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Humans have been domesticating cats for a relatively short time, so cats still retain many of their previous habits in their daily lives. As the smallest felines, they cannot survive in forests where their prey is large and ferocious, and the ancestors of domestic cats lived in deserts, which determines many of their habits: fear of water, loud noises, and a preference for looking down from high places.

So it can explain why cats prefer semi-enclosed items such as cardboard boxes.

Cardboard boxes have a special magic for cats, whether they are large boxes, small boxes, courier boxes or shoeboxes. Cats tend to burrow into the carton regardless of its size and its own size. This makes many excrement shovelers curious, why do cats like cartons?

The carton can give the cat a sense of security. Most cats retain their hunting instincts, and when they are hunting, they like to hide themselves, and at home they will think that the box is the safest place they think is the place they can hide, providing them with a great hiding place before attacking and retreating.

The carton can keep the cat warm. Cats are very afraid of cold animals, normal cats suitable temperature in 30-36 degrees Celsius, equivalent to our summer temperature, when they are cold will spontaneously look for a place to make them warm, the box is a good place in their eyes, the carton space is small, the cat sleep in the heat is not easy to lose, naturally warmer.

The carton can be tempered for cats. It's in the cat's nature to grind their claws and teeth every day, but when the owner doesn't have a cat scratcher and teething stick for them, the cardboard box can meet the cat's needs. So we see that they sometimes scratch and bite chests, which is a reminder to the owners that they need to prepare the supplies they need.

Summary: For cats, everyone knows that the body is soft and more flexible animals, so for some places like cardboard boxes that can be drilled and have less space, cats will feel a sense of security inside, which can give cats a conscious orientation from its heart.

Cats are very suitable for sleeping in cardboard boxes, and secondly, cartons are also very warm for cats, and they can also satisfy the curiosity of cats, and then cats can meet their sense of security in cartons.

Cats are small carnivores, and by instinct, they are always on the lookout for medium to large carnivores that could pose a threat to their safety. When burrowed into the cardboard box, the cat usually behaves much more relaxed than in the open area, because the carton gives the cat a sense of security – they just need to pay attention to the movement in the direction of the opening.

Maybe it's because they feel very safe, and the blackness of the carton is still enough, so they can feel that sleeping is very fun.

Why do cats like cardboard boxes?

It's not just about liking, it's about need.

Although the cat's incomprehensible attachment to the cardboard box is incomprehensible, what kind of strange preference is this? But all this is a nature inherited by cats in order to avoid natural predators, which is a survival skill, strictly speaking, the need for cardboard boxes is not simply like.

The ancestors of cats living in the wild need to deal with many natural enemies, in the face of these natural enemies stronger than themselves, cats will hide in a small and crowded space to protect themselves from predators, the narrower the space, the more will make the cat feel safe. And the cat will also take a curled posture to defend itself, because the belly is a more fragile and deadly part of the cat.

This explanation is completely understandable, even if the current domestic pet cats no longer need to face the threat of natural enemies, but cats are more alert by nature and are very sensitive to the outside environment, so they still retain this habit.

As an aside, pregnant female cats tend to hide in cardboard boxes before they give birth, precisely because the cardboard box gives them a sense of security.

The decompression artifact is it.

Just now mentioned that cats will hide in the carton when they encounter threats, but someone wants to say that their cats are not because they are afraid, look at its posture of slumped in the carton on all fours and forks, but it is really not a little bit scared, and it is even going to overflow.

When cats feel stressed or anxious, hiding in a cardboard box can help them relieve them more effectively, as Claudia Fink, a veterinarian at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, said: "Hiding is a behavioral strategy adopted by cats when they encounter environmental changes and stressors." So dodging is the cat's first reaction to solve the problem.

And the nature of the cat is originally a cold fan, in my impression, after my big cat gave birth to a kitten, once I carefully arranged a very warm nest for it, and put the kitten in, but to my surprise is that the big cat one by one put the kitten to another place to sleep, which is very puzzled, I am also very unhappy again, to the big cat to change the position, but he seems to be very stubborn, or not according to the arrangement I arranged for it to sleep. It's not that cats like to sleep in cardboard boxes, it's that they don't like to be arranged even more, and their arrogant character determines their behavior.