This might sound super silly but I‘m dead serious. I recently adopted two cats. They‘ve spend over a year together before I got them. One of then only has one eye. I noticed that the other one often keeps squiting her left eye. We‘ve been to the vet for a regular check-up a week ago and her eyes are perfectly fine.
Do you think she might be imitating the other one? I have no other explanation for this behaviour.
(Not asking for medical advice just wondering if my theory makes sense)
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Cats mirror a lot. I'm pretty sure your theory is correct. What a sweet girl, she clearly loves her sibling a lot.
Damn so my cats meowing long sentences to me, giving me talks, like I do him. Makes sense now.
Yeah - cats don't really meow like that to each other, just humans.
But he meows to the stray we (me and him) adopted. The same way. Almost like he's schooling him.
Or sharing the new kitty swear words! Whenever mine are at the Cattery they seem to come back with all manner of new dirty words!
I can imagine you getting mad at them and being like “get thee to a cattery!”
Sorry, you can blame my cat for that. When I first got my Orange boy, took him to the vet for vaccination and to be fixed. When I picked him up, the vet assistant made sure to tell me my cat was "very vocal."
The catnip is strong with this one. 🤔
Yeah my cat directly meows at my other cats. Pretty sure the fact that cats dont meow at each other is just a myth. Or maybe my cats are just smarter than most...... but I highly doubt that
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When it's sunny out I will call my cat over to the window so they know there's a sun patch to enjoy.
Today my cat was sitting in the window enjoying some rare winter rays, and kept yowling at me. I think she's doing me a solid and letting me know it's sunny, like I do for her 😂
If you listen carefully you might start to pick up what they’re telling you too!
He’s VERY likely learning/ trying to understand what you’re saying to him and there is a good chance he understands more than you give him credit for.
(Clearly he won’t understand everything and they can be quite contextual “you say this” in one room means X but then if you say the same thing in another room he no longer understands.)
Oh, they definitely signal and communicate a lot!!
By the time its verbal they're probably like, damnit you aren't listening!! 😂
They will sit certain places to communicate.
Or make different tones in their meow's telling what they want.
I've found in communicating with them that hand signals are huge.
I have a certain signal for when they are getting medicine. It's never a surprise then, they know It's coming and can't fight it. I show them their treat they know they'll get too. Then I give Kitty kisses with my eyes and let them know it'll be okay and I love them. They won't fight but They aren't happy either lol. Then I have a hand signal when we're done. And they don't jump away after either. They know to get their treat. And while enjoying their treat, I verbally reward them by saying how good they were and if they let me, I gently pet them.
I find it interesting how the cat didn't mirror but copied which eye to close. I would have assumed they mirrored.
The video of the baby cat trying to wash itself like the mama cat? So adorable.
Yes.
“Copy cat” is a thing for a reason. Cats are very social and copy other cats, or dogs or rabbits or occasionally humans.
Videos of cats copying their owner’s limps are hilarious
A family member of mine recently had a hip replacement so they obviously had a bit of a limp. Their cat started limping out of nowhere, took it to the vet, spent $80 to be told it's a sympathetic limp lol
I’m a klutz and I got a cat this year… it’s bound to happen sooner or later 😂
Bet your cat’s plotting to out-klutz you soon 😂
HE BETTER NOT 😨
Worse, he is planning on how to get under your feet and give you a limp
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Cat’s like, “that’s why you keep your whiskers, dummy! “
Just judging? Mine laugh at me. I genuinely hope they know I’m okay and not seriously hurt otherwise I’d think they didn’t love me! 😞
Catser Soze 😭
Give me the catnip you mother scratcher.
Aww how cute actually lol
This is beautiful information thank you
Toddlers all go through a phase where they will do that too. Every single one of my dads grandkids followed him around limping at least once.
My toddler mimicking me was hilarious! I grunt and groan a lot and grab my back saying “aish my back hurts” so he started doing it too. Even dod a few exercises with his dad and me.
All the people in this thread should go tell this to the mildy infuriating sub lol. There was a video of a toddler being weighed at the doctor and he sucks in his little baby tummy then looks at his feet.
