If you look at the right front leg,(Imagine the cat is facing north) , The cat's leg would not be that way if it was going DOWN. Therefore, the Cat is going UPSTAIRS, not DOWNSTAIRS.
Look at the stairs and you will see a lip stair don't have lip unless its under the step so the cat is going down
The cat is going downstairs. The riser is sunk in and the tread has an over hang. You dont put a lip on the top of a step like that to trip over. You are seeing the risers and tread overhang. If you kids knew architecture, you'd know this. So anyone that thinks the cat is going up obviously a fucking idiot.
The cat is going down Coz the protruding edge of the stairs it's suppose to prevent u from falling forward. So, looking at the picture, imagining you are going to walk down the stairs with the protruding edges to prevent u from falling.