“Have you ever seen a cat attempt to pounce on a target, and miss? And what does the cat do? It acts as if it intended to miss. ‘Yes,’ it says. ‘I let that one go as a warning to all the others. Now I shall lick my paws for the next five minutes, precisely as I had planned.”

“Have you ever seen a cat attempt to pounce on a target, and miss? And what does the cat do? It acts as if it intended to miss. ‘Yes,’ it says. ‘I let that one go as a warning to all the others. Now I shall lick my paws for the next five minutes, precisely as I had planned.”

— Courtney Milan