Interesting.

[bladespark]

I was reading an old rant of Ursula's, (great artist, amusing writer,) and she pointed out something. I've always thought that the neatest thing about being able to be an animal, after the fur (mmmmmmmm, fur) would be the enhanced senses. Better smell, better hearing, all that. She points out, however, that you'd lose almost all of your sense of touch, most of your visual sensitivity (unless you turn into a bird of prey, and then you have a brain the size of a peanut, and have other problems,) and almost all of your sense of taste. Ever wonder how a cat can stand to lick itself in certain places? The cat can barely taste it, that's how.

I'm not one of those people who longs to be animal instead of human. I want shape-shifting so I can try it out and then go back after. But this is one more thing on the list of reasons why being stuck as an actual feline, rather than the cat-girl I really am, would suck.