Zeno
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Post by Zeno on Sept 13, 2007 21:59:06 GMT -5
Do you think your therianthropy affects your relationship with your pets? I don't really think it affects my relationship with my pets but they act weird around me when I shift.
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Post by RedFeather on Sept 13, 2007 22:22:37 GMT -5
I don't know. Although three of our four pets are birds. (The other's an African House Snake.) I don't know if it affects anything or not, but ever since I've had pet birds (since I was in the sixth grade), I've been really good with them. They seem to be able to understand me, and I can kind of understand them. It's easy for me to read their body language and such.
I don't know if it has anything to do with my therianthropy, or if it's just the fact that I'm so fascinated with birds, and they can pick up on that.
*shrug*
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Post by Sherlawk Dragon on Sept 13, 2007 23:46:42 GMT -5
hmm... yeah, I think most therians have a way of playing with pets like they are animals themselves... we also have a more solid connection with them, animal to animal, because we percieve and relate to them more as equals. We are animals inside, so are they. The other part is that they are people who we can feel free to open up our animal side to. you can play with a pet as a Raccoon, I do that all the time, I LOVE to play ball. There are some things you just can't do with a human... if there aren't any therians, you relate to the net best thing: a non-human-animal.
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Post by Thylae on Sept 14, 2007 10:41:03 GMT -5
Yes. I often have tried to repeat the behaviors these animals do in order to connect better. Yet despite my sometimes canine like behaviors around dogs, people normally would not call me a dog person.Having three of them, it gets to be a little too much, if you ask me. Still, I try to play as best I can with them...I find playing with animals like the animal would play much more entertaining than just throwing a ball for them to retrieve.
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Post by Sherlawk Dragon on Sept 15, 2007 9:23:19 GMT -5
Sometimes I want someone to just throw a ball for ME to retrieve... o.o,
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Post by asazieagle on Sept 16, 2007 11:43:06 GMT -5
it's more fun to play with animals the way they would play with their own kind. I used to play-wrestle with my dogs all the time back in my pre-teen and teenage years. Around cats I try to communicate with them using their own body language, though it's tough without a physical tail. I whistle at our birds a lot and I like birdcalls a lot, especially when I can imitate them.
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Post by Zeno on Sept 17, 2007 1:34:13 GMT -5
Ya, I love imatating the calls of my sister's cockatiel. It's funny cause we can go on for an hour doing it!
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Post by Equinuus-Felinity on Sept 17, 2007 12:37:58 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure my therianthropy affects my relationship with my cat (and all animals I come in contact with). I think it's because (in my eyes) animals are more "my kind" than humans are, so I treat them like my family rather than a "pet".
With my cat (in my feline state) she treats me as her dominant, rather than a human slave like she usually does XD and it's when I'm in feline state that she likes to play chase with me. Though (in my equine state) she chooses to ignore me entirely. In fact, she doesn't want anything to do with me then.
But the horses in my neighborhood treat me nicely at that time =^_^= we'll run up and down the fields together, play "tag", and play fight (which, I might add, is not entirely fair for me XD I mean, I'm just a five foot three girl, and they are one ton muscle bound animals. Oh how I envy them.)
Dogs like me in both my states. In horse state, they "dance" with me and play chase. In cat state, they like to wrestle with me (or, if it's a dog that's been trained to hate cats, I have to hide someplace high up and hiss at them).
And even when I'm human, I still see animals through an animals eyes. *shrug* dunno, but that's my rant for the day. lol ^_^
<.< and I must admit, I wish someone would play with me like I was a cat. >_< oh how many times I've wanted to chase my cats toy mice when they've been thrown.
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Post by RedFeather on Sept 17, 2007 18:45:35 GMT -5
But the horses in my neighborhood treat me nicely at that time =^_^= we'll run up and down the fields together, play "tag", and play fight (which, I might add, is not entirely fair for me XD I mean, I'm just a five foot three girl, and they are one ton muscle bound animals. Oh how I envy them.) Kind of reminds me of myself with the red-tailed hawks around here. They tend to hang out with me (there's even one that sleeps in the tree directly behind our apartment), and I can even communicate with them, it seems. And I envy them for their ability to soar and fly, too.
