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Cat Forum / General Topics / September 2006Strange behavior
Does anyone else's cat seem to look around at things that aren't there? I know this sounds like and odd question, but my cat is always stopping dead in her tracks to stare at something...but there's nothing there...she'll be looking at a wall and then start looking all around like she's watching something. Sometimes she even goes into the "prepare to attack" mode with her ears back and looking alert. Now, she is the amazing bug/spider finder. My cat can find a bug anywhere in my house and if she can't get to it she'll sit there and stare at it and make a weird constant meow noise until I get the bug and she sees me dispose of it. But this is different. Has my cat lost it? Does any one else's cat do this? She's 2 years old and has no physical ailments that I know of. She just had her yearly check up and shot update last week, but she's done this for quite a while, almost since I got her as a kitten. Beth Anything can attract their attention. Their is tales that cats can see other objects lets say It sounds like a cat leave her be unless she starts running around in circles spewing green foam she is fine > Does anyone else's cat seem to look around at things that aren't there? I > know this sounds like and odd question, but my cat is always stopping dead [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Beth > Anything can attract their attention. Their is tales that cats can see > other objects lets say > > It sounds like a cat leave her be unless she starts running around in > circles spewing green foam she is fine Oh don't say she can see "other objects" because truth be told, it kind of creeps me out sometimes when she does it. Especially when she'll be looking at me and then all of a sudden stares right over me and starts moving her eyes and head around like she's watching something. >Does anyone else's cat seem to look around at things that aren't there? I >know this sounds like and odd question, but my cat is always stopping dead [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >update last week, but she's done this for quite a while, almost since I got >her as a kitten. "There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy [science]." Cats can see, hear, touch, and smell rather a lot more of them than we can. They can see ghosts, see through walls, and in general live in a different world or on a different plane ... at least they want us to believe that.  SignatureT.E.D. (tdavis@gearbox.maem.umr.edu) Remove "gearbox.maem." from address - that one is dead My cats enjoy hunting shadows, lint, grit, dust, loose hairs, and sometimes jsut things existing only in their own imagination :) Have you noticed that sometimes when they do those fake attacks, they look very embarassed (pardon my spelling)? They sit up straight and wash and/or scratch themselves, telling all the world that what just happened was intended, and they were NOT fooled by a shadow at all. (I am the sort of person that would LOVE to believe that cats can see "other objects", but I'm just not able to push myself that far *sigh*) > Does anyone else's cat seem to look around at things that aren't there? I > know this sounds like and odd question, but my cat is always stopping dead [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Beth This reminds me of another post awhile back where a cat was darting around the house acting strange. The poster put the cat down over it then came in here polling for opinions > Does anyone else's cat seem to look around at things that aren't there? I > know this sounds like and odd question, but my cat is always stopping dead [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > update last week, but she's done this for quite a while, almost since I got > her as a kitten. That's normal for cats. They're all insane, but usually in a good way. They do see "other things" as someone else put it. Maybe it's all in their head, I don't know. I wouldn't be surprised if researchers discovered that cats naturally generate a substance similar to LSD. > Beth Bugs. Its bugs. (Not the "bugs crawling under my skin kind" but gnats or something that you can't see.) Remember their eyesight for contrast and small moving stuff is _many times_ more sensitive than yours. Also consider it might be reflections of stuff like car lights, or something reflecting outside. Even a cup full of water outside in your neighbor's yard could put a little moving spot of light somewhere. Plus, they do play "pretend chase" if there is no other cat around to play with (or that has already rebuffed them). It sounds from your description though that your cat sees a very small insect that you don't. It could be a lot closer to them than you think, look right in front of them too, not just where they appear to be looking. >> Does anyone else's cat seem to look around at things that aren't there? >> I know this sounds like and odd question, but my cat is always stopping [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > >> Beth > Bugs. Its bugs. (Not the "bugs crawling under my skin kind" but gnats or > something that you can't see.) [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > insect that you don't. It could be a lot closer to them than you think, look > right in front of them too, not just where they appear to be looking. My eyes are quite good and while cat's may be better, if there were actual bugs, she'd try