If you’re trying to catch a housecat that’s gotten outside, don’t forget: they’re an ambush predator and you’re a persistence predator.
You have several times more endurance than they do - use that to your advantage!
Don’t run after them; that’s playing to the cat’s strengths, and vigorous pursuit may cause them to hide. Instead, follow them at a brisk walking pace until they get tired and need to have a lie-down, at which point you can simply pick them up and take them home.
Ok but no shit this tactic is what allowed humans to survive pre-civilisation
Some mammoth: *chilling, eating grass, mammothing*
Cavedude: *power walks towards them*
Mammoth: oh sIHT
cat : haha you can’t outrun me
human:
That’s the best possible use of a gif I’ve ever seen
edward: if only i could read bella’s mind and unravel its mysteries! does she like mike? tyler? eric? does she like… me? that cannot be true, for she could never see me as someone worthy of love!
meanwhile bella’s mind:
loving the twilight era of enlightenment. it’s about time
i dont usually quote paris hilton, but she did once say, “If somebody ever asks you to do something, do it really bad so you never have to do it again” and this advice has never failed me