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Day: February 26, 2019

Posted on February 26, 2019

Why We Think Cats Are Psychopaths – The Atlantic

It’s just “resting cat face.”
— Read on www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/cat-psychopaths/583192/

How true those words are, even to-day!

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