By Amy Glover
Cat on a concrete slabYou might have seen the viral videos on social media recently; a cat owner brings a concrete slab into their home, leaves it in easy access of their cat, and films.聽
The resulting sniffs, pats, and almost inevitable rolling and nuzzling is pretty adorable to watch.聽
But why do they feel that way about what is, after all, a block? Is it that, as one TikTok poster suggested, they鈥檙e 鈥渞emembering their days as a street cat鈥?
Here鈥檚 what the pros say:
@mrmilothechonkI should have bought 3 #foryou#foryoupage#cats#catsoftiktok#viral
鈾 Almost forgot that this was the whole point – Take my Hand Instrumental – AntonioVivaldWhy do cats like concrete slabs so much?聽
Professor of biology Jonathan Losos, author of The Cat鈥檚 Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa, told Livescience that texture probably has a lot to do with it.聽The 鈥渞ough texture鈥 allows them to get to parts of their bodies they couldn鈥檛 usually reach while rolling on it, which Professor Losos thinks is both a satis