Does anyone else think the whole toilet paper over thing is a myth created by cats?

[Major Nikon]

[Zambero]

1. Not a great scratching post, but sure looks like fun!

[htuttle]

2. Nope

[TruckFump]

4. +1 EOM

[Tech]

5. Obviously patent owner is the pet of a cat 🐱

[sl8]

10. Other patents show it going the other way.

Mr. Wheeler had a lot of patents related to toilet paper and this one was far from the first, the first would have been at least 20 years earlier.

Some of the patents show the roll going the other way:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US511983
https://patents.google.com/patent/US422866A

Short piece on this patent argument:
http://www.bpmlegal.com/w-overunder.html

Blurb on Mr. Wheeler & perforated paper:
http://www.albanyinstitute.org/perforated-toilet-paper.html

[shraby]

3. Over keeps dirty hands from touching the wall. In a large family

there are many hands, they worked outside on the farm as a rule and had grubby hands to grab the toilet paper.

[MaryMagdaline]

9. Exactly. Just going to post the same thing

[Bayard]

6. They do amuse themselves

In the very first apartment I ever had, I owned a cat. I came home from work one day to find a whole roll of toilet paper wrapped around every piece of furniture.

[Golden Raisin]

8. Me too. Left the house for work in the morning

with a full, new roll of toilet paper in the bathroom. Came home that evening to an empty cardboard spindle in the bathroom and toilet paper streamed/strewn over, under, around furniture, book cases, everything. I just had to laugh.

[keithbvadu2]

7. Video - None of his staff stopped him

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[UTUSN]

11. I'm right handed, hold the roll in the right, left hand taking it up & over

Therefore, the roll hangs with the leaf *OVER* the top towards one.

Yes, my attention has been called to me by cat companions that this orientation is facilitating for cats.