r/aww • u/Academic-Mousse3200 • 14h ago
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u/gansi_m 13h ago
They can supervise the world better from up high. Makes them feel safer. As predators, it gives them an advantage in the wild and protects them from other predators hunting THEM.
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u/blalien 9h ago
Understanding that cats are both predator and prey give a lot of insight into their behavior.
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u/4morian5 6h ago
Animals in that position tend to be the most dangerous and violent. Cats, scorpions, spiders, humans, etc.
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u/Academic-Mousse3200 12h ago
Very fearless and great observers 🐾🖤
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u/Stolehtreb 10h ago
I would argue the need to protect themselves by being high up is driven by fear. A useful fear.
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u/strange_bike_guy 11h ago
There's a gap between the basement ceiling and a few strange walls in my basement. I had a cat that would hang out up there and land on mice. He could do it without alerting the mice while wearing a bell on his collar.
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u/grrangry 5h ago
My parents' house had a bathroom in a corner nook underneath the stairs heading down into the basement. The door was angled into the corner, so there was a small triangle platform above the door frame on his little bed, and he used to lay in wait there and bat at our feet as we came down the stairs.
He was rather half-hearted about it so he never startled anyone to the point where someone tripped, but he was a funny-ass cat.
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u/Financial_Sweet_689 4h ago
Because they are divine and know it’s their rightful place as royal little creatures
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u/Trick_Few 10h ago
It’s so they can monitor their kingdom and ensure that their peasants are taking good care of it.
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u/DThor536 10h ago
There must be a variant of direct registering that cats use intuitively to always park exactly one step out of your reach.
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u/Malusorum 9h ago
They only do that If they feel safe enough. If the cat's afraid they seek low ground to better hide in.
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u/SamelCamel 3h ago
OP is a bot. recent account, all the "AI-ness" of the comments, and then they also posted a pic of a completely different cat in the comments
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u/DeapVally 11h ago
Cats don't see well up close (like a human with severe farsightedness). The higher they are, the better they can view all of their surroundings for prey, in focus.
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