Dumb humans often assume that we cats don't have pockets. But we do. Two of them. In our ears.
They are called (heaven knows why) Henry's pockets. They are little flaps of skin at the bottom of each ear.
You can see them in the photo - pink pockets in Dotty's ears!
What are they for? We cats don't know and for once humans admit that they don't know either.
They might be useful for our superior hearing - we have a much wider range of hearing than humans and also a much more acute hearing ability.
Or they might be designed to help ear mobility: we can swivel our ears to catch a sound. Humans can't do that, though occasionally a gifted human can wriggle their ears a tiny bit.
When humans invented pockets in their clothes, they were probably imitating us.
They look up to us, you know.
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