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TwistedFate · 08-09-2003, 01:38 AM

Any cat owners ever paid attention to your cat and what they do sometimes? I'm referring to a specific behavior that all the cats I've ever had have displayed, looking at a wall or the ceiling where nothing is. I mean staring at it hard and even moving their heads a little as if tracking something moving. I know they will follow a spot of light or shadow on the wall the same way, but I'm talking about when there is nothing that I can see there.

Are they just wierd or could they be seeing things that human eyes can't perceive, like spirts and whatnot?

J.R.V.A. · 08-09-2003, 08:31 AM

I know they know not to hang out by chinese resturants.

JadziaDax · 08-09-2003, 09:03 AM

How about how they can sense really bad storms before they start? Like a tornado or severe thunderstorm with hail.

My cat will not leave my side when a really bad storm is on it's way... and you can't say it's how I am reacting to it, because sometimes I don't even know the storm is going to be that bad.

TwistedFate · 08-09-2003, 09:42 AM

I can deal with the storm thing. Most animals display some type of foreknowledge of weather change.

My family raises cows and before a storm they will always head towards the woods as a herd to get out of it before it ever starts.

WhoaitsZ · 08-09-2003, 12:57 PM

animals' perceptions are normally vastly different from ours.

-shrug-

^dude · 08-09-2003, 01:48 PM

I'm sure my cat was very smart, he freaked me out sometimes, especially with his glowing eyes! But yeah i'm sure they're very smart animals.

Xell101 · 08-09-2003, 04:44 PM

They had a different evolutionary track so I believe they have sense and perceptions we haven't found yet therefore are totally oblivious to and believe to be super special or something of that sort.

macmanmike6100 · 08-09-2003, 05:07 PM

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Originally posted by JadziaDax
How about how they can sense really bad storms before they start? Like a tornado or severe thunderstorm with hail.

My cat will not leave my side when a really bad storm is on it's way... and you can't say it's how I am reacting to it, because sometimes I don't even know the storm is going to be that bad.

Living beings are generally sensitive to changes in the environment (http://www.fitnesspastfifty.com/article1035_2.html). Just as bacteria will react to differences in acidity, insects and mammals can detect differences in macro-weather, such as temperature, humidity, and barometric pressure.

Thousands of years of evolution have given creatures a standard but, to us, a strange ability to sense the environment. We, on the other hand, can sense what we need to and, often, nothing more.

tehblaed · 08-09-2003, 10:21 PM

Cats are also very sensitive to sound as well - They can hear and feel bass as low as 10hz I believe. That thunderclap that happened 5 minutes ago and 40 miles away, your cat just felt that. It's the same with Earthquakes and fish - Japanese people report their fish jumping out of the aquariums when an earthquake is about to happen - this is because of the fish's extreme sensitivity to minute vibrations.

Beltruckus · 08-10-2003, 10:48 AM

Maybe they are thinking? I know when i'm thinking hard i will just stare at nothing... Or maybe they are listening more than they are looking, listening for small rodents or other things that will give them something to do.

irseg · 08-10-2003, 11:42 AM

My dog does the same stuff.

One night I was sitting at the computer in my bedroom, and she was asleep on my bed. She abruptly woke up and stared at an area towards the top of my bedroom door for about 5 minutes with her tail between her legs. Then she'd try to get calmed down and go back to sleep, only to repeat the exact same thing. This went on for about 2 hours. I didn't notice anything whatsoever.

The really weird part was when the same thing happened again 6 months later. She woke up from a deep sleep and stared at that exact same spot. Animals are weird.

She can also detect thunderstorms amazingly well. She will run and hide in a kitchen cabinet or under a table, then about 15 minutes later I'll hear the slightest sound of thunder in the distance.

anti fishstick · 08-10-2003, 06:35 PM

cats are very zen

Katyblu · 08-11-2003, 04:48 PM

Who knows with cats? Perhaps this is why they used to be worshiped in Egypt and other places.... It could be they see things we cannot. I think if they sense something bad in "air" they will either hide to protect themselves or come to your side to protect you.

nickdman · 08-11-2003, 06:05 PM

Yes!

