Simon’s Cat in Crazy Time

One of the side effects of a cat’s lifestyle of sleeping 20 hours a day is that all the normal energy produced by expensive, nutritionally-balanced cat food builds up. In humans, this buildup is called “middle-age spread.” In cats, it reaches the bursting point eventually. That is most likely to happen at 2AM, when humans are awakened by crashing, falling, and piano-playing sounds. In this animation from Simon Tofield, Simon’s Cat demonstrates such an episode during the day so we can see it better. The episode plays itself out in frantic rushing from one place to another as the cat tries to decide what it really wants to do. Having made no concrete decision, with the expelled energy spent, the cat returns to normal equilibrium. (via Tastefully Offensive)