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Post by littlewolf on Sept 18, 2007 8:29:35 GMT -5
my older, bigger dog likes it when i play like a wolf with him, but my little one gets freaked out. it could be because i'm acting weird to her, but there's also the possibility that she's picking up on the fact that as a wolf, i'm bigger and a lot tougher than she is. like, when i start walking on all fours and doing little playful swipes at her, she immediately goes into one of the subordinate poses that lower wolves take around alphas (either she'll lie down on her back or crouch low to the ground near me). it weirds me out when she does that, lol. i'm like, "don't you wanna play...?"
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Post by kumaltygris on Oct 1, 2007 20:19:12 GMT -5
I have noticed a difference in the way my cat acts around me and other people. I can hold her in anyway and she just lets me do it. I have also noticed that others peoples pets are almost the same why. whether they are feline, canine, or what ever. It's kinda fun to walk into a pet store that has birds, they definitely DON'T like me. They go absolutely nuts if I simply stand in front of the cage. ;D Oh and my rabbit doesn't like to much of me either or that could be my imagination
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Post by rckymntnspirit on Oct 2, 2007 1:53:43 GMT -5
I think the way I view animals affects my relationships with my pets from my dogs back home to my college companions, two betta fish. I see animals as people and generally treat them like such. I joke around that my dog is kind of an opposite therian, he's a moody teenage boy trapped in a dog body. I treat all animals like people and my pets respond to me much differently than they do to other members of my family and strangers that treat them like "dumb animals". I can also play a lot rougher with my critters because they know where I draw the line with them too. They'll try to play every kind of trick on people who don't know them very well or even on my family members that they don't really see as part of the fold. They behave really well when I'm home but are apparently very annoying when I'm not there. I don't think my sister's cat likes me very much, but that might be because I like to play tricks on her. I don't tend to like her very much either when she wakes me up in the middle of the night to feed her (just kidding bitty cat I love you!). I get a lot of strange looks from people due to my whole "animals are people too" philosophy. My roomate made fun of me when I was telling a ground squirell off for trying to steal our food when we were hiking. I also talk to my fish on occassion just because sometimes they are more intellegent company than other college students
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Post by Equinuus-Felinity on Oct 2, 2007 12:58:56 GMT -5
lol, yeah, I talk to animals like they are people too. Some of my longest conversations have been with my cat. And more recently, I had week of very annoying fun with the neighbors strange yapper of a dog. Little butthead keeps coming round and acting like this is his turf, and since we have feral cats that wander around our house, I tend to side with them. >.> so I've chased him out of the yard and all the way up the street hissing at him. Oh, the little bugger was lucky he survived the first time. He had the guts to come right up to me and start yapping at me like I was on his ground. <.< needless to say, I popped him over the head and chased him away. But, I've also noticed as of late the difference between the way "tamed" animals and "wild" animals act towards me. The poor dogs that have been brainwashed into submission to humans tend to look at me funny when I start acting like an animal, where-as the ones that are more free-range canines love it, and really do start treating me as one of their kind. Same with the cats around here. Whenever I step outside and the feral cats are hanging around, they don't run like they do with "normal" humans. They hang-back, and watch me do my thing. but I like your opposite therian dog, Spirit. I always joke that my kitty is a wolf trapped in a housecat body. XD my whole family laughs when my mom starts whistling and saying "Here puppy! Come here puppy, yes come here, you're such a good doggy" and my cats running over to her, tail wagging, and ready to have her belly-rubbed. *shakes head* she's nuts, I say
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Zeno
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Post by Zeno on Oct 4, 2007 0:35:11 GMT -5
A kitty wolf eh?
Still I notice that I seem to get along better with my sisters bird when I'm in a shift, we preen each others feathers ;D.
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Post by RedFeather on Oct 16, 2007 14:48:31 GMT -5
Hmm... how do you do that? By using your fingers, or your mouth? I'm just wondering, because... um... does the bird get slobbered on?
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