i love spock with cats just like everyone and i don’t know how much y’all know about cat body language but i felt this would be important to share
this cat is extremely happy (understandable), she’s slow blinking (sign that she’s content/comfortable) and even making biscuits a little bit (the way she clenched her paws like she’s kneading, another sign of comfort/that she trusts the person she’s with)
and i can’t find any other clips but you can tell the whole episode that the cat actor is just so excited to be there
anyways that wasn’t really important i just think it’s nice
Oh I'm intrigued by the avian dental stuff as someone who owns a bird! What do avians do to maintain their beaks to prevent that kind of overgrowth? Is it with minerals/chews like a regular bird does or is it a more deliberate/hands-on process?
Avians brux (grind their beak against itself) as a self-soothing reflex, which is most of what wears their beak down besides using it to manipulate objects. Filing their own beak down when it feels too long is a common hygiene practice, though, like trimming fingernails.
Lulu origin story: 5 years ago my moms coworker was in his yard and heard a kitten mewling for help. He found little Lulu alone and scared in this bush
She was timid and malnourished and didn’t really like to be touched. Knowing my mom was a very experienced cat owner, he offered her to us and mom accepted
She had to be dewormed and she ate like she was starving, purring loudly while she gobbled up her food
The thing about Lulu was that she didn’t like to be touched or pet…but she was still so friendly! She purred pretty much nonstop. She followed us around and showed genuine interest in everything we did. She got along with the other cats immediately, and has always just been an absolutely delightful little baby. She just….isn’t physically affectionate!
And it took years of very slow, careful effort for her to allow me to touch her. I figured out she was less shy about her back, and that she preferred scratches over pets, so gradually I would give her little scritches on her booty and after years of that, we worked our way up to SOMETIMES im allowed to pet her forehead
She’s 5 years old now. She still isn’t a big fan of being touched. But she does like to sit on plates. And I love her so much it’s unreal
percy working so hard to get nico to trust him after the bianca issue of it all and being antsy about not crossing nico’s boundaries and not being too touchy (especially after the crush reveal because he’s so worried about hurting nico’s feelings) and it’s so hard and it feels awkward but he cares so much about nico and he just wants to prove that
and then he’s visiting new rome to check in on annabeth during her university break and nico is just there hanging out casually with jason and jason slings an arm around his shoulders and nico laughs and leans into him and percy is just.
Please enjoy the sounds of our 13-year-old black cat, Pasha, this Halloween. ^_^ As you can see, she's an expert at biscuit-making, and sings while she works.