When a cat finds that perfect square on the floor that’s being illuminated by the sun coming through a glass window, you might call that spot a cat trap. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Cat Trap”
Remember the listener who was describing the action of closeteering?
No. What was that?
This was when her cat goes into the closet and just tries to find the most difficult place to find the cat and goes closeteering all over the place.
That prompted Tracy Lord from Valdosta, Georgia, to write us.
She said, there’s one perfect sunny spot on the floor by the back door.
When we find one of our cats lying in the spot, my daughter says, we caught one in the cat trap.
That’s nice.
I really, really like that, the cat trap.
That’s perfect.
That little square of sunlight on the floor.
Well, have you seen that people have been doing this online for a while?
They’ve demonstrated that you can put a chalk square or a tape square on the floor,
And cats will go to it as if it were a box that they can sit in.
Is that right?
Supposedly.
Oh, my gosh.
I haven’t done it with my cats yet.
I should.
Oh, you have to try that at home, right?
But you know how they immediately go to an open bag or open box, right?
Oh, yeah.
Try to climb into a backpack or a purse even.
As long as it’s come out of a dark cavern, they can hide in.
That’s right.
Yeah, the bag is much more fun than the toys you bought for it, right?
Yeah.
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