You are right. Cats are very independent, and U never own them; they own you. My cat Jack plays with the water bowl and gets the floor all wet, and my cat Coco plays with the safety seals that come off of our juice and milk bottles. My cat Cubby will run up and down the stairs, apparently chasing nothing, and he'll also skulk the stairs. My last cat, Nikka, is having troubole adjusting, since she was born a feral cat, and she is afraid of just about everything.