Cats are jerks

Isabeau · Dec 6, 2023

“Mregh Hray! Mregh Hray!”
He’s lucky his face is still intact.

Isabeau · Dec 9, 2023

Help with the hard to reach places.

CronoCloud Creeggan · Dec 9, 2023

Isabeau said:
“Mregh Hray! Mregh Hray!”
He’s lucky his face is still intact.

but mreh-meh, meh-eh isn't a friendly sound! It's the sound used when a momma cat is being annoyed by an older kitten and is about to bop them on the head.

Caete · Dec 11, 2023

Free · Dec 13, 2023

Cat yoga.

Maglink

Caete · Dec 15, 2023

Isabeau · Dec 15, 2023

Free · Dec 17, 2023

Yes, some cats like to play fetch. It’s science!

Cats play fetch longer, with more retrievals, when they initiate the game.

arstechnica.com

Cats have a well-deserved reputation for being independent-minded and aloof, preferring to interact with humans on their own quirky terms. So you'd never see a cat playing fetch like a dog, right? Wrong. That sort of play behavior is more common than you might think—one of our cats was an avid fetcher in her younger years, although she's slowed down a bit with age. However, the evidence to date for specific fetching behaviors in cats is largely anecdotal.

That's why a team of British scientists set out to study this unusual feline play behavior more extensively, reporting their findings in a new paper published in the journal Scientific Reports. The researchers concluded that most cats who like to play fetch learned how to do so without any explicit training and that cats are generally in control when playing fetch with their humans. Specifically, cats will play fetch longer and retrieve the thrown object more times when they initiate the game rather than their owners. In other words, cats are still gonna be cats.