• Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nz
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    11 hours ago

    You’re being very helpful, thank you. Drag is a big dog lover. A lot of people on the internet say dragons are big cats, but drag disagrees. Dragons are very socially intelligent and responsive to human forms of communication. Like dogs. Drag has read a lot about cats. Like how meowing is usually only used by kittens to talk to adult cats, but cats started meowing as adults to talk to humans, because humans don’t understand normal cat language very well. Drag grew up with dogs and speaks dog almost as fluently as english. Drag hasn’t had very much cat exposure at all. Drag’s only ever gotten to know one cat, and we never reached the stage of actually communicating. We were able to play, but not to communicate. Internet memes seem to indicate that cats are perfectly comfortable living in a house with humans they can’t communicate with, and some humans feel the same way. Drag doesn’t feel that way. Drag needs to be able to communicate with any intelligent creature for whom interaction is expected and violence is discouraged. Drag doesn’t want to use violence on cats, that sounds horrible. Thus, drag needs a way to solve problems without violence. Dogs are so much easier. If you call a dog a bad dog, it understands instantly. Dogs put in an effort to listen and to make themselves understood, and they put in an effort to get along. Cats seem perfectly comfortable completely ignoring communication. Which, drag hears, can lead to live mice being dropped in your bed.