Cats in squares is the internet's new obsession

Cats are brilliant, especially when they react hilariously to your efforts at trolling them.

And that is exactly what the Internet can’t stop doing more than usual at the moment, using nothing more than squares.

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It all started when Twitter user Danielle Matheson posted an interesting theory to her mother from Pinterest that said if you put a sure on the floor, your cat will get in it.

So Danielle’s mum decided to test out that theory – and sure enough, their pet cat was only too happy to get into the makeshift square on the floor:

The tweet quickly went viral and as a result, inspired other cat owners to test out this truly wondrous piece of scientific theory:

However, it didn’t work for everyone:

It is thought that cats enter any square they see because they see it as new territory and, cats being cats, they need to have a little explore.

Oh, and it also works on humans…

Top pic: Twitter