cosmictuesdays:
bmouse:
Ok ok but has anyone considered the relative size of cats compared to dwarves? They must seem huge! A dwarf having a pet cat would be sort of like Katherine Hepburn having that pet leopard in “Bringing Up Baby!” Basically what I’m saying is more dwarves with pet cats (maybe on little gold leashes) please and kthx.
Cats with saddlebags.
Cats raised by hand from kittenhood to facilitate training, and increase bonding and loyalty with their owners.
Cats a better animal for life in underground spaces because they can navigate in minimal levels of light just as well as the dwarves.
Cats doing what cats have always done, which is get rid of small pests by eating them, which makes them so useful the dwarves can’t even say.
Cats dwarves can’t ride, but bond with and care for and snuggle with at the end of the day.
Mostly cats with saddlebags.
I WANT THIS.
Dude, a small wildcat would be a serviceable steed for a dwarf, too.
Domestic cats for guarding food stores and helping to carry things in their little kitty saddlebags, and keeping their dwarves warm with lots of snuggles. Cats for the regular working joes, and for families. And then your warrior dwarves with their stocky, fierce lynx companions. Either works as a companion to hunters, leaving the caves for the forests— the cats always feel at a bit of a loss when stalking prey with dwarven hunters, with how much noise they make… but they make the best of the situation, they do their best to demonstrate proper technique.
Elves shocked that such silent, graceful creatures love the company of dwarves so, when they really do seem an elvish animal. Elves pouting when their own pet cats flock to visiting dwarven dignitaries, purring and chirruping and being very interested in all the smells of the dwarves’ cats that cling to their cloaks.
Yesss <3333333 all of that.