but WHEN did cats start sitting like humans?

first they came for my in-tray and i said nothing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwASnhbsqKI

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Caj2GnWTJtw/UBQyYefKx3I/AAAAAAAARPI/jU7HXIPi0N8/s1600/animals-sitting-like-humans-009.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MALjxmujy1E/UBQ0M6ht4RI/AAAAAAAARS8/EcStYxPl5SU/s1600/animals-sitting-like-humans-029.jpg

I would expect that the origin is coincident with the advent of cushioned furniture.

The cushion is a very ancient article of furniture; the inventories of the contents of palaces and great houses in the early Middle Ages constantly made mention of them. Cushions were then often of great size, covered with leather, and firm enough to serve as a seat, but the steady tendency of all furniture has been to grow smaller with time. Today, the cushion is considered an upholstery item.

and yet, as mark points out, evidence of cats' unnerving tendency to sit like humans seems lacking in the historical record

*x-files theme*

We were encroaching on their territory first.

https://static.playbill.com/dims4/default/51a93fb/2147483647/resize/410x/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplaybill-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fc9%2F6f%2F3e40f35e41a188594521a2c483ab%2F05.20.11-SCW-ARTS-cats-1.jpg

I’ve watched this probably 7 times in a row pic.twitter.com/p6kiVsIKJq

— jordan (@JordanUhl) April 9, 2019

what the shit

read some of the replies :(

https://i.imgur.com/ASJ6cX2.png

read some of the replies :(

― rob, Wednesday, April 10, 2019 11:46 AM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark

;_;

read some of the replies :(

kitten in a cage sets the alarm bells going right away tbh.

reminds me of my kitty when was a wee yin :c

did we ever sort this

they're all at it

pic.twitter.com/VLj4Q0P6CX

— cats being weird little guys (@weirdlilguys) May 13, 2022

what goes around comes around, buddy

pic.twitter.com/6Ai7kEmMW2

— cats being weird little guys (@weirdlilguys) May 16, 2022

All the best cat threads are on 77. But this is worth linking:

https://www.cnet.com/culture/internet/us-army-corp-of-engineers-cat-calendar-is-so-bad-its-brilliant/

oh my god

surprise cameo from benedict cumberbatch in october, oh, my god.

the captions. who wrote this. i love this. my mind is reeling

it's amateurish. it's nonsensical. and it's wonderful

this calendar has become so precious to me over the past hour

I know the thread is about cats *sitting* like humans, but, well.

I adopted Phil a week ago and he sleeps like this starting yesterday on me. Is this normal? I am a first time cat owner. pic.twitter.com/ZYTmEExsZE

— Michael's Cat (@michaelscat2) January 27, 2023

Phil is not a first time human owner