Cats are mysterious animals. They have been around for millennia and we still cannot decipher their sometimes weird behaviors. This vet offers alternative explanations for the oddities that your lovely Mittens sometimes displays, and they are both funny and surreal.

The creative vet printed a series of caricatures originally designed by artist Adam Ellis and pinned them on a cork board outside his office.

As the hilarious pictures below show, cats have a ridiculously good reason for every kink and quirk they carry out. For example, if they are kneading on your back or your favorite pillow, they are just trying to tell you that they want to enroll in baking classes and want you to pay for them.

Scroll down to discover what the real intentions of your cat are. Only this way you will know that Pickles is time-traveling to Feudal China the next time he makes a sudden disappearance.

h/t cheezburger