Max has overcome the effects of the sedative triumphantly but is still adjusting to life with a lampshade on his head.  He’s mastered picking objects off the floor for the most part by simply hovering over them and pushing his head straight down.  The cone thus creates a dome of  privacy over whatever he has captured so the cat may not interfere.  I don’t think he quite knows what’s going on and I’m waiting for him to partially drown the cat by jamming his cone over his water bowl while the cat is drinking.

Max has overcome the effects of the sedative triumphantly but is still adjusting to life with a lampshade on his head.  He’s mastered picking objects off the floor for the most part by simply hovering over them and pushing his head straight down.  The cone thus creates a dome of  privacy over whatever he has captured so the cat may not interfere.  I don’t think he quite knows what’s going on and I’m waiting for him to partially drown the cat by jamming his cone over his water bowl while the cat is drinking.