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Why DO cats love boxes? Scientists say it could be predatory behaviour
UK Daily Mail ^ | February 4, 2015 | Ellie Zolfagharifard

Posted on 02/04/2015 6:35:29 AM PST by C19fan

Large boxes, shoe boxes, and even just items that look like boxes – cats, it seems, can't resist squeezing into cardboard spaces. Scientists say they haven't fully understood why our feline friends have an affinity for boxes, but they have a number of theories. The most popular is that cats are instinctively drawn to boxes because they offer security and shelter from predators while they stalk their prey.

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TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: boxes; cats; ififitsisits; kittyping
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21 posted on 02/04/2015 8:11:48 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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Years ago, my Granny would make Tea Cakes for me to take home. I loved to eat them and would ration them, so how the cat got one of them away from me I don't know.

I noticed 'Sam' was batting something around on the hardwood floor, chase it and then hit it across the room. When I picked it up it was a Tea Cake... He didn't eat it , just liked the way it smelled.....

22 posted on 02/04/2015 8:15:18 AM PST by virgil283 (Those Horse-Ridin', Fiddle-Playin', Book-Readin', Gun-Totin' men Who Started America..)
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23 posted on 02/04/2015 8:15:19 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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24 posted on 02/04/2015 8:15:45 AM PST by deoetdoctrinae (Gun-free zones are playgrounds for felons.)
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Ninja cat is not amused by this lame study!
25 posted on 02/04/2015 8:16:22 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: C19fan

For later.


26 posted on 02/04/2015 8:19:39 AM PST by Envisioning (My desire to be well informed is at odds with my desire to remain sane....)
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27 posted on 02/04/2015 8:27:27 AM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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28 posted on 02/04/2015 8:29:10 AM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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Cat? What cat?

29 posted on 02/04/2015 8:31:22 AM PST by csvset
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30 posted on 02/04/2015 8:34:48 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away)
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31 posted on 02/04/2015 8:42:08 AM PST by Albion Wilde (It is better to offend a human being than to offend God.)
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Gotta love the dogs, just watching.

32 posted on 02/04/2015 8:52:46 AM PST by zeugma (The act of observing disturbs the observed.)
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To: C19fan

It took scientists and research to come up with this “theory”?

Who doesn’t know this?

Man, those people need to get out more.


33 posted on 02/04/2015 9:04:34 AM PST by AFreeBird
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To: Albion Wilde

That one is truly disturbing.


34 posted on 02/04/2015 9:17:35 AM PST by no-s (when democracy is displaced by tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote)
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To: C19fan

Did anybody bother just asking the cat?


35 posted on 02/04/2015 9:27:33 AM PST by moovova
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36 posted on 02/04/2015 11:05:14 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("Ragnarok" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L5nD7-qsEw)
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Other than sleep and collect dust, my cat doesn’t do any of that stuff other cats do.......


37 posted on 02/04/2015 11:34:32 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (Man of "non-color" and proud of it)
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38 posted on 02/04/2015 12:06:20 PM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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Maru’s big brudder, you betcha.


39 posted on 02/04/2015 12:11:31 PM PST by Slings and Arrows ("Ragnarok" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L5nD7-qsEw)
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There you go!


40 posted on 02/04/2015 12:18:58 PM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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