If reincarnation exists, I don't think I would like to come back as a cat. Don't get me wrong, cats live pretty sweet lives. They lay around all day sleeping, licking themselves, and occasionally pouncing on things and eating them. It certainly beats coming back as a tapeworm or dung beetle.
That being said, cats are missing a pretty major thing that brings me joy nearly every day of my life. Cats do not have the ability to taste sweetness. Both wild and domestic felines have lost the ability to taste sugars, which is probably either the cause or result of their almost totally carnivorous lifestyle. Even other "true" carnivores in the order Carnivora (bears, dogs, seals, weasels, raccoons, pandas, etc.) usually eat a larger proportion of vegetable matter than cats. Most bears for example, with the exception of polar bears, actually eat mostly vegetable matter. But how tasty is an apple, some berries, or a mushroom, if you cant taste sweetness? Probably not very.
Did you know that chocolate is just as toxic to cats as it is to dogs? How come people never mention cats when they warn you about chocolate then? If I had to guess, I'd say it's probably because unsweetened chocolate tastes about as delicious as orange pith, so cats really aren't interested.
So, you can bring me back as a cute little otter, a sloth bear, or a raccoon dog, but not a cat thank you very much.
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