What animal are you most like and why?

I think I am like a hedgehog. I can appear prickly on the outside, but I curl up in a ball to protect my soft underbelly.

Also, I’m cute.

MIlo here; I am sleek and smart and sneaky as a cat.

I’m a free spirited wild horse, you can’t corral me, try to put a saddle on me or even think about tossing a rope around my neck or I will drag you, kicking and screaming into the next county. I might take a lump of sugar out of your hand but don’t mistake that for being tame. lol

My husband says I am a cow. Graze during the day, rest, no hurry about anything.

I’m ok with the cow comparison, except I think I like to be more spontaneous than a cow, more playful. Maybe it should be a more agile animal?

Kind of a cross between Winnie the Pooh and the Big Bad Wolf.

No one ever said it was easy.

@JLeslie Longhorn’s are pretty agile, tough and hearty.

When I was young, I had a cat named Patches.

She was almost everything you’d expect a housecat to be. Mistrusting, mischievous, liked to slink around corners, and always on the lookout for some good food.

However, she was clumsy as hell though she pretended to be as agile and graceful as her brother Lucifer, and had really poor eyesight. She ultimately gave her life to save Lucifer from a few stray dogs that wandered into our yard. The image of Patches jumping off the porch roof onto those two dogs, and Lucifer scampering up the tree… it’ll be burned in my mind forever.

I’m just like Patches.

A cat, I guess, because I have always been very limber. I am almost 60 and can still scratch my nose with my knee, and sit indian-style.

Need you ask?

@Adirondackwannabe I think it is interesting I wrote agile, when in real life I now have so many physical problems, including muscle problems that limit me to some extent. But in my mind I am still the dancer, the climb up a tree, swing on the swings, and jump from high heights, person. She just got old I guess, or had some bad luck with her health. Maybe I am a monkey. My dad used to say that.

@JLeslie My parents always called us monkeys too.

Today I am a tortoise, just going to crawl into my shell. And hide!

At the moment I feel like a grizzly bear that just got hit in the ass with a tranquilizer dart… Just got back from lunch and a 25 minute nap….

A fuck billed twattypuss, because i’m unique & i’m a good swimmer & stuff.
A big bad pooh, hmmm…....seems like @CWOTUS should seek medical advice.

@janbb Interesting. Is that the same as always calling the children the kinder and using words like nosh?

A mouse, night-active, pointy nose, very shy ;)

I think you’ve made a different assumption about the cross than I intended, @ucme. I’m more of a cheerful, happy-go-lucky, bumbling carnivore. But I don’t like hunney.

A river otter. Small, active, darts around constantly (I can’t sit still), loves being in the water, playful but can be shy.

@marinelife you took my hedgehog! I think I want to cross breed a hedge hog with a dodo bird.
(don’t ask)

@rosehips That sounds like a large flightless prickly mess. Got to ask why.

A dead slug because I’m lazy.

Sea otter. Love to float around on the water, banging open abalones on my stomach. Completely agile under water. Curious. Friendly. Fun-loving. No apparent worries.

@Adirondackwannabe Hrm you’re contrary!
Hedgehogs are nocturnal have interesting self defense mechanism that actuatlly physically hurt themselves and generally never intentionally others. They are cautious, and need to establish a trust before exposing themselves. A dodo bird because I really want to fly. Feel like I was meant to but know I never truly will. Also because I am more or less unecessary. A dead silly breed that will never flourish but everyone is too pc to condemn to death.

It would have to be a bird because of the singing, but I’m not a soloist. I think a cedar waxwing. It’s a sleek good looking bird with a crest and a white trimmed back mask. It has decorative bits of yellow and red on its tail and wings. Cedar waxwings are special too because they care for each other. If there is a line of them, they pass food down the line for the next bird. If one is injured or dies, another will stand watch.
I dress simply concentrating on using color highlights. I also believe in a cooperative helping society. I do not, however, wear a mask.

An octopus. I’m intelligent, reclusive and just blend into the background when I don’t want to be around people.

@sunny2 Very beautiful. @uberbatman You just want to shoot ink at everybody. nudge
@Adirondackwannabe despite all your input you have yet to name your animal of choice.

shhh don’t let em on to my plan :P

Cat. Temperament and quirks.

@rosehips Oh wow, I loved your hedgehog dodo bird answer. That was beautiful.
Okay, I want to be a mostly vegetarian falcon. Able to swoop down at incredible speed and kill if necessary, but choosing not to. A fighter pilot with a heart.

I am convinced that I am a cat. Very introverted and used to my own company. Cautious, deliberate, and I live for routine, but know how to be spontaneous when needed. Can be the center of attention for brief moments, but I prefer to observe. Also I’m super lazy and hedonistic, haha. Love the catnip. And I love naps and being scratched! But I also get lonely quickly and long for company and touch.

And I will seduce any cat I meet. I know how to talk their language.

