• PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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    14 hours ago

    Cats are literally made of weapons and they are very assertive about their rights.

    I don’t know what precise definition you want to use for “win the fight,” but in think in most cases, you will either kick the cat before it attaches itself to you or else it will do a significant amount of damage for which you should go to the hospital and then take its leave. I think the second outcome is probably a lot more likely if the cat has decided it’s go time and I would generally define that as “win.”

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      5 hours ago

      Winning the fight in this case just means accepting some pain.

      Getting hold of the cat will probably hurt. Breaking its neck doesn’t take a lot once you’ve got hold.

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        5 hours ago

        https://www.thepoke.com/2016/06/06/cat-experiement-goes-wrong-in-funny-way-yeah/

        Fella was already ready to kill the cats and had 0 success at all in dispatching them once it was real. Like Mike Tyson said, everyone has a plan until the hand that’s going to break the neck is getting eaten like a mouse.

        I won’t say that what you say is impossible, just that things like that are not as easy as they seem. Animals generally pretty capable when it’s go time even if the theory seems like they should be easy to deal with.

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          4 hours ago

          Funny but not exactly a normal circumstance and a 4v1 by the sound of it.

          If I couldn’t kill a cat with a kick which is seriously doubtful, I could definitely do it with my hands.