Okay so the subject today, students, is cats. No not the musical. I do not understand why anyone would want to watch people prance around in cat costumes. Although maybe watching yummy women in cat costumes… er… never mind. According to Wikipedia, until recently cats were commonly believed to have been domesticated in ancient Egypt. But a study in 2007 showed that cat lines of descent probably run through as few as five self-domesticating African Wildcats. I mean, like wow. Cats making them selves choose fancy feast over Meow Mix? Buying themselves litter boxes and using them, and using words like “indeed” and “so forth”, and so forth. Amazing. What’s even more amazing is a cat’s ability to render a human harmless by simply sitting there looking cute. You know such famous tough guys as Wolverine, Jack Bauer, and John Wayne have been disarmed by little fuzzy bundles of claws playing with balls of yarn or tripping out on catnip! Okay so I made the catnip part up! Who’s to know for sure. I even have a theory of why there are so-called “Cat Ladies” in existence.
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