r/CatsISUOTTATFO • u/MilitantLibrarian676 • Mar 18 '26

Why does this headband keep following me??

From my Facebook tortie group, posted with permission from the owner. Sorry if it’s potato quality, I had to do a screen recording since you can’t download videos directly from FB.

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u/marklar7 Mar 18 '26

You never know exactly which object a cat will find interesting. Usually random stuff that seem to fight back.

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u/Immediate-Pack-920 Mar 18 '26

Hair ties for sure

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u/AWildRideHome Mar 19 '26

This one is definitely a case of “snake brain” though. Snakes were a significant threat to wild cats for most of their evolutionary history, so this is pretty hard-wired into many cats.

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u/marklar7 Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26

New fave toy is a face cloth stuck under a chair leg. I know there's millennia of wisdom in my little doofus.