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Actually, it isn’t just circles, but any defined area. We set something down—a box, a bag, a neatly folded sweater—and within minutes, our cat is sitting in it. Not near it or investigating it, but fully, deliberately in it.
Even when there’s nothing there at all the same thing happens. A faint outline on the floor. A patch of sunlight. An invisible boundary that only the cat seems to understand compells them to take up residence in it, however temporarily.
This behavior is surprisingly consistent and surprisingly common. Cats are drawn to defined spaces—edges, borders, anything that creates a sense of enclosure. Even a loosely suggested boundary is enough.
And that, it is thought, is the key – enclosure. We all know how cats adore boxes. To be in one gives them comfort. Not necessarily physical comfort. They’ll climb into the tiniest boxes which certainly cannot be comfortable – but psychologically such enclosures – defined spaces – give a sense of security – of being in a space which is easily protected while all around them is shifting and changing and in which anything can happen – but not within their newely claimed enclave.
