A dog is not the opposite of a cat

The opposite of a cat is the absence of a cat ☝️

There are several domestic cat breeds known for loving water; one is the Bengal.

will never knock your favorite coffee mug off your desk,

I once shared a house with someone who had a fish that would thrash around in its tank so violently it would knock things off the cabinet it was on and get water all over the floor (I had no involvement in the care of the fish, but I think its tank was too small).

Not a goldfish, but still..

Depending on circumstances and how much you have pissed off said goldfish it could potentially knock your coffee mug over.

If it does you should feel ashamed of yourself though

How do you know you’re not allergic? Have you ever rubbed one over your most delicate parts?

...when i was in second grade i wrote a book report on chocolate fever, in which the climax involved the protagonist taking vanilla pills, which were so obviously the opposite of chocolate to my eight-year-old perspective, but which no adults with whom i discussed the book found at all obvious...

I seem to remember a youtube video from years ago explaining how things can be opposites in different ways, like glue is the opposite of scissors because of the use, red is the opposite of blue because of what they represent, etc.

I didn't. I was like huh there is no opposite of cat, then read the title, then got even more confused... How does anyone think the answer is dog?

The opposite of cat is "inside-out cat".

I laughed like a little kid at this

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I'd say everything has several opposites, each in a different aspect.

If we're following bizzaro world logic, the opposite of anything is the version that's stupid, or if you're stupid, then smart.

I imagine bizarro me is teaching physics in a prestigious university.

Humans (like most living things) like to put things in boxes to make navigating their environment simpler. Temperatures aren't really opposites because they're on a continuum, but we talk about hot and cold as opposites to bring order to environmental navigation. The same with presence and absence of light and bright/dark. So, extending this logic, the opposite of cat is the absence of cat, but that doesn't really make sense. If you cut a cat in half, are you halfway on a continuum from cat to the opposite of cat? If the cat is whole but has died, is it cat, opposite of cat, something else entirely? I have no idea, and no one else really does either. Brains are weird.

uʍop dark-cat

Pretty sure that's the answer to the anti life equation... nobody tell darkseid (ﾟﾛﾟ)

There are many answers questions the judges will accept, but only one correct answer question!

(Also happy cake day!)

cat is for concatenating files, so the opposite would be something that breaks a stream up into multiple files.

How about tac which prints lines but last to first.

It prints to stdout. I’d say the opposite is read, which reads from stdin.

Hmm, maybe pwd?

pwd Print Working Directory

Not much, what's up with you?

"What'S SUP"

Sure a better clue if you don't want the joke to work

So the desired response is, "What is "what is up dog?"?"?

Didn't they have one where the correct response was "what is wuzzzzzup?" 🤔

!cat

I'd say mouse as there are many manic cat mouse duos like Itchy and Scratchy

The opposite of cat is cat.

The opposite of cat is >

The opposite of a cat is dark energy.

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I was about to say how the host reads the questions to the contestants and that sounds to me like they ask the question.

Then I remembered this is Jeopardy! we're talking about and you are correct.

You need to phrase it as a question

Should be an inside out cat, with its insides on the outside and emptiness inside