One of the best things about being cat owners is getting to see our cats react to the world. You would think that cats - who are known for being aloof and bored with everything - would not have the best reactions to things, but you would be wrong. Cats have the best reactions. To everything. And we have proof. We have seen cats react to optical illusions, we have seen cats react to robot snakes, we have seen kittens scream at water because they were surprised by it being wet.
We could watch our cats all day every day, and we would never get bored. Actually, sometimes, we do just that - spend our time relaxing by watching our cats. We have to. How could we live with ourselves if we missed moments like these - like our cats smelling a stink bug for the first time and having an absolute existential crisis about it?
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One of our favorite things about cats is the fact that they sniff literally everything, and if that thing is not entirely pleasant to their noses, they make the funniest faces. We live for it. Rarely do our cats do the iconic gagging face, but they do have a stink face that is undefeated.
Oh, the calm before the storm, the innocence before the consequence. And of course the cat is orange. Of course the cat goes through an entire internal battle over whether to cave to its curiosity and touch the bug again or not. An icon was born on this day, ladies and gentlemen, an icon.
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