Whats the difference between being raped and being molested?
Rape - The crime of forcing another person to submit to sex acts, especially sexual intercourse. Molestation - Molestation is the crime of sexual acts with children up to the age of 18, including touching of private parts, exposure of genitalia, taking of pornographic pictures, rape, and various sexual acts with the molester or with other children. Similar but not exactly the same... someone can be molested but it doesn't mean they were raped. To be raped, they'd have to be actually penetrated by force.
Why do people feel the urge to pet cats?
That doesn't make you want to pet her tummy? I can't explain why I get the urge, but it's pretty irresistible.My cat lays like this every morning on weekends and I pet her for a good 30 minutes. She just purrs and slowly rotates around like a rotisserie chicken. If I stop before she is done, I get bit. My cat knows I'm her bitch.When she is ready she will get up and wait by her food bowl for me to feed her. I have about 30 seconds before the meows start, which get louder as they go on. When she is done it's back on my lap for more petting.This cat is the most lovable cat I've ever had. Before her, I was like a majority of people and thought cats weren't that affectionate. They would only come around a couple times a day and “reward” you by letting you pet them. They would sit and tolerate it for a few minutes before sleeping somewhere.Angel is with me anytime I'm home. If I get up and sit somewhere else she moves with me. She craves petting so much she wants to be around me so she never misses a chance.This is her now. She is mad that I haven't gone to bed yet so she gave up and curled up here.Why do people feel the urge to pet cats? It's more than an urge for me, I NEED to pet this cat. Maybe some of them feel the same way about their cat.Honestly, I wouldn't trust a person who could look at a cat this cute and not pet it.
Why would a cat meow at night with her toy in her mouth?
This is Madame Vastra. Vastra to her friends and family.Vastra is a little calico who came to us barely weaned after being fished out of a trashcan. She might well be at least part feral, but due to being rescued so early, she’s quite well-socialized, friendly and closely bonded to her family. Mostly me, for some reason.Every night, but rarely during the day, I’ll hear her familiar cry. Yep, Vastra has been hunting and caught something very exciting: a sparkly puffball.Oh, sure, sometimes it’ll be something else, like a catnip turtle or a furry tail or a jingly ball. But 99 times out of 100, it will be a sparkly puffball. She gets lots of praise because she’s super excited and proud of herself. Her whiskers are fairly bristling with the thrill of it, and her tail is sticking straight up. This cat is fairly exuding electricity.But it’s not over yet. She might bring another puffball or two to us over the course of the evening before bed, but it doesn’t end there. When we wake up, there’s almost inevitably sparkly puffball carnage in the hall outside the bedroom. Sometimes even a few strewn over the bed. You see, no matter how much attention Vastra gets for bringing us puffballs, it’s never quite enough. Either that, or she’s trying really, really hard to make sure those stupid humans of hers have adequate sparkly puffball supplies at all times.We clean up the puffball carnage like good cat parents, putting them all in a little plastic bucket, and that’s more or less where they stay until someone gets one out to play with her or she starts her nightly puffball parade.Why does she do it? She’s for sure bringing them to us, and she loves the attention she gets from it. She gets attention whenever she wants, though, so she doesn’t have to do it for attention (she also has a bad habit of sleeping on my pillow and purring in my face all night, but we won’t discuss that, will we Vastra???). I can only guess that she’s hunting and bringing us her kills. The cry she uses for her sparkly puffballs is unlike her ordinary meow, her trill, and every other noise she makes. It’s not unpleasant, but it’s definitely attention-getting.Regardless of why she brings us those puffballs, it’s clearly something she’s doing because she is attached to us and enjoys interacting with us. What’s not to love about that?
Why is the cat I rescued yesterday constantly licking me, meowing loudly if it's alone or not on top of me, and clenching its paws a lot?
It is afraid of being dumped again.It is also treating you as mother (you are feeding it, petting it, taking care of it), hence the extra desire to snuggle. It will like being anywhere it can hear your heart, and be warmed by being surrounded by arms.Like infants of all species, they find it reassuring.As the other poster said, take it to a vet. You will likely need to treat it for some parasites (infant kittens tend to get worms, which causes a bloated belly), fleas need to be eliminated (they will bite you too), as well as possible ear mites, and even possible tapeworms.One thing that can help with the kitten in a box is to take an old fashioned mechanical clock, wind it up, wrap it in some polar fleece, and put it in the box. The kitten will tend to snuggle into the polar fleece, and because it reflects heat rather well will sleep in a small nest of it (so leave a corner out, or shape it into a bowl). The clock then provides a rhythmic sound that can lull the kitten to sleep. You can even have a litter tray in the box, some water, and some kitten food (helps to use twist ties to anchor the water and food bowls to the box).This way if the kitten wakes up hungry in the middle of the night (VERY likely), it can get some food, and learn to use the litter tray. This will allow you to get a good nights sleep, and the kitten will still be able to get food frequently.The kitten may miss the litter tray, but what you do is pick the stool up… and put it in the litter tray and lightly sprinkle litter over it. This will give the kitten the idea that it is where it should do its toilet business. Might take a couple of days though - even a week.Play with it frequently.
