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A four month study following a large test group of cats in the wild has confirmed what many have long suspected: cats can be – and often are – total jerks.

“We observed cats clawing furniture, peeing in potted plants, knocking pens off of tables, knocking each other off of tables, knocking food off of tables, knocking – well, knocking pretty much everything off tables,” said lead researcher Kyle Davy-Watkins of the Feline Behavior Institute at Cornell University.

The study, which is being released next week in the journal of feline research Purr, tracked 120 cats in the Ithaca, NY area for four months. 

“We concluded that cats are totally class-A jerk faces,” said Davy-Watkins. “They can certainly be sweet as well, but on their own terms and usually not for extended periods of time. We feel comfortable saying that all cats possess the innate capacity for jerkiness, and most use it at least some of the time.”

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When Cersei the cat arrived at the International Bottle Cap Collector’s Association’s annual conference in Jupiter, FL this week, she was sure she had a killer collection. According to friends she’s been saving caps under the refrigerator since she was a kitten.  But other collectors weren’t impressed.

“It’s not volume that matters. It’s quality,” explained Toby Northfork, president of the Cayuhoga County chapter of the IBCCA in Cleveland, OH. “Cersei had a fair number of caps, sure, but most of them were from standard plastic soda bottles. Not the sort of thing collector’s get excited about.”

According to Northfork some of what the cat brought to the conference can’t even be classified as bottle caps. “There were gum wrappers, some candies, even a pen,” he said.

Northfork said that as a beginner, Cersei was on mostly on the right track. He encouraged her to keep collecting, but focus on rarer caps. 

“To get very far with this hobby, she’ll need to learn the difference between a plastic Coca Cola cap, and a vintage one from the 1930s,” he said. “Also, she needs to stop mixing twist ties and crumpled up papers into the collection.”

For her part, friends say Cersei was initially upset, but recovered quickly when she started chasing her bottle caps across the room.

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