Anonymous #2 1d

This is the neurodivergent yikyak I think most things piss us off

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Anonymous #1 1d

makes sense

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Anonymous #2 1d

Because it’s top down thinking and somehow it’s socially acceptable.

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Anonymous OP 1d

#bottomupthinkersupremacy

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Anonymous #1 1d

The fact that neurodivergent people made l up that term is kind of a self-own.

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Anonymous #1 1d

This made me lol

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Anonymous OP 1d

can you tell me more about what that means to you?

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Anonymous #2 1d

What? The pervasiveness of top-down thinking? Essentially means it’s socially acceptable to jump to conclusions.

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Anonymous OP 1d

asking what breed the cat is pisses you off?

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Anonymous #2 1d

because cats you get from a rescue are either a domestic short hair or a domestic long hair. If the cat is a specific breed, you got it directly from a breeder or rescued it from someone who got it from the breeder AND has documents and pedigree to go with it. “Tabby” and “calico” are not breeds. Just because the cat looks like a siamese (a breed of cat) doesn’t mean that it is, but might share seemingly identical traits. It’s not complicated but people build cognitive dissonance around it.

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Anonymous #4 1d

The breed is C A T

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Anonymous OP 1d

Cat is not a breed get it together

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Anonymous #4 1d

Domestic shorthair and domestic long hair are breeds. It’s pretty obvious which is which. Also if you don’t know what breed it is, it didn’t come from a breeder so there’s already enough genetic variation to assume that it will have issues typically associated with regular old house cats. If you really want to know what breed the cat is, you get it tested, though the results will probably be underwhelming. “Tabby” and “Calico” are not breeds.

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Anonymous OP 1d

Domestic shorthair and long hair is not a breed. Short hair is the term for it haven’t SHORT HAIR but being unidentifiable. Long hair is a mix breed that is not purebred with a singular breed. Your point was asking what the breed is annoys you and now u are backing up saying how do u expect the breeder to know, get it tested. Obviously you get it tested. Ur right it won’t tell you tabby because it’s not a breed. It will give percentages on heritage just as a human dna test work. Do research

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Anonymous #1 1d

That’s my favorite question. Then next is how fluffy !

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Anonymous #4 1d

1. Me referring to domestic short/long hair was conceding the wrong part of the argument. I didn’t know what you accept as breeds, as we all know house cats today are the result of domestication over millennia. 2. In the original post, I described rescue cats. I am not referring to people who get their cat from breeders. Although if someone breeds cats and doesn’t know what they’re breeding (as you’re referencing) that is unethical and people shouldn’t buy cats from them.

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Anonymous #4 1d

3. If you do a genetic test on a rescue cat, there is a good chance the cat will have tiny percentages of many breeds or might be lumped into a category. 4. I have done research on this. I took a class in college where I studied certain allele frequencies in the local rescue cat population which required me to go into the journals.

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Anonymous OP 1d

When u find a stray or recuse, u have to take it to the clinic, for shots, chips, records, and a psychical. It’s inclined that u do a genetic test, because while it could have picked up diseases and viruses. Many breeds are predestined to disorders genetically, like heart or kidney failure. Cats are one of the few animals who will refuse to tell u if they are in pain, so check ups are vital for the health of ur animal. No need to “get pissed off” when someone ask what breed it is.

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Anonymous #4 1d

5. It is unnecessary to question my integrity. However, your claim about a long hair cat being mixed with a singular breed is not robust after finding evidence to the contrary which is not able to be shared because of yik yaks format.

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Anonymous #4 1d

Perhaps “asking” limits it to a general case of asking strangers on the internet than just doing a routine test.

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Anonymous #6 1d

These are the types of people this post is about.

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Anonymous #6 1d

cat tax. please excuse his fatness, we're working on it 😭

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Anonymous #6 1d

Sooo cute!!

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Anonymous #6 1d

Baby.

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Anonymous OP 1d

he's only three, here's him as a baby before his calorie addiction and prescription weight loss food.

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Anonymous #6 1d

Lol the standard issue giving the craziest side eye.

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Anonymous #6 1d

My mom thinks this is a snowshoe, but we got it from a rescue and the mother had the calico pattern. It’s literally colorpoints and white spotting.