What is the typical conversion rate for people proselytizing door to door?
LDS conversion rates in very poor countries are much better, because people can't just look on the internet to find out what the truth is, but retention rates are very poor. The LDS church has 50,000+ missionaries on the street. They claim 300,000 converts a year, but that includes people who convert from other sources, not just being found by missionaries. In Europe and the US, the rate is down to 1 or 2 people per missionary per year. My BIL had not a single baptism in his 2 years, and that is not unusual. Most converts leave within a year when they figure out what they really got into. Missionary work isn't about growth, it's about cementing the missionary to the church. That's one reason most missionaries are boys. They have a lower retention rate themselves in the church that the women.
Why does my cat meow like he's in distress after he catches a lizard?
Without hearing the meow and knowing your cat’s nuances, it’s hard to say for sure. But cats will often meow to their owners after a successful catch as a way of saying, “Look! Look what I caught! I want you to have it and acknowledge what an awesome hunter I am!”If you are sure your cat’s meows have an element of distress to them, it could be they are partly saying the above, but also adding “It’s not like a bird or rodent, so I don’t really know what to do now! I feel compelled to eat it, but I’m so confused because it’s…weird.”Either way, I would still give praise and pettings to the cat to show that you appreciate their contribution (whether you actually do or not). And then dispose of the kill, without your cat seeing where you put it. Your calm approval should soothe the cat and help to eliminate any distress about this situation.Just an educated guess! Good luck.
My cat won't sleep at night, please help?
I adopted this cat 2 months ago (today) from a shelter. She is now about one year old, and we are getting along just fine, except for one thing: sleeping at night! Sometimes, she doesn't sleep all night long, sometimes, if I'm lucky she'll sleep until 4-5 am and then she will start meowing, playing with her toys, jumping all over me. It all lasts for an hour (again, if I'm lucky) and then she goes quiet again. I'm a light sleeper and all that noise wakes me up, and it's really hard for me to fall asleep again. I always make sure she has enough food, fresh water and access to toilet. I even don't feed her much during day, but give her food before going to bed. Every evening before bed time, I play with her for an hour, to tire her for sleeping, but no use! I work from home, so I am home for most of a day, and whenever she wants to play or to cuddle I am available for it, so I can't really say she is lonely. And if I go out I leave a radio on, so she would at least hear some noise while I'm out. No, I don't have place for another cat (I live in an efficiency apartment) and please don't just tell me cats are nocturnal. I need some real advice or I will get fired as the quality of my work is rapidly deteriorating with the number of sleepless hours I spend every night. Thank you!
Why is my cat so cute?
Many societies have depended on stored food for most of each year. This includes societies in mid to high latitudes, and societies that depend on annual rains and floods. These include not coincidentally Egypt, where cats evolved from knee-high wild cats still found in north Africa.Even now, I read somewhere, rodents eat about a third of the food that people raise for themselves, and the situation would have been much worse with longer-term storage and primitive building. Therefore, cats were important to keep down the rodents.In any predator-prey relationship, the predators cannot reduce their prey to a very low level without another food supply. Rather, when the prey is reduced to low levels, the predators starve or go elsewhere. Therefore, cats could reduce rodents to a low level only if people fed them.Feeding cats was particularly important just before harvest, because then humans’ food supplies would be low and so would rodent numbers. But when the harvest came in, rodents would multiply much faster than cats would.For this reason, humans who fed cats prospered more than those who did not. While the above logic would motive this feeding, it would take more than logic to ensure that humans feed cats even when the humans are hungry. For this reason, humans evolved toward instinctively loving cats.Since cats benefited from this behavior, they evolved to stimulate it more, as Ryan Nelson has already explained. They had a head start (haha) because they have large eyes (from being nocturnal) and short muzzles, and that may have helped start their and our mutual evolution toward close relationship.