What do people who live in neighborhoods do with the bodies of their dead pets??

[Kitty]

Haha it really is, I know it's not a laughing matter but just the cat-people-aliens made me laugh.

What do the cats tell you in response?

[Mister Obvious]

What do the cats tell you in response?

Hmmm...

Their story is sort of along the same lines as the one about the 'aliens' who engineered humans and then left us here...

It's somewhere in between "They're all dead" and/or "They don't care about us"...

But oddly one of the most common responses I get is that the cats here are tiny compared to the size they were when they started out. Even the 'big cats' are very small in comparison. The housecats are miniature, to put it nicely.

Everything is much much much smaller than it used to be.

I'm not saying they're so small that they don't matter anymore... I mean, if I was an alien-cat-person I would prettymuch still come back for them even if they were microscopic.

[Kitty]

That's pretty trippy.

It definitely seems plausible that cats were much bigger at one point, I would be pretty freaked out to see a dinosaur-size cat.

But on that topic, if life is so much smaller now than it used to be, is that trend going to continue? Are animals/humans all going to be tiny and microscopic in the future?

Yes I really think so. The evidence seems to be insects, they are like the smallest creatures on the planet yet they've been around the longest.

Maybe it's a natural evolution or adaption to overpopulation, because the smaller you are the less resources you need and less space you take up.

You should ask the cats about the future if you haven't already...

[Mister Obvious]

But on that topic, if life is so much smaller now than it used to be, is that trend going to continue? Are animals/humans all going to be tiny and microscopic in the future?

I definitely do think so... but it's all relative. We will not notice it in successive incarnations.

You should ask the cats about the future if you haven't already...

I've done something like that before, and this was the answer...

[Kitty]

That's beautiful, it doesn't even make me sad, because it's the forces of the universe in action

[Mister Obvious]

It never made me sad either...

I've had dreams about it all too.

I really think this will happen within the next 200 years...

Wouldn't be surprised if it was a lot sooner though.

It's all happened before...

There's nothing to fear when you know it's just the same stuff over and over again.

It's really very beautiful.

[Mister Obvious]

If it did happen in our lifetimes, I think it would be cool to die in a natural global cataclysm... at least it's not boring.

[Kitty]

Yes and at least all your loved ones go with you at the same time, so there's no one left behind

Not that I want to will this to happen or anything.

[Mister Obvious]

There's an interesting sense of oneness that comes over people during natural global cataclysms.

[Mister Obvious]

Very powerful. One of the most powerful experiences actually.

[Guest]

When I was younger I got into some trouble with the law. Had to do 120 hours of community service I got the animal shelter at the time it was a kill shelter. It was kind of a service to the town you could bring your pet that had passed to the shelter and have them  cremated/disposed of in the incinerator.
They fired it up the last Tuesday night of each month I worked it twice that was enough for me.
It's not funny but it kinda is.we would get some people coming back the next day wanting the ashes.of their pets.
What they didn't understand was that each animal wasn't cremated separate cats,dogs, city streets road kill all together so I'd just go get a baggie full and say there he or she is 
That was a good learning experience workings with animals
My last day I adopted a German Shepherd Chow mix and a red nose pit bull ,saved their asses they were scheduled to be put down.both lived a long life died of old age and they are buried side by side in my own pet cemetery.

[Mister Obvious]

Wow...

Thanks for saving those dogs, Guest.

Having to put animals down is the most gut wrenching and terrible job there is and I have to be honest...

I think that animals need to run free and humans need to stop trying to control them all, taking their lives in the process.

There's a serious imbalance going on here, humans are way out of hand.

Do unto others... someday we will be dealt with the same way if we don't get back in our place.

[Guest]

To be clear the animas were taken to a veterinarian to be put down

[Mister Obvious]

Yeah, it is necessary and merciful to have them put down when they start wasting away of old age... it's very sad and at a certain point it's time to make that decision.

[Guest]

I think I jinxed myself talking about the animal shelter and animal death.
Woke up at 6:00am and started feeding all the pets and my daughter's guinea pig is dead...

[Mister Obvious]

We had a lot of hamsters when I was growing up and we’d find them dead in all these super bizarre ways. One of them died during what looked like giving birth but I’m not even sure WTF happened to it, all I know is it scared the shit out of me.