stalks, shoots, and leaves
cat’s have two primary stalking modes. the famous one is the cat crawling low to the ground, sneaking up on something. we’ve all seen it in every cat themed cartoon ever, and it does happen when the cat is about to pounce on something that it can see
there’s a second mode too which is the long term stalk. it’s the one cats do when waiting in front of a mouse hole for a few hours. it involves the cat sitting down in a straight line pointed towards where it saw the ‘food’ disappear, all feet pointed forward, and while looking relaxed definitely paying attention towards the hole.
i mention this cause loki recently took up stalking his automatic food dispenser. starting around 6:30 he’ll sit down in front of it and stare quietly, taking breaks every now and then, but inevitably returning to wait.
eh, beats begging me.