Cats are just about tied with dogs for pet popularity in America. They’re everyone’s favorite troublemakers. Their strange and mysterious ways baffle us and endear them to us. Dogs come with a host of predictable behaviors, like loyalty and fetching. Cats are a stranger animal for sure. If you’ve never lived with a cat, or been away from them for a while, you’ll notice some strange things they tend to do. It makes you wonder just how sinister the feline population actually is.
1. Biding Their Time
Cats are predators by nature. They hunt, have killing claws, and sharp reflexes & teeth. They turned these traits into something more adapted for the modern world. Instead of stalking pray through their territory, they stalk human behavior. They know when you’re most vulnerable. Rest assured, if you’re sitting down to eat or relax, or are anywhere near food, that is when they’ll corner you, begging for a meal. They take time to cherry pick your moments of weakness.
2. Obsessive Behaviors
Cats are also neurotic. They keep track of their belongings with obscene measurement. They have to keep up their svelte appearance at all times. If a new object is introduced to their environment, they tend to lose their kitty cat cool. It might stem from them being formerly big game hunters reduced to house pets. It might just be a personality disorder that humans perpetuate. Either way, cats love to have things their way and stress out non stop if anything what soever is out of line from what they want.
3. Chattiness
Cats are naturally silent creatures, usually of the night. They only meow in the way we know in the presence of humans. Why? Aside from the popular theory that they are mocking us, it likely stems from them adopting our method of communication. They see everyone in their world making funny sounds, so they do the same. You’re not crazy for meowing back at your cat. They love to make meows whenever they want something, like food or being let through a door. Cats aren’t shy in making their demands clear.
4. Other Noises
Cats aren’t always so silent, besides the meowing. They cause a lot of racket. On their person, there’s the sounds of them licking/grooming themselves, the sounds they make purring, and the sounds they make when mad at stuff, like a rumbling hissing noise. They also like to play with anything they find on the ground, from milk caps to tin foil balls. There’s always the sounds of scurrying. Plus, they knock over anything on a shelf that they want. They push over TVs, vases, picture frames, you name it. Cats are contained chaos.
5. The Fake Snake
Cats have a lot of behaviors they stole from snakes. The standing theory is that modern domesticated cats came about in ancient Egypt. Egypt has snakes as a natural predator, and cats took notice. Wen a cat hisses, it’s imitating the sound of a snake. The same for when a cat flattens its ears against its head and lays close to the floor. The snake imitation helped to drive off unknowing predators back in its wild days, and the practice continues today. So if you have a cat and sometimes think you see a snake, it’s one and the same creature.
6. The Emotional Roller Coaster
Cats have a love-hate relationship with everything, especially you. They will spend hours sleeping in your lap, only to turn and claw your leg to pieces for no reason. The family chair may get shredded without provocation. Two fighting cats may become best friends the next day. Cats are just hard to read. You never know where you stand with them, and that’s part of the fun of ownership. Never trust a cat fully. You have to wait for a cat to come to you if you really want to show it any affection, and that’ a perplexing case.
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