Things Cats Must Remember f I bite the cactus, it will bite back. Screaming at the can of food will not make it open itself. The canned cat food is already dead. I do not need to kill it by swatting bits of it all over the floor. If I play 'dead cat on the stairs' while people are trying to bring in groceries or laundry, one of these days it will really come true. If I put a live mouse in my food bowl, I should not expect it to stay there until I get hungry. It is not a good idea to try to lap up the powdered creamer before it all dissolves in the boiling coffee. Television and computer screens do not exist to backlight my lovely tail.