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Anonymous OP 1d

this was the first ever time he allowed cuddles from baby meatball 😭 they love each other now tho

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Anonymous OP 1d

The litter mates were all sorts of patterns too.

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Anonymous #6 1d

on the clean laundry too ofc

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Anonymous #6 1d

The SAS!!!!

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Anonymous OP 1d

awww i love. yeah my meatball had an identical sister, a tuxedo brother, and a gray sister 😭 definitely just an assortment

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Anonymous #6 1d

Which is why she is so cool. But she should literally stop calling her a snowshoe. We do love the booties tho

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Anonymous OP 4h

What are you even talking about? Cat breeds are real, and very important for understanding your cat and their health

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Anonymous #9 3h

Yeah but most cats (and dogs tbh) that you get rescued are like. Mutts. Like it might have aesthetic features of a breed but it’s not that breed it’s just a cat.

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Just because you rescued, and don’t have the papers from a breeder doesn’t mean the cat isn’t that breed 💀 Certain breeds have very specific health needs that are important to know when you’re adopting

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Anonymous #9 3h

I never argued that vets shouldn’t DNA test the cats. Once again, that is a misrepresentation of my argument and I have no interest in continuing dialogue with you.

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Anonymous #8 3h

Even if the cat you rescue is a mutt, for practical reasons they can still get placed into the category of a specific breed, or a mix of specific breeds depending on the features they have. While not true to the black and white definition of a breed, these categories are still very important information for vets and owners who are caring for these cats. Ignoring the categories that cats fall into is very black and white thinking, which I understand, but in the real world it’s just unhelpful.

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This is your first response to me, and you haven’t even explained what I’m misunderstanding here?

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“cats you get from a rescue are either a domestic short hair or a domestic long hair.” This is not even true. “If the cat is a specific breed, you got it directly from a breeder or rescued it from someone who got it from the breeder AND has documents and pedigree to go with it.” is incredibly black and white thinking. In the real world, it is important for owners and vets to categorize the cats that fit into these groups, so they can receive proper treatment and care.

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If you’re going by very strict definition of a breed, sure? However, having a paper does not change the fact that a Sphynx cat is a Sphynx cat, nor does it change the fact that a mixed cat which is mostly Sphynx still, in practical use, does fall into the same category as a Sphynx cat. In real life, nobody who has a cat that looks like this, but does not have papers, is going to place them in the same category as a cat with short grey hair and stubby legs.

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Anonymous #9 3h

I think they’re talking broadly about the way someone might see a gray cat and convince themselves they have a Russian blue or the way people assign personality types to fur patterns and such when most of the time it’s something that applies to most cats and is ultimately a meaningless distinction. Like, not DNA checking for medical issues, not ignoring obvious breeds like a sphinx but like, the way people sometimes seem to just, want their cat to be something when it’s just a cat.

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Anonymous #8 3h

They specifically stated both that “cats you get from a rescue are either a domestic shorthair or a domestic longhair” and that without getting the cat from a breeder, rescuing it from someone who got it from a breeder and/or having the documents and pedigree, it isn’t a specific breed. Did they not mean that? My argument is that people applying these breeds to cats that have these clear features makes sense in real life, and their comments appeared to contradict that argument

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Anonymous #9 3h

you're fighting a fight that has literally does not matter. what are you going to get if you "win"? a cookie? nobody cares.

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Anonymous OP 3h

It feels like we haven’t even had a dialogue though? Your only comments to me are just “I have no interest in continuing dialogue with you” despite us never having dialogue, and you saying that I’m misrepresenting your argument (which was not done purposely, if true). I genuinely do not know how I have misinterpreted you, because I’m going off direct quotes from your comments

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Anonymous #6 3h

I don’t understand what you’re saying? I’m not fighting, I’m trying to talk with people?

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Anonymous #6 3h

The OP brought up an idea, and I disagreed. Am I not allowed to do that, and/or start a conversation about why? I truly don’t understand your point here.

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Anonymous #9 2h

seeing as they deleted all their responses and stopped responding all together, they clearly don't want to talk to you. now is when you let it go. if you don't let it go and continue to respond in here, that's when we're pushing into harassment.

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