People were outraged and called his parents abusive for giving a toddler an eating disorder.... Like no, one of his parents is pregnant or has a gut and he's seen them step on a scale. There wasn't even anything but his feet to look at, the weight was on the wall!! It was hilariously awful.
My son still copies the noises i make lol
Why is there no link to a video under this reply?
If we wait, there will be a subreddit
R/empawthetic or something sounds like a good name for it.
r/Copycats/
Oooo so that’s why my cat has gotten chubby. Hehe
I had back surgery 3 years ago. I occasionally limp when the pain gets bad. My cats copy my limp...
Wait omg maybe that’s why my cat keeps limping despite the vet finding nothing wrong 😭😭 she’s literally copying me
One of my cats throws his hairballs up into the bathroom trash can. He must have seen me a few times throwing up in there when hungover
My cat eats with his paws 😭
Stop that is SO cute
Mine ate with his paws and used the toilet. (He passed with FeLV, but he was the besssst.)
I’m so sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing about your Kitty friend <3 What was his name?
We of course need to see a video of this adorable behaviour IMMEDIATELY
Second this
One of mine pet herself with her own paws when she wants me to pet her
Just FYI, we had a cat that would do that. Bowl was too small and they hate stuff hitting their whiskers. Actually moved to frying pans of all things believe it or not. Good size for the cat and since they're heavy, they won't blow away if left outside.
Yes for sure, We feed him from plates !! Thank you for checking in, yeah he hates bowls.
Please record a video! That sounds so cute!
I do this thing with my cat where I'll grab the door frame and pop out at different heights. My cat really enjoyed it and even started doing it back to me. She'll randomly pop out holding the door frame before running off. I love it so much.
Stoooooopp!! You're making me want to have a cat again! I should get out of this sub lol.
I keep the cat treats in the fridge. One of my cats has the habit of running up to the fridge, propping up on it, and stretching out a paw really high when it was time to eat. So I'd slap his little toe beans and then give him his treats. Now I get a high five every day when it's time to eat.
I'd say get a cat, but Fiendish Dr. Meow has me a bit biased hahah.
If I do any time soon, I'll get an older rescue. I'm not in a good place in my life to commit to caring for a pet who I might still have in 20 years.
We had a cat in highschool that toilet trained himself just from watching us use the bathroom. I was amazed the first time he did it in front of me.
What grade?
Oh I meant when I was in highschool, oops! It was one of our family cats.
💀🤣
Saw a video of a cat that grew up with pitbulls and his stance was so wide like them. Was hilariousss
Yes! Was it this one?
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He looks like such a lil bad ass haha
The ears too 😂 then the dog in the back with sunglasses. I need full stories about this crew!
YESS. It wasnt a video it was totally just this pic. Thanks for finding this lmaoo
Ah so that's why my cat is a lazy sleepy skittish fat fuck with comfort eating problems.
Mine's really annoying and talks too much
My cat keeps ordering things online that he doesn't need.
Yup, when I wink at my boy he winks back. It's super cute
That's a feline social trait, mostly with each other. It's basically saying hi. Well that's usually the long slow dual wink, but still.
That's... A blink, man
"I CAN BLINK WITH BOTH MY EYES AT THE SAME TIME"
That would explain my cat's constantly tired and annoyed look despite his affectionate and playful personality. He copied my expression... damn...
I had a dog who copied my mood a lot. Unfortunately, I have social anxiety. When I walked her, it was like I was acting most of the time! I've never known a cat to do it, though.
TIL! Never put that together
I have a young cat that did not know how to clean themselves. She would watch and copy every move of my older cat when he was cleaning themselves. Got it quick and now is as shiny as the other one. :)
I'm seeing this happen in real time! We just got a kitten in October, after having our dog for a couple of years now. The cat thinks he's a dog, I'm talking he sleeps in the dog beds, he plays with dog toys, he drinks from the dog water bowl and refuses to drink from his own little cat bowl. Last night I witnessed the cat do the dog pose for play when dog came back inside from pottying
They love to play chase and they share toys, it's an amazing thing! Except when they want to eat each other's food instead of their own....
