laughs I knew it! Cats have ADD!
…so what happens if you put kitty on Ritalin?
Listening to the termites?
Kitties can see through walls. They’re actually watching something several blocks away.
Don’t think so. They know their way around very very well. That means they have a mental map of where things are. They know whether or not they have food left in their bowl and will go back for it. That means object permanence.
Better yet, what if you put kitty on 10 Ritalins? :eek:
[Monty Python: Confuse-a-Cat]
Your cat needs to be confused.
[/Monty Python]
When you are asleep. they keep watch of their territory(your home) and see to it no one or thing is trying to steal or eat their property(that’s you and all of your stuff).
They’ re thinking about lunch.
Our cat only comes in at night to sleep in the garage so most of the time spent “doing nothing” is spent viewing his territory from a vantage point. Maybe having the freedom to roam helps alleviate the boredom or what ever it is that makes some kitties stare at the wall.
You might also ask the age old question, “Why does a dog lick his (insert you own noun, czarcasm’s had a piece of me already this week)?” 
Because he can.
actually what people dont know is that cats are secretly the greates mathematicians in the universe. They had to develop this skill while calculating trajectories for leaping on passing birds and the occational human ankle. This simple trajectory calculus resulted in the evolution of a mind capable of calculating pi to 10 000 decimal places without the use of machines.
When a cat is “staring at the wall” they are actually calculating the probability curve of every atom in the paint for fun and as the equivalent of mental weightlifting.
(with appologies to terry pratchett )
One of my cats is either asleep, looking to us for attention, or running around like a maniac, playing with toys and generally getting into trouble.
The other cat is either asleep, looking to us for attention or watching for the other cat to try and play with her, something she hates with a burning passion.
My cat doesn’t. He wakes me up between 3 and 5 AM so that I can show him that he has food left. Does the same thing a couple times a day.
Which reminds me,
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What’s the deal with my cat refusing to eat his food until you turn the bowl around. He watches you do this; is the thought process, oh! the food’s in a slightly different position than before, it must be fresh! ?
Nope. The thing about animals getting lazy when you spay/neuter them is utter crap. What tends to happen is that people get the animal fixed, then a couple months later it outgrows its baby bursts of energy, and the owners say, “See, I told you they’d get lazy if we got 'em fixed!” They didn’t get lazy; they grew up. You don’t expect a 16-year-old human to bounce all the walls like a 5-year-old, would you?
Your cat needs to be confused.
They are daydreaming about the good old days when they were worshipped as gods, and plotting to bring those days back.
[Brain]We’re going to take over the world[/Brain]