Cats and cardboard: a love affair

Mister Gato loves cardboard boxes. Whenever the FreshDirect guys bring groceries, or the UPS man makes a delivery, he waits for us to unpack and then happily investigates the empty cardboard boxes one by one, often picking one to settle into for a brief nap, or equally often, ritually sharpening his claws on the side of each box...

The other day we were breaking down a bunch of boxes for recycling, which distressed Mr. G. no end. All of those beautiful 3-D boxes being converted into 2-D cardboard flats! The horror!

He's a resourceful cat, though. He took custody of one of the smaller boxes (a recent conveyance for my latest shipment of O'Reilly books), jammed his head and front paws into one open end and wrestled the box back to "life."

Here, a contented cat sits inside the cardboard tunnel of his dreams:

Gato, thinking both inside and outside the box.

(Earlier Mister Gato posts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. See The Modulator and The Carnival of the Cats for more bloggers' cats from around the world.)