I used to have a cat that ran like a squirrel
My oldest cat loves talking to me and i have taught him how to wink, i can confirm.
I taught my oldest two cats to sit on command. I never had to teach my younger ones as they just watched the older ones and monkey see, monkey do.
Wonder if it's because of mirror neurons. Then some other animals should have a bit of that too.
Aww my gawwd, there is actually a word for that? When i‘m playing with my cat she sometimes goes under the couch and when i leave the room for a second she jumps out to play again. That‘s where i scare her (in a obvious, playful way when she cann see my arm or leg already, don‘t wanna scare her fr) and she occassionally copies me by jumping out of a „hiding“ spot where i can still see her.
it's why some randomly start using the toilet
This is the sweetest, silliest, most wonderful thing.
cat see cat do
I’m gonna say yes bc that’s the cutest thing ever.
Yeah this feels like one of those things, like when a guy injured his leg and his cat started keeping her own front leg lifted in solidarity.
That is the sweetest thing! Cats really are the best copycats when it comes to their humans and friends.
Hey, copycat. That’s where it comes from
I've heard (not for cats, but probably the same thing) it's to confuse predators so they won't be able to single out the injured one.
It's also an evolutionary survival behavior in a lot of social animals: "I don't know why you're keeping your eye closed, but it must be for a good reason so I'll do it too."
You could probably start suddenly running in a crowd and have people run with you.
You definitely could. One fun experiment we did once in my high school intro to sociology class was have a bunch of us start just looking in the sky saying something was there and had a bunch of other kids swearing they saw something too. People are very social creatures.
You just discovered the reason why clapping is a thing.
We're still social animals. Form an interested flock, an angry herd, a fearful gaggle and the people around you will join in.
Yes totally!
Yes, that’s absolutely adorable.
Or she’s being an ass just to make fun of her buddy
Ohhhh… ACTUALLY
A little column A, a little column B.
This. The question is, do they continue to squint when the one-eyed buddy looks at them, or are they squinting behind their back?
Maybe she wants to go do some mischievous things and is hoping you’ll think it was the other cat.
“Hey look, I’m being you, nah naa na nah naa!”
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It’s well known that animals do this. Think of how often they imitate other animal’s and people’s injuries. When you put lop eared bunnies and regular bunnies together, the lop ears try to raise their ears, while the regular bunnies try to lower theirs and make them limp. It’s not silly at all, it’s simply a social behavior. They’re just trying to fit in and likely explore concepts, much like children do.
The bunny example 🥹😭
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Meanwhile, if I start accidentally slipping into a sympathetic accent, I’m considered rude and weird.
A lil rude and a lil weird keeps the world turning
Hello AI Comment! Please fuck off. Kind regards!
Exploring the concept of not being killed or ousted by their pack because they don’t look the same
Well you’re right but it is still silly
>Think of how often they imitate other animal’s and people’s injuries.
This is very rare. It's a cute catchy story that will almost always be re-told and go viral when it's heard. And animal lameness is super hard to diagnose, especially when they're nervous, for example, at a vet's office. So when people take a pet with lameness in and the vet can't find anything wrong, if you've heard this story before or if your vet wants to say something besides shrug his shoulders, this story often is presented as an explanation.
When a pet learns to fake a lameness it's almost always because they had an actual injury and were rewarded inadvertently for the behavior of lifting a leg. But far more often, it's an actual lameness and owners just think that if a pet were in pain they'd cry out when they were touched in a certain spot.
I can't tell you how often owners will say or imply that I'm wasting my time doing a thorough lameness exam where I palpate every bone and joint and extend/flex every joint. They say things like 'oh yeah I tried that he's not painful" or "yeah I tried that he doesn't react" and stuff, as if this, literally the hardest part of my entire job, is just something they could do on their own with no issue and get reliable results. Interpreting subtle signs of discomfort is difficult and subjective, and it's often as much art as science in practice.
And again, any time no concrete finding is present, people want a story. The real story is usually "something probably hurts but I'm not able to tell what today." But the fun story is "he was just doing it for attention!" or "he was just doing it to make me feel better about my lameness!"
