Cat stuff.

[WildRosie]

When people mention their cats spending their days doing cat stuff or cat things, what things does it include ? I can think of:

Eating grass
Stalking small rodents and birds
Eating insects
Finding food and sleeping quarters in neighbouring houses
Defecating in the neighbours' gardens

Obviously, not all cats do all of the foregoing. What have I missed out ?

Napping
Scratching on furniture/generally trying to get their housemates attention
Playing with toys
Begging for food

Bullying their owners.
Sitting in owners spot on the sofa.
Asking for food constantly then not bothering to eat it.
Staring at owners.
Tripping owners up.
Using the litter box.
Throwing up under the bed.
Bullying the dog.
Sitting on the window sill and glaring at passers by.
Sleeping on piles of clean laundry.
Scattering their cat litter around.
Running away from the vacuum cleaner.
Disapproving of random things, mainly their owners.
Looking for other cats to glare at.

Looking for dogs on leads to tease and empty boxes to sit in.

Sleeping in a patch of sun.
Putting treasures in your shoe.
Supervising you cook.
Scratching at the door to be let out.
Making sure you are soft enough before settling down for a sleep on you.

I barely scratched the surface of the litany of cat stuff. I don't think I mentioned fighting with other cats - that might be exclusive to undoctored males trying to establish supremacy.

Today cat stuff for my boy included:

Attend Zoom meeting 1 and sit on lap demanding snuggles.

Attend Zoom meeting 2 of which I was the chair and flash his arse to the camera.

Attend Zoom meeting 3 and attack the wire to my headphones, which were in my ear, until he got his claw stuck in my jumper and I had to try and extract him whilst he wiggled about without looking like I was just squeezing my own tit.

Be so exhausted after all the above he fell asleep in my seat when I got up for the loo.

Be so damn cute, I forgave all of the above 😂

Waiting for you to open the door...then turning around and walking back into the house leaving you standing there like a lemon.
Repeat above every five minutes until you stop opening door then they start shouting at you....
Repeat above because you assume the shouting means they actually DO want to go out

Nuzzling and slurping on my hair
Walk across the telecon camera
chattering teeth at birds thru window
Entertain colleagues by playfighting in background during Zoom mtg
Dashing around the garden
Being shooed off counters
Being hissed at when they scratch furniture -- back 30" later
Hovering hopefully near food bowls
Sniffing each others noses
Casting litter tray debris in all directions
chasing shoe laces
sunbathing
Chasing nerf bullets
Gazing at me adoringly
Standing on the edges of the litter tray scratching outside as they try to bury their mess in tray
Licking with sandpaper tongues (me, each other)
Waiting patiently for the sandwich plate to find some mayonaise traces on it
Purring on laps
Jumping at car or dog noises
Slinking slowly
Scratching claws on wood pile
Climbing up the cat tree or furniture

Lounging on the radiator
Stealing my seat
Sitting on the coffee table and slowly pushing items off it
Sitting in empty boxes
Sitting on me
Climbing up my desk chair then grabbing me when she falls off
Jumping on the furniture where her treats are kept whenever someone is within 2m of it

Licking the remnants of bathtub water
Terrorising the Christmas tree
Sleeping on clean clothes

1. sleeping
2. ...err. That's it.

Keeping my ankles warm.
How can you not love that face?

Oldest in my house sleeping most of the day with breaks for food

youngest looking for mice to kill and coming in and out every ten minutes on a food hunt

tortie no idea she thinks she is a feral cat with an indoor feeding station comes in eats and promptly howls to go out again, when i finally collar her in the house afternoon time she then goes to sleep till next morning

Washing
Patrolling
Joining in with household jobs, especially if they involve opening cupboards or boxes

My cat doesn't do any of the things in the op, is he too busy sleeping!