Like, it’s sleeping so deeply and you’ll go to pet it, and it jumps awake, jumps several more times as it notices its surroundings, then runs away from them in terror? Like:
“OH GOD! I exist! OH GOD! There’s a world around me! RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN!”
No, like… literally.
Like…
A fight between two cats.
Like, if you walk away, they keep going about their business, but if you try to go up to them, they freak out and run away?
Like, they think maybe if they stand super still, you will not only not see them, but also forget there was a cat there a second ago. Like you can’t still see the black cat crouched on the light gray concrete, and you feel no need to investigate the cat that you could see a second ago but can’t see now.
I’m just like, “I’m not going to pick you up, dude, I just wanted to say hi.”
“Two Hundred Channels, nothin’ but cats.”
I was on your team! I wanted that dog out of the house as much as you did! If you peed in my room, I am going to pee on everything you love.