The "Cats Vs Concrete Slabs" Trend Purrfectly Explained by the Expurrts at I Can Has Cheezburger

We all know that cats are purrfectly peculiar creatures. They like the most random things, like the bottle cap that fell on the floor instead of their $30 feather toy you just bought them. It may seem like they're doing this just to spite you, but we pawmise you, they aren't. In a new viral TikTok trend, cat owners are buying their kitties simple slabs of concrete - and their cats are pawsitively obsessed with them! But the question is, why?

Well, cats love any surface that is different than the one they're on. They view the surface they're lying on as their territory, so if they are lying on your living room floor, they have a lot of area to "protect" - this explains why cats love enclosed spaces more. The rough, purrfectly porous texture of the concrete also purrvides them with ample opportunity to scent-mark, and it can scratch that itch you've been trying to get to for weeks! There are plenty more answers below, so scroll down and read them all!

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Cats love anything that is warm, and concrete absorbs and retains heat with the best of them! Just like cats love sleeping on heating pads, a concrete slab that's been soaking in the sun is like a textured heating pad that lasts for hours.
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If there's one question that we could answer blindfolded, hands tied, disoriented, or just woken up, it would be the answer to the question: Do cats love scritches? And the answer is of course, yes. They love getting scritches and scratching themselves on anything pawssible. So it makes sense that they would love to scratch themselves against the concrete!
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