That floppy orange body on the couch is not resting; it is accumulating risk. Behind the meme of the oversized ginger cat sits a predator built for short, intense bursts of movement, not endless free feeding and soft cushions.A cat’s basal metabolic rate was shaped by a hunt–fast–sleep cycle. When an orange cat free-grazes high-calorie food but rarely triggers the full predatory sequence—stalk, ch...More