It’s actually both
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I have to ruin the joke but this is not really accurate.
Cat’s are not thinking about “killing” when they have this look. It’s the “play & snack mode” a very positive feeling for the cat. They don’t have the idea that they might hurt or kill another living being in the process.
The real “kill mode” is when having a dispute with other cats (or cat like animals) that they identity not as a snack but as a cat like thing. And this look is much closer to the left picture.
Fight mode is usually ears back, low to the ground, fur on end, tense muscles and accompanied by hissing/bapping. Tail tucked in or fully raised dependent on cat and whether they feel cornered or aggressive.
Eyes half squinted, ears generally relaxed/lightly twitching with occasional tail swish is chill mode.
Whiskers will be more horizontal as well. Drooping whiskers = relaxed.
The left picture is also very close to a cat smile, a little more squinty-ness and that’s a smile.
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What? I know they are memeable things, but cats aren’t subject to the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle. Can you honestly tell me you have never seen a cat or any animal for that matter change their facial expression without much movement? Even a yawn?
I’ll explain this joke to you when you’re older.
I guess it’s a whoosh moment? I thought you were claiming the image as AI :p
Yeah, basically. It’s just a bit of colorful embellishment about the sometimes unpredictable/unruly behavior of cats, which is a common trope. “Like herding cats” et.c.
I actually almost made a joke about the Heisenberg uncertainty being how pure the meth is going to be when you cook it but I decided against it but now that you mention it.
Wouldn’t be so sure about that Heisenberg principle. This Schrödinger’s Cat thing must come from somewhere…
The first is the judgement and planning phase.
The second is when demonic behavior might leak out.…“might”? A decision has already been made behind those eyes.
In the first photo it looks like it just smoked a joint.
In the second photo it looks like it just snorted five lines and is ready to go scarface.
So yeah, it tracks.
Way back I gave one of my cats one of those toys that’s basically a torus with a ball that rolls around the inside with openings on top to allow the cat to hit the ball around. The openings were just a hint too small for the ball to come out without any force. Anyway, I gave my girl this toy and I swear she spent over half an hour just knocking that ball around. I walked up and pulled the ball out and showed it to her and in an instant her eyes went from slits to fully dilated. She didn’t attack me though, she just yelled at me instead.
Don’t worry she probably not thought about killing you, but was just happy you signalized to play “kill this thing” with her.
Learned that in elementary school
The cat will open its pupils when gunting, since closed eyes hinder its sight
“gunting” made me feel a certain way
It sounds like a place where you put things or the sound you make when you put things in the gunt.
My cat can be a complete gunt at times. I’ve not noticed if her pupils differ at these times
There is a whole horror short story in those 2 faces if you are a creature that is smaller than them.
“yawn, that little creature is so boring an unimpressive…I should go break its leg and bite it to see if that makes it do anything interesting.”
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It’s not “kill mode”, it’s attentive.
Attending to the thing they intend to kill
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Nothing strange about it.
