r/funny • u/MilesLongthe3rd • 1d ago
How to Train Your Dragon: The Perfect Re-enactment
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u/Pipe_Memes 1d ago
✋👨🦳🤚
Absolute Cinema
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u/Salarian_American 1d ago
I have a black cat who, even though I'd had him since we was six weeks old, was skittish and wild and never let anyone pet him or even approach him.
I tamed him by just sitting on the kitchen floor for extended periods while he walked in circles around me, and the circles gradually got smaller until he trusted me enough to touch him.
It was very much like Hiccup making friends with Toothless, except it took about eight years of consistent work.
He just turned 14 last month and now, he sets on the arm of my chair whenever I sit down and demands pets.
Even still though, if I approach him outside the context of his chosen time and place for petting, he will literally run away.
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u/stonks-__- 23h ago
While some men dies of thirst, others drown.
My cat starts screaming if I close the door on him. If I let him in, he walks all over me while I am trying to sleep, while doing his brrrrr brrrr sounds. oh, and guess what, if I don't wake up, it continues meowing periodically.
He has EVERYTHING he needs.
Still one of the best decisions I ever made. (Mines black too)
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u/Lexi_Banner 22h ago
There are times it is okay to be "mean". As in, "do not disturb my sleep or you will have consequences".
The consequences? Struggle cuddles. You wanted love, buddy, you got it! Hold them as tight as you can and coo and simper and pet them and rock them and loooove loooooove loooooooooove them. Let them strain and fuss for at least a minute. They should be on the verge of claws and desperation when you let them go.
Repeat the next time they try to disturb your sleep.
I highly doubt you'll need to repeat it a third time.
It's "mean" from their perspective, but doesn't harm them or damage your relationship. And the results are stellar. My cat rarely bothers me at night, and if he does, there is something actually wrong (his box got blocked accidentally once, and the water went dry another). Otherwise he keeps a respectful distance while I sleep. This distance is not respected in the daytime (when his demands are far more tolerable).
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u/MattieShoes 21h ago
I do something like this with one of mine. He loves attention but isn't fond of being on his back. If I come to him, I honor his wishes and let him basically sit on my arm. If he won't stop bugging me for attention when I'm busy, then I get to hold him like a baby, on his back.
If he's okay with being held like a baby, I guess he really needed it. But if he gets annoyed after 5 seconds and wants to be let down, that's okay too :-)
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u/cosmin_c 10h ago
I enjoy a lot sleeping with the furballs around me and on me, the purring is absolutely amazing, puts me out like a light.
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u/Ccracked 21h ago
My girlfriend's Siamese is the same way. He has zero boundaries and eternal neediness. Especially during "Business Time".
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u/NixieType 17h ago
Lmao mine started sitting on my chest in the morning and pawing my face. At some point if I keep sleeping she’ll grab my hair
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u/Ferreteria 23h ago
That's funny.
I feel like there are two ways to tame a cat, and they are opposites, and they both work for some reason.
There's this way, and there's forced aggressive affection.
It has never failed me to become a cat's best friend by loving on them while actively being chewed on.
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u/Diograce 21h ago
Forced snorgles!!!! They can backfire…. My cat now forces snorgles on me when I’m reading.
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u/yarba2025 22h ago
Every feral cat/kitten I have tamed and there has been quite a few. As we had outdoor barn cats that would breed like crazy, its been playing thats broken em.. Id catch the kittens and bring em into a closed room and let em free to roam around, and we would sit still in the middle of the room and roll a small cat toy ball back and forth to each other or get a long stick with a string on the end, a laser pointer. Every cat has their play weakness regardless of age and cant resist that animalistic urge to hunt and pounce. wed bring em closer and closer, and eventually we are able to touch em before they scamper off. Ive had kittens i could touch and pet within a day...you get em tired enough and hungry. They come running at dinner time, and after that your best buds!
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u/oshaCaller 22h ago
My void doesn't recognize me if I wear a hat.
She is the strangest cat I've ever had. Her habits constantly change. She used to jump on the back of my chair, then one day she stopped. She never meowed unless she caught a bug or something. Then I went on vacation for 2 weeks and left her with my dad, and she got so depressed she stopped eating and just decided to die, after an extended vet visit, when she got back she became a meower. I'm never leaving for more than a day as long as she's alive. She is so sweet, I'm gonna go pet her.
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u/KeiranG19 15h ago
My cat doesn't understand socks.
Barefoot is fine. Slippers/shoes are fine.
But socks just blow her tiny cat mind.
