I'm wondering where my cat gets his sense of logic from. I know you might be thinking cats have no sense of logic, but they're probably capable of much more than we realise. Besides, trying to figure out how my cat thinks is less depressing than trying to figure out how humans think.

My cat is getting kinda old (he's 13) and can't jump as well as he used to. Like most cats he likes to sit at the windowsill on a sunny day, but because he's ratty little bugger he can't jump straight onto it. Last time he tried he collapsed in a heap.

So he climbs instead. He can either clamber onto the speaker or onto the chair. The speaker is closer to the floor but that means he'll still have to try and leap onto the windowsill. 80% of the time he does not succeed. If he tried climbing onto the chair, he could then easily climb onto the windowsill.

I've showed him to use the chair several time but he always opts for the speaker, even though it means he risks falling down when he tried to leap onto the windowsill and fails yet again.

Personally I think he's starting to get some form of pussycat Alzheimers.