I'm not saying anything black and white about never/always, but with absolute certainty, the vast majority of these stories are wrong, and the main reason for lameness is discomfort.
Should add, another common cause of this story is biased memory. Owners often find things because they're looking closely, when they weren't before. For example, it's very common for owners to come in with incidental cysts or lumps and say something like "my other dog bit him and now that's there!" Sometimes I'll even find it in my previous notes, but they forgot or it was so minor that I didn't bother mentioning it, just put it in the exam notes.
Think about how strong placebo and nocebo effects are.
So another thing that can happen is someone gets a lameness, and the notices their pet's lameness. The easiest thing to "misremember" is the timeline-- maybe the lameness started 2 months after the owner's injury, or a week before, but after a year of telling the story it's become two days. But not noticing until you have a reason to notice is another huge thing.
I'm not just trying to be a curmudgeon, but the issue here is we are always looking for ways to dismiss pain in pets. Many people want to decline pain meds after things like spays, when we just cut into their abdomen and cut out internal organs. Sometimes people will decline radiographs for lameness and I'll say "here try this non-steroid anti-inflammatory drug" and they'll say "no, I don't think he's in pain." Well, I just did a lameness exam and he showed a pain response. Not to mention, the most common sign of limb pain in a dog or cat is lameness or loss of function-- nothing else. Not crying out, not whining, not looking for attention. Usually that's it, that's all you get. And for some reason people always want to dismiss pain if they don't see licking, whining, coming up to the owner and asking for attention, etc.
It is my belief that the kinds of mostly urban legend/maybe 5% true stories you present above are one of the things that prevents pets from getting the pain control or other care they deserve.
It's Leo the Lop!
I mean, it's ok that it's a little silly
My dad had his right leg amputated below the knee. For months his cat would walk with his front leg up mimicking him. It was adorable.
Our cat would do this super cute meow that would cause us to immediately drop everything and shower him with loves. After a while his brother would try to copy the same meow. So probably,
The last batch of chicks I raised imprinted on me and still think I’m their mom. They greet me to this day with “baby peep” noises and I hand-feed them treats. I also pet them while I’m doing this.
My older hens who weren’t hand-raised and were a lot more skittish caught onto the “you get treats” part of this. Some of them started mimicking the “baby peep” noises at me, a little tentatively at first.
When I rewarded them by offering hand-fed treats, they also learned to chill out and let me pet them a little.
When we fostered kittens, my boy cat at the time had a very loud, demanding meow. The kittens had much higher-pitched little squeaks. We reacted much more strongly to the kitten squeaks, so for years after he's attempted to make the kitten noises instead of his previous 'attention!!' noises. It's extremely cute because here's this 15lb big boi cat making tiny squeaks. But it did objectively get him more attention.
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(Here's him with his sister. His sister is a normal 10 lb cat. He's the orange.)
Look at that face. Mad. So mad. Give me love and attention. Mad.
Absolutely adorable
I had just turned on the light (had to get up early, sadly) so they were somewhat startled by the light and then! I was taking photos and not petting them! Clearly a terrible choice on my part haha.
Here's a cuter picture :)
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she's still orange too
Serious Cat is Serious.
Look at those two lording it up
We have two brothers we got as kittens who have always been super chatty cats and meow at us a lot. I often have conversations with them where they will meow back after everything I say to them. Our friends moved abroad and we adopted their older cat. They said she never made any noise or meowed. After ~6 months with us she now also meows at us whenever she wants something.
Maybe she learned it because she thought the other cat is doing it?
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Yes. That’s what OP is saying.
When I was a kid we had a dog who was hit by a car and had a partially deformed back leg her whole life, she sat kinda awkward with one leg sticking out to the side because of this. Years later we got another dog and that dog eventually started sitting with a leg awkwardly out to the side in the same way as her now older sister. We are now like 3-4 dogs removed and all of our dogs still sit with one leg awkwardly sitting out because it’s been learned and passed down through the generations. It’s so cute!
What the hell that’s unbelievably cute. Dog tax?
