cat mystery of the day

[brinker]

How do 8 month old kittens, with very sharp teeth and claws, know instinctively what to attack.  In other words, you've been sitting still playing with the kitten with a string as an attempt to distract it from attacking your hands/arms/feet/legs/anything else it can reach.  You finally stop playing with the string to go do something else, and it

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[brinker]

Oh, I'm well aware. Trust me, I'm aware. :) It is, of course, why we think kittens are cute. (Which is a good thing, because if it weren't the case, we'd probably want to strangle them.)

I do wonder how they can single out an unmoving object far away from the rest of you and still know that it's attached to you and thus worth attacking.