I remeber my cat went crazy several hours before October 17th 1989, 5:04pm.

It was like it knew to get out of the house.

Beltruckus · 08-11-2003, 06:10 PM

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Originally posted by nickdman
Yes!

I remeber my cat went crazy several hours before October 17th 1989, 5:04pm.

It was like it knew to get out of the house.

I'm sorry, but what happend on that date? I 8 at the time and didn't keep up on current events.

majie · 08-11-2003, 06:16 PM

did you ever think maybe <i>you</i> need glasses?

majie · 08-11-2003, 06:17 PM

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Originally posted by Beltruckus
I'm sorry, but what happend on that date? I 8 at the time and didn't keep up on current events.

hint: World Series was just starting in San Fran

rl33 · 08-11-2003, 06:19 PM

I feel my cat definitely sees things. I know that it's not just lights on the wall either cause a lot of times it will follow whatever it's staring at right into somplace that has no light at all.

Beltruckus · 08-11-2003, 06:23 PM

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Originally posted by majie
hint: World Series was just starting in San Fran

Ok since you mention San Francisco i will assume the Big earthquake, Man i barely remember that, In all honesty i don't think i really cared, except for seeing all the damage that looked cool, does that make me a bad person?

Beltruckus · 08-11-2003, 06:24 PM

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Originally posted by rl33
I feel my cat definitely sees things. I know that it's not just lights on the wall either cause a lot of times it will follow whatever it's staring at right into somplace that has no light at all.

Cats eyes are different how do you know you are looking at the SPECIFIC spot he/she is staring at. They also don't see colors like you do, that might have something to do with it as well.

muckluck · 08-11-2003, 06:55 PM

My dog woke up in the middle of the night for no reason, and stared at the bookshelf in my room and started howling. It was 1:20 AM and it scared the shit outta my girlfriend that was sleepinf over. My dog has only done that once since then.

348Dav · 08-13-2003, 01:08 AM

My cat does this and just to throw something out there......

Maybe they see ghosts.

BentNotTwisted · 08-13-2003, 10:28 AM

I have two cats and have seen them do this on rare occasions. Cat's have much better eyesight than humans. Maybe the cat is just watching a piece of dust floating in the air. When a cat is staring at nothing in particular and then arches its back and starts hissing, then it's time to get worried!

nogoodreason · 08-13-2003, 11:22 AM

I'm pretty sure that one of my cat knows who is and who isn't alergic to her. The sadistic bitch.

Beltruckus · 08-13-2003, 11:34 AM

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Originally posted by BentNotTwisted
I have two cats and have seen them do this on rare occasions. Cat's have much better eyesight than humans. Maybe the cat is just watching a piece of dust floating in the air. When a cat is staring at nothing in particular and then arches its back and starts hissing, then it's time to get worried!

Actually they don't have better eyesight, they can see in the night better than us. They do have better hearing and smell though. Not eyesight.

TerresqueÜ · 08-13-2003, 02:14 PM

I have 7 cats, thier always staring off into space and nothingness on walls. It's kinda wierd but I never really noticed it as anything. It's true they have developed a totally different range of senses than us over thier evolution.

galaxygirl · 08-13-2003, 03:13 PM

My cats don't seem to react to the ghost that inhabits my place. They are just as comfortable in the room that gives sensitive people the creeps as they are in the rest of the house.

My favorite odd cat behavior is when they go tearing hell for leather after nothing in particular.

nash · 08-14-2003, 08:31 AM

I think cats do all that stuff because they know us humans will try to find a reason for what they do. Then when we are gone, they laugh at us =(

jujueye · 08-14-2003, 11:10 AM

Britney the cat is my hero. Go, baby. Taste the human blood.

http://www.mycathatesyou.com/newlist.asp

Main page is at http://www.mycathatesyou.com/

Foopius2 · 08-14-2003, 12:27 PM

yea, as some people said, they can pick up light where we cannot, so maybe they are just watching a reflective piece of dust floating down.

how about when cats' eyes randomly start glowing and then they attack your feet.

