Cats have been bestowed with an inordinate amount of web presence in relation to their position in the world. For whatever reason, technology LOVES cats! But do cats love technology? Do they even know what technology is? These are the important questions of our time.
First off, let’s establish that cats are dumb. Real dumb. How-have-you-managed-to-survive-as-a-species dumb. Point to something, a cat will just smell your finger. Try and call a cat into the room, they won’t come? Know why? Because cats don’t know what their name is. Cats have a habitual psychotic need to constantly mark their territory–even if they’re the only cat that’s in the house. They are defending their territory from nothing.
Cats are idiots.
So, you can only imagine what must be going on in those big vacuous fuzz faces when they come across the Steve Job’s magical touch screen device, the iPad. From the point of view of a cat, the iPad is an enchanted window to a world that they can never enter. But yet, they are able to directly interact with the sounds, colors, and objects that exist so tantalizingly close right behind the magical barrier. Sometimes the shapes and characters behind the window travel off screen, seeming to evaporate from the Universe? Where did they go? The whole concept creates an unbridgeable gap in cat logic, causing an overload of both panic and wonder in the feline brain.
So, of course, cats being the internet’s favorite muse, there has been a vast documentation of the cat vs. iPad phenomenon. We’ve sifted through hours of dumbfounded felines attacking koi that can never be eaten, stalking angry birds that can never be caught, and wreaking havoc on magical disembodied pianos. All in order to find the finest examples of cat and touchscreen.
Adorable stupid is after the jump.
