‘Suddenly Biscuit, was not the apex, suddenly every cat in the hierarchy was fighting for the top.’: A cat owner’s attempt to comfort a sad feline triggers a hierarchy collapse, as the once apex cat fights to reclaim their right to exclusive affection

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Nov 15, 2025 3:00 PM EST

As feline pawrents we are pretty well versed in the dangers and pitfalls of having cat children in our lives. For example, when you wake in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom you must be wary of every shadow that looks like a shirt on the floor, lest it be your cat who cannot be bothered to move. Or how every time you eat you need to keep your head on a swivel just in case your cat has decided to morph into a food ninja and will pounce upon your plate with little to no warning when you least expect it.

Well, we are coming to you with a story today that truly takes the biscuit when it comes to these kinds of cautionary tales as we delve into the story of the four feline horsemen of the apocalypse who did not take kindly to their self agreed upon hierarchy being tampered with by their hooman servant. Suffice it to say that chaos quickly ensued until order was restored to the horsemen's lives.

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    Within my household, there exist - as I like to term them - the four horsemen of the apocalypse:
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    Luna - Famine • Biscuit - D th KitKat - Pestilence Sasha Destruction -
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    Much like the four horsemen, my cats have an established hierarchy a sort of food chain where the apex among them may receive the most affection.
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    Until now the apex among them had been Biscuit - D..th. He is, unfortunately, the most intelligent, dexterous, and affectionate cat we have ever had. It is
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  • You know when people talk about cats being secretly evil and having plans to take over the world. This is what they are talking about. It is pretty messed up and quite the terrifying thing but, it seems to have been true all along. Though perhaps it is only a phenomenon when the horsemen are assembled under one roof…

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    rare to see drth out of the arms of one of my family members, out of mine. When he's not snuggled up against us or sleeping on our beds, he's - quite appropriately - out hunting.
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    On the other end of the spectrum, there exists the nadir, Sasha Destruction. The idiot, the clutz, the fool. Quite true to her name, she has a tendency to throw
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    the house into chaos. If I had a nickel for a every time we thought our house was being broken into, but it was just Sasha stuck in a gate or having knocked over a pot or something?
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    Id have 8 fi .g nickels That's not a lot but it's weird that it happane- its a lot.
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    And between those two polar opposites, lie pestilence and famine, KitKat and Luna. They dance between the second and third in command, but never, never dip into either the apex or nadir.
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    My cats as a collective? Sharp as marbles. Capable of complex, nuanced emotions? Apparently so. Before these events
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  • Goodness gracious, but from the sounds of it, the hoomans are no longer running the show in this household. This is a now a feline led and possibly even funded affair, and any hooman who messes with the balance of things could very quickly find themselves on the wrong end of a very scratchy stick…

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    took place I had no idea that my cats could exhibit jealousy, spite. Now time for my monumental fok up.
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    As of recent, I've been spending more time at home, and I've also found myself in another don - I have also noticed that Sasha has been
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    | looking more down, subdued, and skittish, not unlike myself. suppose I felt pity, I had never seen this side to any of my cats, I suppose a function of my less
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    than frequent presence at my house, and decided to focus my attention on her Dth did not approve
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    Immediately after I started focusing my affection on Sasha, the clutz, the fool - Biscuit Dth - - noticed. Over the next week I noticed fewer and fewer birds in my bed, less
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    reaches for scratches, and almost no direct eye contact Wierd I know sit up Im telling the story. Even more so, id get jealous looks from dth every time I
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    picked up and held destruction I'd get brutal stares before d th would slink back into the dark recesses of another's arm. And then the hierarchy collapse occurred.
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    Suddenly Biscuit - dh, was not the apex, suddenly every cat in the hierarchy was fighting for the top, and so too was the denounced apex, with a v 'nt, heightened intensity.
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    Each cat now risked the fall to the lowest level of the food affection chain. D th would scare every other horseman away from my arms, and would ceaselessly chase them around
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    the house if he didn't get the most affection. Suddenly destruction propagated from all 4 horsemen. If another cat was within the sight line of d th, chaos and vice would be assured.
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    Pots cracked, glasses shattered, couches and clothes scratched and torn - and no longer will any cat accept my plea for affection, for dh watches.
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    I've tried everything, but the hierarchy has collapsed. Help.
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