i also saw this article on an epileptic whose dog could sense the seizures coming, and would bite her wrist before they came, so she knew to get in an open area etc.

prosequence · 08-14-2003, 07:10 PM

My cats breathe smells like catfood.

h2ogo69 · 08-15-2003, 12:07 AM

yeah cats are supernatural i think their held in esteem for those abilitys in sum countries

Beltruckus · 08-15-2003, 08:14 AM

Please explain what about them makes them "Supernatural"

Dictionay Definition:

1. Of or relating to existence outside the natural world.
Attributed to a power that seems to violate or go beyond natural forces.
2. Of or relating to a deity.
3. Of or relating to the immediate exercise of divine power; miraculous.
4. Of or relating to the miraculous.

h2ogo69 · 08-15-2003, 11:29 AM

i menat the first one thier perception isnt normal

morlock · 08-15-2003, 11:45 AM

Also, why do they randomly spas, like their sitting there, then with nothing to agitate them, they run off like a bat out of hell around the table up the couch or something, and then after a while they're all freaked then go back to sleep?

prosequence · 08-15-2003, 01:40 PM

They also know what cat butt tastes like..... clever little things....

Beltruckus · 08-18-2003, 08:28 AM

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Originally posted by morlock
Also, why do they randomly spas, like their sitting there, then with nothing to agitate them, they run off like a bat out of hell around the table up the couch or something, and then after a while they're all freaked then go back to sleep?

if they were outside they would run to the nearest tree and scratch it to sharpen their claws, basically it's to burn off excess energy. Also has something to do with showing their superiority.

jumpingbeans · 08-18-2003, 11:57 AM

1 cat - 2 dogs.....
It can be a little creepy walking into a room and "YES" all three are looking at (something ) all moving thier heads in the same manner.....
I am not a Ghost believer but that will make you think twice.....3 times
VERY DAMN WIERD

telekinetic2 · 08-18-2003, 06:57 PM

Don't know if cat's are supernatural or not, but their vision is definitely different then ours...that could result in them seeing things that we don't.

shakran · 08-19-2003, 09:15 AM

keep in mind cats have very sharp eyesight. It could be tracking a speck of dust in the air that you with your comparitively poor eyesight can't see.

08-09-2003, 01:38 AM	#1 (permalink)
TwistedFate Crazy	Do cats know something we don't? Any cat owners ever paid attention to your cat and what they do sometimes? I'm referring to a specific behavior that all the cats I've ever had have displayed, looking at a wall or the ceiling where nothing is. I mean staring at it hard and even moving their heads a little as if tracking something moving. I know they will follow a spot of light or shadow on the wall the same way, but I'm talking about when there is nothing that I can see there. Are they just wierd or could they be seeing things that human eyes can't perceive, like spirts and whatnot? __________________ If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

08-09-2003, 08:31 AM	#2 (permalink)
J.R.V.A. Junkie Location: Utah	I know they know not to hang out by chinese resturants. __________________ And as she plays, her sweet song of laughter floats through the air and warms my heart

08-09-2003, 09:42 AM	#4 (permalink)
TwistedFate Crazy	I can deal with the storm thing. Most animals display some type of foreknowledge of weather change. My family raises cows and before a storm they will always head towards the woods as a herd to get out of it before it ever starts. __________________ If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

08-10-2003, 10:48 AM	#10 (permalink)
Beltruckus Psycho Location: Salt Lake City	Maybe they are thinking? I know when i'm thinking hard i will just stare at nothing... Or maybe they are listening more than they are looking, listening for small rodents or other things that will give them something to do. __________________ The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings. Words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out. -Stephen King

08-10-2003, 06:35 PM	#12 (permalink)
anti fishstick Post-modernism meets Individualism AKA the Clash Location: oregon	cats are very zen __________________ And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~Anais Nin

08-09-2003, 09:03 AM	#3 (permalink)
JadziaDax Loser Location: who the fuck cares?	How about how they can sense really bad storms before they start? Like a tornado or severe thunderstorm with hail. My cat will not leave my side when a really bad storm is on it's way... and you can't say it's how I am reacting to it, because sometimes I don't even know the storm is going to be that bad.

