Are cats sneaky?

Of course they are! This is how they hunt. This is how they live.

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The Predator Peek is how a cat will slide the top of their head, ears held back, over a barrier, so that as little as possible of them is showing. This is how they watch birds from windows and mice from hiding. This is not learned behavior; cats who drank from a bottle and never hunted with their mother will still do the Predator Peek.

Sneaky lets a solitary creature use stealth and cunning to get dinner. Sneaky also means intelligence; sneaky doesn’t work, otherwise.

This is part of the Cat Package; the smarts, the cunning, the fun. Because cats play games this way, too. Hide & seek, tucking a toy under a throw rug, and losing their balls-with-bells under the fridge; it’s all part of sneaking up on things.

It activates their imagination, because they have to imagine all the different ways their prey could react to their attack. It strengthens their conceptual abilities, because they need to visualize plans. It enhances their logical reasoning, as they work out possible combinations of different actions.

This makes cats quiet and clean and trainable; all wonderful attributes for a pet to have.

So when people complain they don’t like cats because they’re “sneaky,” I just laugh. This is an incredible and useful feature; not a bug.

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