Scooter going through it.
“It’s so weird. I shit in the box, and then the next day it’s just, gone. Where does it go? Who is stealing my poop?”
Cats can’t read Hegel nor Nietzsche, so I say no, they can’t experience existential dread.
I’d say no, knowledge that we will some day die is unique to humans.
They certainly experience ennui though.
Now I wonder about elephants given that they have funerals and mourn their dead.
Same with crows.
Since they are the land spirit of dread I don’t think they can.
Furball ennui
No. But they do wonder if they should buy a boat.
Of COURSE they do. Hell they feel existential dread towards things that aren’t even there. Its just that their body language is so different from ours, that we don’t usually recognize it.
Hell just staring into an unfamiliar cat’s eyes can give it a case of the screaming jibblies.
