Cats (Felis catus, that is) are a lot more social than people tend to think. They’re not pack animals in the same sense as dogs but they are domesticated, so living with people is kind of their thing. Lots of people end up with distinctly unhappy or unhealthy cats because they assume the little critters take care of themselves and don’t need to be played with. (Unless that’s “cats” broadly construed, that is. If you’re including Pantherinae, you have animals as solitary as the Siberian tiger or as social as the African lion, for whom living in large groups is… Read more »