# "If I fits, I sits **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 13, 2021, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-fits-i-sits/942023 "2021-05-13T17:13:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-fits-i-sits/942023/21 "2021-05-14T12:12:49Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > Immy was such a failure. I don’t think she ever sat in a box. Not a failure at all. Very catlike behavior. Every cat does something people think of cats as not doing. Not all the same thing, of course; that would make it just another Thing That Cats Do. They each have to pick something different. Most of them pick something active, like eating asparagus or coffee beans, or going swimming. Your Immy reversed it, and picked “Not Sitting In Boxes.” ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-fits-i-sits/942023/22 "2021-05-14T12:25:57Z")
My current cat, Allie (aka the Princess) loves boxes. Her predecessor, Felix, hated any form of confinement (other than snuggling with humans). ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-fits-i-sits/942023/23 "2021-05-14T23:59:43Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > > [@kitap](#): > > > > Immy was such a failure. I don’t think she ever sat in a box. > > Not a failure at all. Very catlike behavior. Every cat does something people think of cats as not doing. Not all the same thing, of course; that would make it just another Thing That Cats Do. They each have to pick something different. > > Most of them pick something active, like eating asparagus or coffee beans, or going swimming. Your Immy reversed it, and picked “Not Sitting In Boxes.” I would have thought her unkitty behavior was adoring the kennel. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2021, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-fits-i-sits/942023/24 "2021-05-15T01:19:09Z")
Being a cat, she figured she’d pick two if she wanted to. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2021, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-fits-i-sits/942023/25 "2021-05-15T02:16:22Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Being a cat, she figured she’d pick two if she wanted to True. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2021, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-fits-i-sits/942023/26 "2021-05-15T13:42:17Z")
What a relief. From the thread title I thought this was going to be about toilet seats. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2021, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-fits-i-sits/942023/27 "2021-05-15T16:47:05Z")
Okay folks, because this is the SDope, I feel obligated to share with you a link to a more detailed account of this study. I share this with you because it contains a quote about a revolutionary and important issue which affects the scientific validity of the study, and which we Dopers must analyze in order to be true to ourselves as Seekers of the Truth. Quote: > [@](#): > > Professor Blake notes that because cats are so short and close to the ground, they might have seen the shapes on the floor from an angle that made the cats less likely to perceive … in the same way that much taller people do. That’s right, my fellow Dopers: it takes a PhD degree to figure out that cats are short and close to the ground, unlike people who (gasp!) are “much taller”. 🙂 > **[Cats Take 'If I Fits I Sits' Seriously, Even If The Space Is Just An Illusion](https://www.npr.org/2021/05/10/994262792/cats-take-if-i-fits-i-sits-seriously-even-if-the-space-is-just-an-illusion)** > > If you've spent any time around cats, you've seen them curl up in cozy spaces. A new study on feline cognition shows that they also like to sit in snug squares created by a kind of optical illusion. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2021, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-fits-i-sits/942023/28 "2021-05-16T02:35:19Z")
No, there’s an h in that title. Easy to miss, though. Or not. 😅 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-fits-i-sits/942023.md?page=1)