The prospect of filing the #s is part of what drives me to write OCFic & Elsewhere Fic. Everyone else is deep, deep, DEEP into the known parts of Fandom Park - setting, characters, known plot - while I’m out here in the Fandom Parking Lot (Game of Thrones, Aisle 37, Row B) planning my escape. 😜

Going vibes again. It's a "get out of the way" day. Poor Ben.

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Bones: Dammit, Jim. What were you thinking?

Jim: Well, everyone else on Risa was wearing a top with a boob window, so…

The Fountain. What a film! ❤️

I miss you dearly, Carl. ❤️ I was ten when your show first aired. I was utterly riveted.

But , of the many groups in question, cats and dogs were the most familiar to the Europeans inventing these naming schemes, so that’s what stuck. Caniforms could just as accurately be called mustelidiforms and viverridiform is no more or less accurate than feliform.

When you split them along those lines, as we do, the cats fall on one side and the dogs on the other, each with several other closely related groups.

In feliforms, it’s double-chambered with a septum. In caniforms it’s single chambered or partially divided.

Same reason we refer to the two sides of Carnivora as feliform (form of cat) and caniform (form of dog), when “catness” and “dogness” is not what separates the two groups, but rather the shape of the auditory bullae, the bony structure that encloses the middle and inner ear.

Familiarity when drawing comparison. Note the same thing happens with “dog” and “puppy” in decidedly non-canine lineages. And within flora, there are any number of “apples” that are not remotely apples, but I’ve never once seen an "orange" that wasn’t a true actual citrus.