Yes, _no model can_ is an important part. But what I was focusing on is that the cat is either alive or dead in the box and not both. Just because we can't tell doesn't mean that's not true. Particles are observers and the wave function is collapsed from the perspective of the cat, but not from our perspective where we can't measure. But people misunderstand this as the cat behaving in a quantum state, which isn't happening. People have also assumed "observer" means "human", when particles themselves are observers. Which is why the cat is actually in a classical state (either alive or dead, not both), because within that box the particles are interacting. The confusion comes because the analogy being misinterpreted (the analogy assumes a lot of things that can't actually happen because it is... an analogy and to understand it you really need to have a lot of other base knowledge to understand the assumptions being made).