08-09-2003, 12:57 PM	#5 (permalink)
WhoaitsZ Crazy Location: right behind you...	animals' perceptions are normally vastly different from ours. -shrug-

08-09-2003, 01:48 PM	#6 (permalink)
^dude Insane	I'm sure my cat was very smart, he freaked me out sometimes, especially with his glowing eyes! But yeah i'm sure they're very smart animals.

08-09-2003, 04:44 PM	#7 (permalink)
Xell101 Junkie	They had a different evolutionary track so I believe they have sense and perceptions we haven't found yet therefore are totally oblivious to and believe to be super special or something of that sort.

08-09-2003, 10:21 PM	#9 (permalink)
tehblaed Insane Location: land of the merry	Cats are also very sensitive to sound as well - They can hear and feel bass as low as 10hz I believe. That thunderclap that happened 5 minutes ago and 40 miles away, your cat just felt that. It's the same with Earthquakes and fish - Japanese people report their fish jumping out of the aquariums when an earthquake is about to happen - this is because of the fish's extreme sensitivity to minute vibrations.

08-10-2003, 11:42 AM	#11 (permalink)
irseg Junkie Location: Florida	My dog does the same stuff. One night I was sitting at the computer in my bedroom, and she was asleep on my bed. She abruptly woke up and stared at an area towards the top of my bedroom door for about 5 minutes with her tail between her legs. Then she'd try to get calmed down and go back to sleep, only to repeat the exact same thing. This went on for about 2 hours. I didn't notice anything whatsoever. The really weird part was when the same thing happened again 6 months later. She woke up from a deep sleep and stared at that exact same spot. Animals are weird. She can also detect thunderstorms amazingly well. She will run and hide in a kitchen cabinet or under a table, then about 15 minutes later I'll hear the slightest sound of thunder in the distance.

08-11-2003, 04:48 PM	#13 (permalink)
Katyblu Crazy Location: Here and there and everywhere	Who knows with cats? Perhaps this is why they used to be worshiped in Egypt and other places.... It could be they see things we cannot. I think if they sense something bad in "air" they will either hide to protect themselves or come to your side to protect you.

08-11-2003, 06:05 PM	#14 (permalink)
nickdman Upright Location: Hell a.k.a. Stockton	Yes! I remeber my cat went crazy several hours before October 17th 1989, 5:04pm. It was like it knew to get out of the house. __________________ There once was a man from Nantucket, His ......

08-11-2003, 06:16 PM	#16 (permalink)
majie devotee Location: somewhere inside my head	did you ever think maybe <i>you</i> need glasses?

08-11-2003, 06:19 PM	#18 (permalink)
rl33 Tilted Location: Hawaii	I feel my cat definitely sees things. I know that it's not just lights on the wall either cause a lot of times it will follow whatever it's staring at right into somplace that has no light at all.

08-11-2003, 06:55 PM	#21 (permalink)
muckluck Psycho	My dog woke up in the middle of the night for no reason, and stared at the bookshelf in my room and started howling. It was 1:20 AM and it scared the shit outta my girlfriend that was sleepinf over. My dog has only done that once since then. __________________

08-13-2003, 01:08 AM	#22 (permalink)
348Dav Tilted Location: Anaheim	My cat does this and just to throw something out there...... Maybe they see ghosts.

08-13-2003, 10:28 AM	#23 (permalink)
BentNotTwisted Optimistic Skeptic Location: Midway between a Beehive and Centennial	I have two cats and have seen them do this on rare occasions. Cat's have much better eyesight than humans. Maybe the cat is just watching a piece of dust floating in the air. When a cat is staring at nothing in particular and then arches its back and starts hissing, then it's time to get worried! __________________ IS THAT IT ???!!! Do you even know what 'it' is? When the last man dies for just words that he said... We Shall Be Free

08-13-2003, 11:22 AM	#24 (permalink)
nogoodreason Insane Location: in your imagination	I'm pretty sure that one of my cat knows who is and who isn't alergic to her. The sadistic bitch. __________________ I'm not sarcastic. I mean it.

