Spring is here

Spring is here, and my cats are responding with thinner fur coats. This means lots of carpet cleanup in cjsmith's world.

I gotta wonder. They don't go outside, so they aren't responding to temperature changes. Might it be the longer hours of sunlight? Strange that coat thickness would be linked to light rather than directly to warmth.

If humans are instrumental in cat evolution, maybe in another thousand years Felix domesticus will like to have thick fur combed out. (Or not. I suspect the majority of caring pet owners do the spay and neuter thing, which would mean that pet traits associated with those owners are being winnowed out.)