Look up the standing ovation experiment. It’s very cool and fascinating psychology and you’ve observed it must also work in dogs haha
I beseech, demand, and beg of you to present pictures of the awkward sit dog clan.
Me too!!
Similar to the waiting room experiment.
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Awe, your one eyed feline reminds me of my old cat:))) she died a few years back, but I’d say they’re sporting almost the same grumpyneds
Edit: grumpiness
When I talk to my cat he opens and shuts his mouth back at me. So mimicking is definitely something they do lol.
I grew up with all white cat with blue eyes, I could open my mouth at her and she would silent meow back at me.
She wants to play pirate too.
ETA: r/piratecats
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Our one eyed baby says hello, friend! Your cats are absolutely gorgeous by the way. I do think she is mimicking the other! 😌🥺
Oh my🥹 a one-eyed void! It‘s absolutely adorable. Tell ’em I said pspsps<3
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We just picked up this little guy in October. His name is Stevie.
Oh my god. Stevie is such a baby. The fact that you chose him convinces me that you are a beautiful human being and that he will get all the love he deserves. Tell him I said pspsps<3
yeah mine do this often. A couple of days ago I put a harness on one of our cats for the first time, he obviously started walking weird and then our other cat who wasn’t even wearing anything started walking the same way😭 This other time, I got injured and was limping for a couple days and then this god damn cat started copying me and limping as well!! We took him to the vet and he was perfectly fine.
This reminds me of an old post where there was a dog who needed ear medication, and they had to have a placebo for the other dog or he would get really upset.
I remember that one! That was so cute.
I'm trying to teach my cats to wink. The other day I looked at one of them and she was just starting at me with one eye closed 🤣
She's totally emulating! Lmao! A friend of mine broke his leg one year and his cat would limp around in front of him if he pissed her off by not giving her extra food 🤣😂🤣
I think it’s common for cats to notice when they’re hurt they get special attention so they’ll start to fake limp or squint. I think in this case the cutie on the right realizes the cutie on the left doesn’t have an eye and probably gets a little more attention sometimes regarding it so they’re copying to get extra love and attention lol
8 or 9 years ago my boy cat fell off our loft and he hurt his leg. He wouldn't walk up the stairs so I would carry him up there for bedtime (he just had a sprain). After a week I came home from work early and caught him walking up the stairs just fine. He looked at me and lifted his paw like it was still hurting. I told him he needed to figure it out and he wasn't getting carried up the stairs all the time anymore.
Yeah, and dogs do it too... there's a vid on youtube where a guy walking on crutches is being followed by his dog also lifting one paw and pretending to be injured and hobbling around.
One of our cats was missing her left front leg. Occasionally our other cat would pick up her own left front leg and walk on 3 legs.
Your cat mimicking the other cat is highly plausible.
I like this, because yes it's very likely your cat is doing this in solidarity.... But also not fully closing the eye, because then it would have less vision, lol
I only have 1 eye! How do I befriend these cats???
I declare you as friends🫡
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Technically I have two eyes but can only see out of one. So I look like the cat on the right but function like the cat on the left.
This is so cute! I had a pirate cat and mine didn't do this to him but it seems like mimicry. Does she do it when the other one isn't around too? Or only in their presence?
She also does it when the little pirate isn‘t around but definitely more often when they‘re together!
We adopted 2 cats that were adolescents at best when we took them in.
Sometime before us, one of them had lost most of his tail somehow. The other still had the full tail. Full-Tail acted as if he had no tail (rarely moved it or groomed it, etc). Tail-stump acted as if he had a tail, move the stump around, etc. And would groom Full-tails tail for him.
Yes, i read an article a couple years that said animals will do this to "disguise" their hurt friends. They will act hurt or disabled to make it harder for predators to figure out which one is actually the hurt one
If you give a lot of attention to the cat missing an eye, the other cat might mimic it just so she can have more attention too.
Source : I made it up.
Most people know about the "slow blink," but cats also wink for roughly the same reason humans do ("I like you."). Try winking at your cat--chances are good she'll wink or squint in response. Or, if she's already winking, respond in kind (if you can).
(I'm not going to pretend this isn't also being affected by your other cat being in a permanent state of wink.)
