Has Real Life Lady caught her two cats in an amorous tryst? Are these two cats embracing in an act of love? Should we alert TMZ to a possible new cat couple on the scene? The answers are simple. No, no, and who the hell even goes on TMZ?

Far from a saucy romance, what Real Life Lady has captured here is actually one of the least understood and least studied of all cat phenomena: a cat’s need for hugs. Cats need hugs almost constantly. Is your cat on your keyboard? Give it a hug. Does your cat keep rubbing against your legs? Hug that little bastard like there’s no tomorrow. Is your cat on a fencepost in the middle of the night, caterwauling  like mad? What he or she is saying is please hugthe living daylights out of me. In the absence of human huggers, cats turn to one another to satisfy their insatiable lust.

But, dear reader, you may be wondering, why hugs? Scientists aren’t sure. Some think it has to do with stimulating the production of natural oils that keep a cat’s hair clean and smooth. We don’t really know, and frankly, we don’t care. We just like hugging cats.