[CAT] "What to make of cats"

[rfmcdonald]

I quite like Stephen Baker's post at The Numerati on his cats. They're special creatures, these.

But here's what's special about them. They're cats. They're animals that spend their whole lives with us and remain total mysteries. They have the body parts of miniature lions and tigers. They're beasts, albeit domesticated ones. They carry out extravagent licking rituals. They pretend not to hear us when we call. One of them snores. They are every bit as successful from a Darwinian point of view as we are: 21st century survivors. Most interestingly, they live with us. So what merits attention isn't that they're special animals, but rather that animals are special, and two of them share their mysterious ways with us.