to get them. She doesn't. I love her, but she's insane just as all cats are. >>>Does anyone else's cat seem to look around at things that aren't there? >>>I know this sounds like and odd question, but my cat is always stopping [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >> >>>Beth >> Does anyone else's cat seem to look around at things that aren't there? Kitty does this all the time. I thought it was "Greeblings" until the light was just right and I saw he was actually watching flying gnats that were too small for me to see. >>> Does anyone else's cat seem to look around at things that aren't there? > > Kitty does this all the time. I thought it was "Greeblings" until the > light was just right and I saw he was actually watching flying gnats that > were too small for me to see. It could be small bugs, but my Butterscotch's nickname is the amazing bug finder. She does find bugs, but when she does it, she doesn't stare. She jumps at them, even if they are on the ceiling, meows incessantly, and it's not just a regular meow, and she stays right with the bug until I get it. Case in point, last night I was woken up by her weird meow and she was pacing in front of my hall door looking up and I came out and she jumped up on my printer so she could be closer to the spider that was crawling along the top of the door. That is her bug catching behavior. She does it for everything from spiders to lady bugs. That's not what she does these other times she just stares. And, by the way, she makes the same noise with lights coming in off the street or when the sun coming through the blinds makes shapes on the ceiling. Pretty much anything she wants at but can't get at she paces around it and makes that noise. These times, she just stares and moves around like she's watching something...and it's always late at night so it creeps me out! But, it is good to know that other people's cats act a little nutty too. > >>> Does anyone else's cat seem to look around at things that aren't there? > > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > at night so it creeps me out! But, it is good to know that other people's > cats act a little nutty too. I have a book that I got at the Vancouver Museum of Art called "Why Cats Paint". It is a hoot about artistic cats and paintings they have done when provided with the right material, but in this book there is some mention of this behaviour you are describing. There is even a theory that the cats have some ability to sense something outside of the five senses we know, but I don't mean paranormal or occult stuff. They find zones (magnetic, geologic, who knows what) as they walk around a room and when they hit that zone (and you might find it tends to happen as they walk through particular points of the house) they either freak out (and get embarassed afterwards by their total inability of explain what just happened) or they zone out (looking like a nap attack or staring into space totally undistractable by anything). They could sit there like that for twenty minutes or even for hours on a nice calm afternoon, and it often happens at the same place. I cannot remember the various detailed explanations of this behaviour, but I have seen it in every cat I have had (seven)....it is the mystery and mystique of cats, and is said to be part of the reason they were worshipped in Egypt and Arabia for so many centuries. ---tension My cats have always done this, and oddly enough I think it is due to their superior hearling ability. I think they hear things outside or in the wall and simply look in the direction of the sound, looking for its source and will probably even follow that sound if it moves. In other words, I think they hear things we either tune out or can't hear and then look for them. I don't think that explains it every time, but I think it's a valid explanation at least part of the time. I also hold that cats can not only see ghosts but are probably possessed at times themselves! -Sherry http://www.fluffynet.com > Does anyone else's cat seem to look around at things that aren't there? I > know this sounds like and odd question, but my cat is always stopping dead [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Beth Now, she is the amazing bug/spider finder. >> My cat can find a bug anywhere in my house and if she can't get to it >> she'll >> sit there and stare at it and make a weird constant meow noise until I >> get >> the bug and she sees me dispose of it. >> Beth Awwwww, you mean mommy! Dontchaknow the cat doesn't want you to DISPOSE of the bug... she wants you to give it to HER! :-) Oh, that post over reminds me! I lived in an old wooden house for most of my childhood, and every autumn we got mice in the walls. Sometimes we humans could hear them scratching away and munching on whatever in the walls, but just as often we would just see the cats staring hard at certain pieces of the wall, and slowly move up or down along the wall. If we had access, we would always place traps near the walls the cats were staring at :) my kitty does this too. she'll be laying on my chest about to fall asleep and then she'll perk up and look over my head. it makes me kind of uneasy because i think my place is haunted (lol :S). but sometimes she'll actually chase things that i can't see.. like they would be if they were trying to catch something on the ground. i've learned to deal with it. Signaturehttp://i7.tinypic.com/24g0snn.jpg my baby. |
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