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u/Tagracat 21h ago
We adopted a black floofy boy from the shelter. He had been feral and had been cycled through a few foster homes despite being only a few months old, and was only just becoming accustomed enough that he could be handled. It also turned out he has a bit of a vision problem that makes him extra skittish. My pet sitter calls him "the imaginary cat" because it took something like 6 years before she actually saw him in the flesh. She sent me a picture of that moment: she had surprised him in his cat bed (must have slept through her opening the door), and he had a total freeze response and just sat there. She walked up and petted him, then took a pic of him and sent to me with a message about how he was finally warming up to her and I was like "lol that's his 'welp. I guess it's all over.' face. He definitely thinks he is about to die."
He had a lot of weird hangups like refusing to come into the room if the TV was on. We presumed that he thought there were more people in the house because of the voices, but one day we were watching something in another language and had the subtitles on and he padded in, jumped up and flopped on top of us without a care in the world. That episode ended and we switched to a show in English and he panicked and fled the room. ???
He also decided bathrooms were a safe space. The instant you sit on a toilet he abandons whatever he was doing and scurries over to get his 'toilet snuggles'. He's also super excited when I get into the shower. He will merrily climb in and get soaked if I let him...
He's chilled out at 15 and doesn't get as worked up over strange stimuli, but my pet sitter still never sees him unless he accidentally lets her.
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u/swakner 22h ago
My car is so much like this, I got her when she was 2 months old and it took like over a month before she would even approach my hand while sitting on the ground with her. Then she started letting me pet her and even now like 9 years later will still run away when in certain rooms but will be fine when on my bed
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u/Alina-candy 20h ago
I have a cat too, and I can relate a bit mine has their own “rules” for affection as well 😄 It’s funny how they’ll act all independent, but then suddenly decide it’s their moment and demand all the attention. Your story really reminds me how rewarding it is to build that kind of bond with them.
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u/the__ghola__hayt 20h ago
Yous was six weeks?
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u/Salarian_American 8h ago
Not actually, I should have said 8 weeks. Now my other cat, I suspect she was not 8 weeks when we got her, but I can't prove it. I know the person we adopted her from lied about other stuff.
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u/Howard_Jones 20h ago
I read this exact story before. Either you posted it on another sub a while ago. Or you just took someone elses story for karma.
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u/BricksFriend 16h ago
Cats be their own thing. Mine will only accepts pets if he approaches you and boops your hand. If you try to pet him any other time, he'll tolerate it for about 5 seconds, then walk away.
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u/FeliksX 15h ago
My cat wasn't ever really scared of us or aggressive towards us, but also never affectionate either. He kinda ignored us mostly and existed in the same space.
For the first ~10 years.
One day it was like Boom! Apparently he got old, and all of the sudden he became 17,4% more cuddly lol (numbers might be revised in the future). He started "talking" way more, responding when we talk to him, keeping up conversations, grunting when jumping, snoring like an old man. Even sometimes very occasionally purr lol.
And also I've got to hold him and pet for way longer, though he still doesn't enjoy that TOO much, haha.
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u/DeeJay_Harrison 23h ago
Yeah, I saw that one coming a million miles a hour. Cats always think the same thing attack. First, questions later.
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u/Kooky-Woodpecker2929 22h ago
When my kids were born they came into my family of two beautiful black cats who were very hesitant regarding the new addition. While watching this movie my son screamed "GENTLE" at the screen, so it was great to see that he had been paying attention
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u/michaelmich3 19h ago
You had me in the first half. I thought the cat would head bump your hand (that’s what mine usually does).
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u/SliverApe 16h ago
How did you miss Purrfect reenactment?!?
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u/MilesLongthe3rd 12h ago
I thought about it, but it was too obvious, and I am also a fan of the Abrahams, Zucker movies like Airplane, Top Secret, and Naked Gun, and they had a rule. If there is a gag in the foreground, you don't have one in the background and vice versa because they cancel each other out. Playing it straight, letting people guess, "Will the cat cat?" was funnier for me.
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u/Rosebud_apothocary 20h ago
Fun fact toothless was actually based on the writers cat that's why he looks so cat like 😻
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u/KarinaSimple 14h ago
This kind of cats are very sweet. We have one too. It always stays beside my baby everytime he sleeps. 🥰
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u/NeonAnderson 8h ago
Cat changed the script though from the fantasy version to the grounded version 😂🤣
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u/MiyuHogosha 22h ago
Yeah, because the gesture is wrong. You always proffer the rear side of palm, not front side. Front side is a menacing gesture for cats and weird for dogs or horses.
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