Cat purrs so loud when he gets away with something that owner starts to think he knows when he is being mischevious and enjoys it: 'I think it's funny if he forever thinks we can't hear purring, so I always let him get away with it'

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Olivia Arocena • Writer and Editor
Jul 11, 2026 8:00 AM EDT

Do cats enjoy mischief?

I'm surprised this owner does not hesitate to say his cat 'thinks'; not only that he thinks, but that he has a concept of right and wrong, of good and bad, and that he then decides to do bad and 'enjoys' it. Honestly, I'm here for it. Who's to say it's not possible? Has any of os been inside a cat's mind?

I have the most amazing relationship with my cat Filomena, and of course I've often imagined she thinks and plots things. Every cat has its own personality, and personalities come with peculiar tastes, characteristics and purr-spectives. It's very hard to think about mischief as a concept outside of language itself (I mean cats don't talk and don't understand words, let's be real), but I do think it's possible. I'm trying to think of babies, and how sometimes through the gaze or through gestures they can tell whether what they're doing is correct or not. Of course, children are from our own species, but well, cats have lived with humans for so long; maybe they started to instinctively understand us.

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  • My cat purrs very loud when he thinks he's getting away with a crime

    Because he has a habit of biting my toes (only my toes, by the way, my wife gets to have her toes, only
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  • I am not allowed to have toes), I don't let my cat in the bedroom when I'm going to bed.
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  • Naturally, this means he very much wants to be in the bedroom.
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  • Now, for a tiny 8-pound cat, he has ahl of a motor, and on top of that, I have 100+ year-old
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  • hardwood floors from trees denser than what's around today. Stuff's basically concrete at this point.
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  • Every once in a while, I will scan the room, not see the cat, and close the door. If he is hiding somewhere in
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  • the room, he will at this point start purring extremely loudly completely giving away
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  • whatever he's hidden under/behind. The floors amplify it, but I think it's funny if he forever thinks
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  • we can't hear purring, so I always let him get away with it (until he bites my toes five minutes later).
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    The cat preparing to bite some toes

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  • What I loved most about this story is that he lets him (the cat) have it, even though he bites his toes. Not everyone is allowed to have them, apparently! I hope technology takes us to a point where we can finally see what’s going on inside these animals’ minds. Could we make them speak? Would they rule the world?

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