I am also a cat. I am very inquisitive. Can be a bit full of my own self-importance on occasions. Love to cuddle and be cuddled. Love being stroked and pampered. Like to choose when I will be with people and also like to be alone at times. I am intelligent and like to investigate new things. If you rub me the wrong way, I can bring out my claws. I will usually get over it fairly quickly though.

@Bellatrix : There seem to be a lot of cat-people in academia, I’ve noticed ;)

@bookish1 This is kind of disturbing to me. A) I am in academia. B) I really don’t like cats. Not one bit. Kind of a cosmic joke, I guess.

@wundayatta I always thought you were a bit of an “ass.” lol ;-)
Hee Haw, wanna carrot?

@wundayatta : I didn’t mean that one must like cats to be in academia! Plenty of my colleagues are dog people… I guess I just meant that there are a lot of curious introverts (cat-like people) in academia.

And lots of extrovert ‘cat-like people’. I’m most definitely an extrovert but I have cats that if I had to ‘pigeon hole’ I would say were extroverts. Strange concept – pigeon holing a cat. Feathers will fly.

I have no idea.
So, I took a test online and it said that I am most like an elephant, because elephants are good communicators and good listeners – and also they seem to value connections. Elephants are very emotionally intelligent, and have been observed mourning their dead, which feels suiting to my personality as well.
I may be biased, since elephants are my favorite animals, but I liked it and I think I’ll keep it. :)

@DigitalBlue Beautiful answer. Yeah, that captures your personality. :)

Okay, @DigitalBlue, the next question to you is Where is that test?

I can’t wait to see others’ results from that test.

The big, bad wolf don’t take no online personality tests. Pooh is intrigued.

@Coloma Only a “bit?”

Actually, I find cats to be very annoyingly curious. They won’t leave you alone. Just last night, a new kitten of a neighbor just marched across our freshly painted back deck, dainty as you please. Why do people let kittens wander around the outdoors in an urban environment? Do they not want to see them again?

Cats, it seems to me, are way too friendly. Far worse than dogs, who will go away if you tell them to. Cats just don’t know when to leave it alone. It’s like they want trouble.

To me, that is quite extroverted. Cats just won’t leave me alone, and since I don’t like them, they make it worse. Plus they have all that awful sticky fur and furballs and they make you itch and sneeze.

Obviously, there are cat people. But the longer I live, the more it seems that me and cat people just don’t really get along. My wife says she likes cats, but since she is allergic to them, she doesn’t want them around. This is somewhat confusing to me. And not really relevant to the topic, so I will stop.

Oh, hell, @wundayatta. I probably shouldn’t say this out loud or in public, but you’re most interesting sometimes at your most irrelevant.

I’m still hoping that @DigitalBlue will come back to the thread and give us that test link. I’m starting to suspect that I may be a three-way cross between the Big, Bad Wolf, Winnie the Pooh… and an octopus. Or a spider. Or maybe a five-way cross between all four of those and an ass, as well. Or a dog. Okay, then, a six-way cross. Winnie needs that link. The rest of us could care less – not.

Or a goose…..nothing like an adoring 2.5 foot tall guy with a big orange knob to bring out my fowlish passions. lol

@CWOTUS here is a test

According to that test I am a lion. So, my cat suggestion was spot on. Not quite the sort of cat I meant and I don’t agree all the lion traits suit me, but as per the Barnum Effect, many of them do.

This test says I’m a crocodile.

Ooh – go know! Took the test and turns out I am an otter. Will need to turn in my tuxedo!

Hey, the the test says I’m an owl or a wolf.

Wildcat for me.

It said I’m a beaver. Shut up.

I tried one version and was labeled a bat.

So, I took it again and was, much happier, designated a penguin.

The next time my wife asks, “are you a man or a mouse?” I shall direct her to the result of that test, should wipe the sarcastic grin from her gob.

@gailcalled I knew we were related!

@Seek_Kolinahr I really did LOL.

Then I read @gailcalled‘s response and snorted.

Apparently, I am a cross between a crocodile and a penguin. Which seems odd, I suppose, since crocs are cold-blooded and penguins have to be pretty warm-blooded. I guess if the croc and penguin can be okay widdat, then so can I.

^^Which animals snort? Pigs, horses, deer, bulls. I like wart hogs, myself.

Crocodile/otter. Now I have to get off that stupid list I had to sign up for.

Are you talking about the quiz? I didn’t have to sign up for anything…

The test said I was a bat. Go figure lol

The test said I was a prairie dog. What the hayll…. Just because I’m an introvert and don’t like to compete.
And I am kinky, thank you very much internet test!

^^^ Well..as long as you aren’t panicing whenever you see a hawk fly over. lol

After long thought I have decided that I am a kitten with a Walter Mitty complex. He thinks he’s a lion!! only in his dreams can he be as feirce and magnificent as he wants to be!

The test, however, said I was a crocodile.