08-13-2003, 02:14 PM	#26 (permalink)
TerresqueÜ Hiding Out	I have 7 cats, thier always staring off into space and nothingness on walls. It's kinda wierd but I never really noticed it as anything. It's true they have developed a totally different range of senses than us over thier evolution. __________________ Say yes to the 'Tilted Roleplaying' Forum http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1932&highlight=petition

08-13-2003, 03:13 PM	#27 (permalink)
galaxygirl Insane Location: NH	My cats don't seem to react to the ghost that inhabits my place. They are just as comfortable in the room that gives sensitive people the creeps as they are in the rest of the house. My favorite odd cat behavior is when they go tearing hell for leather after nothing in particular. __________________ Drawing strength from His acceptance, offering all that I am and ever will be

08-14-2003, 08:31 AM	#28 (permalink)
nash Psycho	I think cats do all that stuff because they know us humans will try to find a reason for what they do. Then when we are gone, they laugh at us =(

08-14-2003, 11:10 AM	#29 (permalink)
jujueye alpaca lunch for the trip Location: in my computer	Britney the cat is my hero. Go, baby. Taste the human blood. http://www.mycathatesyou.com/newlist.asp Main page is at http://www.mycathatesyou.com/

08-14-2003, 12:27 PM	#30 (permalink)
Foopius2 Banned	yea, as some people said, they can pick up light where we cannot, so maybe they are just watching a reflective piece of dust floating down. how about when cats' eyes randomly start glowing and then they attack your feet. i also saw this article on an epileptic whose dog could sense the seizures coming, and would bite her wrist before they came, so she knew to get in an open area etc.

08-14-2003, 07:10 PM	#31 (permalink)
prosequence Psycho Location: YOUR MOM!!	My cats breathe smells like catfood.

08-15-2003, 12:07 AM	#32 (permalink)
h2ogo69 Banned	yeah cats are supernatural i think their held in esteem for those abilitys in sum countries

08-15-2003, 08:14 AM	#33 (permalink)
Beltruckus Psycho Location: Salt Lake City	Please explain what about them makes them "Supernatural" Dictionay Definition: 1. Of or relating to existence outside the natural world. Attributed to a power that seems to violate or go beyond natural forces. 2. Of or relating to a deity. 3. Of or relating to the immediate exercise of divine power; miraculous. 4. Of or relating to the miraculous. __________________ The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings. Words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out. -Stephen King

08-15-2003, 11:29 AM	#34 (permalink)
h2ogo69 Banned	i menat the first one thier perception isnt normal

08-15-2003, 11:45 AM	#35 (permalink)
morlock Loser	Also, why do they randomly spas, like their sitting there, then with nothing to agitate them, they run off like a bat out of hell around the table up the couch or something, and then after a while they're all freaked then go back to sleep?

08-15-2003, 01:40 PM	#36 (permalink)
prosequence Psycho Location: YOUR MOM!!	They also know what cat butt tastes like..... clever little things.... __________________ And now here I stand because of you, Mister Anderson, because of you I'm no longer an agent of the system, because of you I've changed...

08-18-2003, 11:57 AM	#38 (permalink)
jumpingbeans Tilted	1 cat - 2 dogs..... It can be a little creepy walking into a room and "YES" all three are looking at (something ) all moving thier heads in the same manner..... I am not a Ghost believer but that will make you think twice.....3 times VERY DAMN WIERD __________________ USA, USA,USA, USA,USA, USA,USA, USA,USA, USA,USA, USA,USA, USA,USA, USA,USA, USA,USA, USA,USA, USA,USA, USA,USA, USA,

08-18-2003, 06:57 PM	#39 (permalink)
telekinetic2 Loser	Don't know if cat's are supernatural or not, but their vision is definitely different then ours...that could result in them seeing things that we don't.

08-19-2003, 09:15 AM	#40 (permalink)
shakran Tone.	keep in mind cats have very sharp eyesight. It could be tracking a speck of dust in the air that you with your comparitively poor eyesight can't see.