- Don't Let Your Cat Lick On Your Starbucks Cup, They Might Get Poisoned.

- Don't let your cat lick on your Starbucks cup, they might get poisoned.

- OH YOU ARE SUCH A SNOWFLAKE GO THE GRASS AND TOUCH THE OUTSIDE

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- Your cat is destroying your TV because for the cat it is natural to want to jump on a higher surface. You should buy a cat tree or get some shelves for your little dude.

- No, he's just orange! Silly orange cat! So annoying

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I talked to a cat behaviourist recently (who happens to be my friend) and she shared her annoyance over the fact that people often record their cats doing "silly things" which can be potentially dangerous for the little guys, like leaving an open aquarium and recording cats trying to catch the fish and then them falling into that aquarium, because it's "funny" or, for instance, allowing cats to get in through a tilted window (she actually shared a personal story that her neighbour had such an incident with her cat having got stuck in a window like that and loosing sensations in his back paws because of that; the cat gained sensations back after some massage, but a few more minutes and he would have lost his legs or broken his spine), and everytime she tries to inform people what exactly can be done in such situations to avoid any trauma or injury, they say: "it's just a cat, whatever" or even tell her to shut up, claiming that her suggestion is "unreasonable" and she doesn't know what she's talking about.

General rule of thumb: NEVER say anything negative in the comment section under a cat video. No matter what's happening in that video or what your comment is about, if it's negative even in the slightest, you are dead. The internet community of people who think they "touch the grass" more often then you do will devour you. The fact that your are an experienced cat owner or even a professional cat behaviourist or veterinarian can't save you. You shall be destroyed.

Brief definitions:

Ad Hominem: Trying to undermine the opponent's arguments by using personal attacks rather than logical argument

False Dilemma: Presenting two alternative states as the only possibilities when more possibilities may exist

Bandwagon: Presuming that a proposition must be true because many believe it to be true/everyone else is doing or saying it

Incomplete Comparison: Comparing two things that aren't really related, in order to make something more appealing than it would be otherwise

Strawman: Misrepresenting an argument so that it becomes easier to attack

False Cause: Citing sequential events as evidence that the first event caused the second

Slippery Slope: Claiming that a single event will lead to a series of events that would lead to one major event, or that event A will lead to event B which must lead to event C and so on until event Z

False Analogy: Assuming that if two things or events have similarities in one or more respects, they are similar in other properties too

Guilt by Association: Connecting an opponent to a demonized group of people or to a bad person in order to discredit their argument

Hasty Generalization: Making a claim based on evidence that is too small to prove the claim

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Folwark Kobierzyn #9

Neglected buildings of a former folwark (a type of grange) in Kobierzyn, currently a district of Krakow, Poland.