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Violence with a cat's PR team: sudden, graceful, deniable.
means To spring or swoop on something suddenly, seizing the chance (or the prey) before it can react.
from Pounce started as a noun meaning a hawk's claw — from Old French 'poonson/poinson,' a stamping or piercing tool, related to the root of 'puncture' and 'punch.' So the original pounce was the weapon itself, the talon. Only later did English verb it into the swift strike that talon makes — the tool became the action, the claw became the swoop.
- muscle math
- hind legs store energy like loaded springs
- target zone
- cats aim for the neck, instinctively, even on toys
- the wiggle
- butt wiggle before pouncing improves traction and launch accuracy
- not just cats
- frogs, foxes, and lawyers all pounce opportunistically