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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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02/04/2015 8:11:48 AM PST
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Jack Hydrazine
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To: C19fan
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.....
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02/04/2015 8:15:18 AM PST
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To: Snickering Hound
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02/04/2015 8:15:19 AM PST
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Jack Hydrazine
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02/04/2015 8:15:45 AM PST
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deoetdoctrinae
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To: C19fan
Ninja cat is not amused by this lame study!
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02/04/2015 8:16:22 AM PST
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Jack Hydrazine
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To: C19fan
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02/04/2015 8:19:39 AM PST
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Envisioning
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To: C19fan
To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
Cat? What cat?
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02/04/2015 8:31:22 AM PST
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02/04/2015 8:34:48 AM PST
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To: C19fan
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02/04/2015 8:42:08 AM PST
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Albion Wilde
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To: Snickering Hound
Gotta love the dogs, just watching.
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02/04/2015 8:52:46 AM PST
by
zeugma
(The act of observing disturbs the observed.)
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.
To: Albion Wilde
That one is truly disturbing.
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02/04/2015 9:17:35 AM PST
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no-s
(when democracy is displaced by tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote)
To: C19fan
Did anybody bother just asking the cat?
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02/04/2015 9:27:33 AM PST
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To: Slings and Arrows
Other than sleep and collect dust, my cat doesn’t do any of that stuff other cats do.......
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02/04/2015 11:34:32 AM PST
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02/04/2015 12:06:20 PM PST
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CatherineofAragon
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