world. Cats are truly great; their antics definitely spur engineering creativity.

Just reading the article, you can tell what a pillar of love he was for everyone at Adafruit. I'm sitting here crying for a cat I never met, because I can feel the love for him bleeding through my screen. He was a hell of a guy, and a hell of a friend to everyone he knew.

If we can give a Britsh navy cat (Simon) a medal in recognition for his service, then I say we can also respect and give tribute to Mosfet as a great developer and hacker, in his own cat way.

Similarly unconfirmed reports from twitter that the Black Panther movie has emptied shelters of all of their black cats. I can believe that pretty easily.

Hey! :p

It varies a lot. Orange cats are usually male which could make a difference. My handle is for my favorite cat when I was growing up, who liked me because I'd sneak food to him at the dinner table.

Trouble disappeared never to be seen again. And within a month the monitor stopped working.

An animal can teach a child about unconditional love, in a way nothing else really can. And about loss. And really, life itself.

my 1st cat was killed by neighbor's dog when I was 4 years old

life never was the same since then