01
Warm places
Sunlight, radiators, laptops and anything else that has been occupied by a human five seconds ago.
AN OBSERVATION / NOT A SCIENTIFIC STUDY
Cats love it.
We don't know why.
Whatever "it" is, cats seem to have made up their minds. This site documents the evidence.
$ cat status
subject: cat
state: sleeping
location: probably somewhere
interest: unknown
recent activity:
stared at wall
ignored human
entered box
current opinion:
it
status:
APPROVEDTHE OBSERVATION
There are things cats consistently approve of.
02
Boxes
The larger the object, the smaller the box required to make it immediately more interesting.
03
Attention
Especially when the attention is currently directed somewhere else.
“The cat has already decided. The rest of us are still collecting data.”
— field observation 004
RECENT NOTES
Evidence collected so far.
FIELD NOTE 001
The keyboard incident
A perfectly comfortable chair was available. The cat selected the keyboard.
Read note → FIELD NOTE 002The box was empty
This appeared to be irrelevant. The cat entered anyway.
Read note → FIELD NOTE 003Activity at 04:00
No obvious reason was identified. The cat considered the matter closed.
Read note →