[ypeterholmes]

Still didn't quite capture it:

"When animals get bigger, their posture changes. Their legs tend to straighten, becoming stiffer and more pillar-like to better support their weight. Not so with cats. When a lion strides across the savannah, it has essentially the same posture as the domesticated tabby that slinks over your lap. Lions, tigers, and leopards—oh my—are, as Hutchinson writes, the only large, crouching mammals."

However I agree this article could have been a tweet.

[mst]

I think the article could've stood a bunch of editing, but (at the least to this repeat cat owner) the humour of their attempts to get the cats to co-operate was well worth retaining.