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user-inactivated  ·  3514 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Pets of Hubski

I'm getting a cat because I am one

High-effort-edit: Cats are actually really important to islamic culture. We like 'em cause they're so clean. Even neutering them is frowned upon.

The Prophet Mohammed said that "a love of cats is an aspect of faith." One time a cat saved him from a snake, and he stroked its head, which is reported as what gave cats the "righting reflex."

He also had his own cat, named Muezza. He was so fond of it that once, when it was sleeping on part of his robe, instead of disturbing the cat, he cut off the part of the sleeve that it was sleeping on.

If I get a cat I wanna name it Muezza, but my roommate was like "you have to get a feel for the cat (vijor you dirty hippy I know you're lurking)", so we'll see.