[ SECRET POST #2202 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2202 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Sorry, early today!

Also: I'm not going to officially warn for tongue-in-cheek "triggers" just to provide anyone with a fandom-specific in-joke when there are none in the secret.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I have a genuine question for the cat people. I can tell one dog from another of the same breed from their faces and their body and it would appear that OP can too, but most of you apparently don't do that. Can you do it with cats? Tell one Persian from another and such? Because I can't. All cats of one breed look the same to me. I'm wondering if it's just a species familiarity thing, that we develop some sort of animal facial recognition.

[(Anonymous)]

How do you go from "most people here can't tell what OP is going on about because they're unclear and referencing something that doesn't actually happen much" to "cat people can't tell dog faces apart"? Kind of a bizarre leap of logic.

Not to mention that huskies aren't exactly the most common breed that tons of people would have a lot of experience with. You can be a "dog person" and have the majority of your involvement be with pitbulls or shelties or daschunds and still not have a lot of experience with huskies.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

There have been people saying that most people can't tell dog faces apart.


Actually, I would expect cat people would be more likely to be able to tell dog faces apart than oh-my-god-what-is-that-smelly-thing-my-allergies-ACK people.

[(Anonymous)]

Quick, informal, completely unscientific poll of my dog-people friends, they all said that even if they've never owned a particular breed themselves or had much experience with it, they can tell one Great Dane from another or one Pomeranian from a batch, or one German Shepherd from the rest of its pack. People in this post have been saying they can't tell dog faces apart but it is apparently not that uncommon a thing for dog people. So, question, can cat people tell cats apart the way dog people tell dogs apart.

[(Anonymous)]

Certainly. Then again, I think I can probably tell dog faces apart in at least some cases, too.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, as I'd imagine horse people find it easier to tell different horses apart, or any people who are more familiar and experienced with a particular time of animal have with telling individuals apart.

[(Anonymous)]

Cats are very easy to tell apart for me. Dogs are somewhat easy. I've known different huskies, too, none of them looked like each other.

[(Anonymous)]

I can tell one cat from another of the same breed. I can also tell one dog from another of the same breed. What I can't do is explain why anti-maskface bigotry has persisted so long in the dark corners of fandom. It's truly the last acceptable prejudice.

[inversecalico]

Yes, you can. It can be difficult if they are the same color or very similarly marked. Familiarity with the animals in question helps.

I've got two (unrelated) solid black semi-fluffy cats of similar size, and I know what their distinguishing features are--female has a broad face; male has a pointy face, male's tail is longer and bushier, female is pear-shaped/hippy--but I've still made mistakes when viewing them from certain angles or in poor light. Acquaintances and strangers generally find distinguishing them to be hopeless.

I've also got a short-haired solid black cat that I adopted while volunteering for a humane society several years ago. I bonded strongly to him while waiting for someone else to adopt him (black cats tend to be the last ones adopted; the rest of his litter was gone two months before I took him) so I could reliably tell him apart from the other three older black kittens he ended up sharing a cat tower with.

Test your skills!

[inversecalico]

Can you guess which is which?


The male and his sister. Sometimes cats of the same type are very easy to tell apart. LOL

Re: Test your skills!

[yeahscience]

I'm going to try this for fun: The one in the second picture is the one on the left in the first picture?

Re: Test your skills!

[inversecalico]

Correct! You deserve a gold star! The cat in the background next to the pillows is indeed the male cat with a torbie sister.

Re: Test your skills!

[englishsparkle]

I want to steal that tortoiseshell cat. OH GOD SO ADORABLE IT'S MELTING MY SOUL.

[maverickz3r0]

I can do it with both dogs and cats. I'm more of a cat person.

This may be because I keep fish, which are slightly harder to tell apart when they're of the same breed. (And none of my roommates believe me when I say I can tell the black mollies apart.)

[(Anonymous)]

I can believe that - both that you can and the reactions you get. I tried breeding mollies early on, because they're supposed to be such an easy starter, but made the mistake of keeping them in the same tank as goldfish.

Then I got a pair of convict cichlids, didn't even know their genders for sure, and started getting fry the second I turned my backs on them.

For personality, though, you can't beat tiger oscars.

[maverickz3r0]

Mollies are nasty sometimes. I had to get birthing traps when I got them so they wouldn't eat their own babies when they had them. Worked, several of the ones I have now were born with us.

My personal favourite is my plecostamus (I swear if it had the equipment it'd be smart enough to talk), although one of the tiger barbs makes me laugh. Dumbest damn fish I've ever seen, but man is his patterning pretty. He's got a dusting of black over the orange markings on his side scales that sometimes looks almost green.

[(Anonymous)]

I had a few plecos - never really saw much personality variation between them. But once I got a striped raphael catfish because, well, it's shaped like a pleco, must just be a different color! Didn't do much about the algae on the tank, but he was great. One of my oscars got sick and kept drifting to the bottom of the tank, and he would swim underneath and try to push him up. Most amazing thing I ever saw a fish do.

[i_paint_the_sky]

For me, it depends on familiarity. As I mentioned above, I grew up with Labs and so I can tell different Labs apart, even if they are the same colour. I cannot, however, tell the differences between dogs of other breeds apart.

With cats, my experience is more limited, since I've only very rarely been around two cats of the same "breed." But my aunt has two cats who are brothers and black and I cannot tell which one is which.

I also have identical twin cousins who I can't tell apart either though (I only see them a couple of times a year).

[oftheark]

Well, cats tend to have more of a variety of coat colours and markings because it's not something that's defined by their DNA. IE, people generally know what colour/markings an average German Shepherd has, but a Persian cat? Can be any colour with any markings under the sun. Cats are more defined by physical features than they are colour/markings.

That said, I think recognizing any animal is more about your familiarity with said animal/breed than it is general human knowledge.