Cats are famously among the most efficient hunters on Earth, total ambush experts with keen hearing, excellent night vision, lightning-fast reflexes, and the ability to stalk in silence. The fact that humans domesticated these carnivorous predators to keep as cuddly pets is pretty wild when you think about it, especially knowing they could do some real damage to us if they wanted to.

Thankfully, they generally don’t want to. Pet cats want to pretend-stalk squirrels from the sofa, go wild with a laser pointer, and do their best to catch Olympic lugers on the TV as they whizz by.

Wait, catch lugers? Yep. Watch:

It’s a perfect little window into just how hardwired that hunting instinct really is, even for a cat who has probably never chased anything more dangerous than a feather toy. And it’s not just luge that gets them going, any sport with fast, unpredictable motion seems to flip the same switch. Skiers, figure skaters, hockey pucks, it all reads as prey to a cat’s brain.

Cats just seem to dig........

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