Why Cats Look At You That Way

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I've noticed that our cat Mike has a habit of looking at his human servants as if we were completely fricking insane As if lobsters were crawling out of our ears and dancing jigs. A reasonable enough thing to do, I suppose, but how does he KNOW? I've thought about it a bit, and I've come up with a theory.

Whenever any of us eat anything, Mike has to know what it is. He'll walk right over to you and carefully sniff it. We are eating it, so it must be meat, right? But all to frequently, it is not meat. It is popcorn or bread or a cookie, or a vegetable of some kind. He sniffs whatever we drink to see if it's edible as well. It never is, but he has to know.

Being a carnivore, I'm sure that the smells Mike smells tells him pretty much the same thing that the smell of cardboard, wooden planks, paper or plastic forks tells us: "This is inedible. Eating it will do you no good whatever. Do not bite!"

But Mike, being a cat, has no idea about carnivores and omnivores, symbiotic bacteria in digestive systems and whatnot. He only knows that his humans, although they regularly eat good, wholesome meat (giving far too little of it to him) also eat things that are clearly inedible.

And of course, there's your insanity. We chew on things that are clearly not meant to be eaten, and eat it, and show every sign of enjoying eating it. We are clearly crazy. Case closed!