Cat on a mat

So, you may well ask, what is so special about a cat sitting on a mat? Don’t they do this all the time?

Aha! Well this isn’t just any old mat. It is our official cat mat. It is soft and blue, with waterproofing and decorated with advertising for cat products. Even better, we got it as a freebie, some years back. Given all of the above, the cat has always refused, point blank, to have anything to do with it.

Back when we had a cat chair, we would place her official cat mat on it. She would sit under it. She would sit around it. She would walk over, look at it and decline to be seated at all. But she would not sit on it.

We would place her on it. She would jump off again, preferring a cosy human lap, bed, or fresh washing…

So, long ago we gave up on the cat mat. The children play with it now and use it as a cuddle rug themselves. But today, after it had been freshly washed, I folded it up and placed it on top of the pile of stuff on our blanket box. And lo, there the cat sat.