Jupp, when I limp from my sciatic nerve issues, my orange head also limps.
Copy cat. :)
I have two cats, one pirate, and the one with two eyes does the same thing! 😊
i’ve heard this is an evolutionary strategy so that predators can’t tell which one is actually injured or weak
No.
Many cats squint one eye. It's extremely common, and often has to do with herpesviral infection causing long-term minor irritation/discomfort. If you work at a shelter you'll see this all the time.
(general practice/shelter vet here)
GUYSSSS. Vet here, and the “they are sympathizing with their friend/owner/whatever” drives me up the wall because (1) show me peer-reviewed research that actually proves that and (2) these are actually animals in pain.
I’d bet my life this is a flare-up of herpes keratitis, which most shelter and outdoor cats have been exposed to and is the underlying cause of a vast majority of feline eye ulcers (without an obvious history of trauma) because it decreases tear production and leads to secondary infections that get out of control. But - the beginning stages often don’t show uptake of fluorescein stain indicating an ulcer. That doesn’t mean they aren’t painful and there is not something happening.
I usually treat these as herpes keratitis unless proven otherwise because it’s better to prevent an ulcer to have to fix it once it happens.
EDIT: Requisite “I can’t diagnose through the internet without an exam.” I was too fired up about the comments on this one and forgot.
Thank you for explaining. How is the process of diagnosing herpes keratitis? Does it require a blood sample? Right before we got them they got their blood taken and they seemed to be fine. But both of them are FIV+ so I really wanna be extra careful!
You have to reply directly to AGenericUnicorn's comment about herpes keratitis if you want them to see your questions.
(Just letting you know because you wrote a top-level comment instead of hitting the "reply" button, and they won't see what you asked until you respond to them directly). :)
My cat does this to me! I close one eye to read sometimes due to BVD
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Yep, mirroring and copy-cat behavior. Dogs do it too. My mom had a car accident that shattered her right ankle so she walked with a limp for a long time. When she adopted a new dog, the puppy started limping her front right leg when she was around mom. So sweet ❤️
Pirate Cat: Arrrr!!!
Pirate Copycat: Shiver me tenders!
We adopted a second cat from a shelter and he wouldn't meow There was this one time when the older cat was meowing when asking for food and the adopted cat was watching him. And a second later he made this tiny meow asking for food too He is meowing now in the usual situations cats do
Also fun fact about that cat - his original name was Ebenezer so we wanted to change it to something really sweet. He's called Mochi now
my cat taught himself to have an overbite because his brother had one too. it was so cute!
Yes. She thinks that's how that cat communicates.
What’s really fascinating is that she is doing the same eye: the left eye.
So she is not mirroring the other cat by doing the eye that would be on the same side of her head as she’s looking at the injured cat, she is doing the correct eye from the point of view of the injured cat. That is super interesting!
They just be doing random things ngl. But also could be some fur or dust irritating their eyes.
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I adopted a mother and daughter bonded pair right from the shelter. momma has a slightly squinty left eye due to her epilepsy and her daughter mimicked it perfectly
Sympathetic squinting!
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My cat wants to be friends 💀
My cat smacks her lips when i make kissy noices to her lol
Their colouring is so similar. How do you tell them apart? /s
Sympathy squints
Not solidarity, mockery.
Awww, Blinkey and Winkey. They are so very cute. I love the story behind this.
The left cat looks angry tired of the other, like "we get it Sam you support me now shut up it's 2300"
D'aww, making sure the pirate kitty fits in.
She’s trauma appropriating for attention.
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This is Okra!
Yes Cats often mirror other cats absolutely adorable af
I have ptosis in my left eye and my cat for sure mimics it when we are interacting 🤣makes me feel like he cares lol
I think it’s so predators don’t know which one of them is hurt? Maybe something like that 🤷♂️ My dogs did the same thing when one hurt her eye!
Yarggg respect for the cap’n
I think one of the theories/ideas (not sure if its true) is that cats imitate so that in the wild the predator wouldn't know which one is actually sick. Its either that or shes doing it in solidarity. I think its cute shes trying to help.