Unraveling the Enigma: What Makes Rebecca van Laer’s ‘Cat’ a Must-Read Mystery

Unraveling the Enigma: What Makes Rebecca van Laer’s 'Cat' a Must-Read Mystery

Another example: Chapter 4, called “Cats with Jobs,” begins with a story about a rodent infestation at the author’s home, and dives into the background of the idea that cats are meant to hunt small rodents, especially in their owners’ homes. This, it turns out, is a popular falsehood. While cats hunted like fiends when they were wild, their reputation for being relentless mousers died down once they got accustomed to the benefits of domestication, like ridiculously expensive wet food twice a day and nonstop head scritchies.

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