If by “better” you mean “more horrifyingly intense than anyone ever suspected”, sure!
I hope no one has posted it before…
Haha! The eyes really follow you around the room, now that I’m looking more closely.
when i was in high school my family had a cat which had been left behind by the mother when she vanished into the wild with the rest of her litter. it ended up being raised by a small dog which had a litter of puppies about the same time. the cat grew up to be very doglike in its mannerisms. for example, when it urinated, it would go to a tree or a car tire and hike its leg up and urinate on it. it ran with the dogs and played like a dog. it was the only cat i’ve ever encountered which would play fetch.
For a year or so, my cat would actually play fetch. She actually started doing it again the other day, but only for a bit (like 20 minutes). As far as I know, she was raised around other cats until she came to my house…
Mine does what I call playing catch. I toss or roll something near her, and she hits it back. If it goes too far out of reach, she just looks at me as if to say, “Bad throw - you go get it!”
My old cat who died years ago now would sort of do that… bat a ball or something back and forth…
Ah… I still miss my little guy… he at least lived a nice, long life to 18!
My first cat (of my very own), Jasmine, would chase small paper wads and actually bring them back so I could throw them again.
Aww! Myrtle plays this with me. She sits up on the cat shelf and I toss things and she bats them down to me. I (we?) love it. Same look, though, when my toss goes amiss.
And if I don’t have a tool to collect all the “lost” tosses, we run out of toys before she will bat them back off the shelf.
Same with my current cat for her “fetching” years, although with those craft pom-poms instead of paper balls.
Crafty Pom-Poms. (New band name?)
Nope!
But maybe it would be a “sloop” in this case