Our family cat, a rescue, would invite other cats in for lunch. Id come downstairs and see a strange cat eating out of the bowl. Our cat just stood a foot away like a waiter waiting on a table. I think he just wanted to share this magical food bowl that was always refilled.

We had 2-3 cats in a rural area, and several times, when their numbers fell low, they'd recruit an additional cat. So all we did was make sure the new recruit truly was a stray, and if so, go along with the adoption.

So goes the saying - you don't own a cat, a cat owns you...

Haha it’s true. My mum gets hay fever from cat and horse hair. We used to have a stray in our yard sometimes and my mum hated it cos it would dig our vegetable garden and poo in it. She would throw stones and bricks at it, hose it, etc. (Never to hurt it, just to scare it away)

One day it came up on our back deck at 11pm at night with a flee collar around its waist really tight. So my dad and Uncle cut it off and have it some left over meat from dinner.

We had a ladder leading against the house near the bathroom (about 4 feet away from the window) which only opens about 2 inches cos of the security latches. This cat went up the ladder and somehow crossed 4 feet of nothing to the window. Climbed in and got caught upside down in the blinds.

Mum said any cat that willing to stay can stay, BUT ITS NOT ALLOWED IN THE ROOM!! It sat at the door and howled and howled so mum said “ok it can stay in the room BUT ITS NOT ALLOWED ON THE BED!!!!”. It jumped on the bed, mum kicked it off, it jumped on, mum kicked it off... after 2 nights of this mum gave up and let it sleep on the bed.

Tiger stayed with us for the next 8 years till he passed. Was my first pet. He was an outdoor cat. But they are smart. If mum came home from work. He wouldn’t be seen till dinner time. But sometimes mum would have a bad day at work. She would get home. And only on the days she had a bad day, he would be home within minutes of mum getting home and he would bump her legs until she picked him up. Always made mum feel better. He knew when something was wrong.

I believe the documentary you're referring to is "The Secret Life of the Cat" which fitted cats with tracking devices and cameras. It's available online [0].

[0] https://vimeo.com/84794829

We had a male cat. And I know that he was "ours" because I watched him being born. But some years later, he disappeared. So we put up posters. And discovered that several neighbors thought that he was their cat. He never did return, though. To us, anyway.

Cats don't have owners, they have servants. ;)

That time sharing thing is cool. I wonder how long it takes for them to synchronize and how they do the synchronization

peeing on things

Makes sense..

They also mark possessions with phermones by rubbing their cheeks against things.