Catplicity is a wrongful act by one or more felines. Mind you, it’s probably acceptable in the cat’s purrview, but these actions often antagonize people sharing the home with the cats. Such actions can include willfully knocking items like jewelry, pills, and pens to the floor, tipping over glasses of water, or stealing food.

A catedge is an extremely slender cat, one that appears so thin, they seem to be flat and one-dimensional. It’s said that their structure allows catedges to walk through cracks in time and space, so they can appear almost anywhere, at anytime. They’re often ginger, tabby, or black and white, and will awe you with their graceful jumping and walking.

Catconnoiter (definition): for a feline to make an observation of an area.

In Use: “After eating his first breakfast, Scheckter catconnoitered his yard each morning to ensure order remained, doing his business in brush along the fence.”

Pawticular (definition): A cat’s food, drinking or sleeping preference.

In use: “Scheckter was pawticular about drinking water from the bathroom sink while it dribbled out in low volume.”

Catalong (definition): A feline habit of following or accompanying others during their activities.

In use: “Whenever Crystal heard the key in the lock, she would jump up to go greet her people, and her kittens would catalong.”

Catangle (definition): the geometric shape formed by three or more cats’ positioning while lounging or observing human activity. When three cats group, the catangle often becomes a triangle; sometimes they are surreally equilateral.

Leglove (definition): a cat’s habit of rubbing or brushing up against a person’s leg to show their affection or request attention.

Meowrish (Definition): a bold, rising crescendo of sounds made by a cat.

In use: “Quinn enters a room with a non-stop meowrish that ends with an chirpy “Meow.””

Catspective (definition): the feline’s view of an existing scene.

Synonyms: purrspective.

In use: “From Cleo’s catspective, food was being put out to be eaten, and she liked eating. Therefore, the Thanksgiving spread was there for her to eat.”

A startercat is an embodiment of a perfect house cat. Neat, sweet, loving, fun, smart, sociable, they’re companions for people without drama or effort.

Startercats ruin it for people. They establish an impossibly high standard of expectations for all future cats that arrive in the house. The others will usually find their niche with you, but it’s infrequently as easy as it was with the startercat.

Unless you’re fortunate enough to encounter another startercat.