I was at a family gathering when Marie wanted to get up on my lap and she did this.
All conversation stopped for a moment and my mom said “A new trick, hu?”
That made me stop because 1) It’s not new. She’s been doing this from the start, and 2) I never taught it to her. It’s just a thing we do. I don’t even remember when or how it started. I think we both just figured out this was the fastest/laziest way to pick her up when I’m sitting down.
It made me realize that there’s quite a few things that people think are tricks but I just consider it coexisting with my dogs.
But yeah, there’s no command for this. I just put my feet together and if she wants to get on my lap she’ll step up on them. I assume most people have a version of this with their pets?
I love that I share my house with one of the most efficient apex predators millions of years of evolution could produce. I love that two of nature’s most prolific machines met and were like “hmmm. We should lay around and do nothing together”. Now we’re both fat and happy and full of meat. The hedonism of it all
Humans keeping cats and dogs as family members is like three prodigy assassins being introduced in the back of a shady nightclub and 45 minutes later they’re 6 crunchwrap supremes deep passing a blunt in the back of a shag carpeted Volkswagen microbus rating Oreo varietals by fuckability
tumblr users have the unique ability to string together sentences never before seen in all of human history and yet they conjure up such specific visceral imagery that you can’t help but be a little in awe. and i think that’s beautiful
Love and peace on planet earth
filijester
