The reason I don’t feel bad about telling Badger to tough it out in the mild heat is that domestic cats are evolved as desert-dwellers, they can handle it

That’s why their cycle is crepuscular, active at dawn and twilight, sleeping when it’s too hot or cold

That’s why they have instincts to alternatingly sprawl out in the sun or curl up in dark crevices

That’s why their piss smells so terrible, they clean by dry-licking, they lap water so inefficiently – their waste has very high ammonia concentration, to conserve water enough to get by drinking the blood of their kills