Cats are very smart–smart enough so that they try to understand things like printers, washing machines, and metronomes that can’t possibly have any relevance to them. In this they resemble human beings.
That’s why, when you watch a cat trying to figure something out, you can almost hear the wheels turning in his head.
They do pretty well in our world, all things considered. That metronome clip was pretty funny; the cat flinching in time t9 the metronome. 🙂