Lots of kitty-catty behaviors don't make sense to bipedal primates who spend their lives draped in fabrics, racing along commutes, clutching their heads over bills, and so on. Cats don't understand any of that. They're stuck back in 8,000 B.C.E. at the dawn of their domestication, with a genetic lineage that connects to some of Earth's most successful land predators. In fact, as International Cat Care says, it's more or less believed that cats domesticated themselves by poking around human settlements, killing the vermin that our trash and gross habits conjured, and gradually inveigling themselves into our households and, eventually, onto our laptops. This is the lens through which all cat behaviors must be viewed if we want to understand them.
Science Focus makes several good points about cats that relate to their preference for laptops, chiefly scent. "Cats are scent machines from the end of the tail to the tip of their nose," animal psychologist Dr. David Sands says. Their vision isn't all that good and is only used at night to hunt. Some have suggested that cats like laptops because human scent is all over them — our fingers and skin oils practically lacquer the things. Then there's warmth, which we mentioned before. All cat owners can attest to the feline preference for snuggling up to warm objects and staying in warm spaces. But while scent and warmth play into things, they're subordinate to a cat's real reason for laying on laptops: domination.
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