I have a question for cat owners

[sakabatou]

Anybody have a cat that hunts for prey that isn't there?

[Ocelot II]

1. How do you know the prey isn't there?

Cats see things we don’t see.

[sakabatou]

2. She was searching and pawing under my bureau for something.

I opened the bottom drawer and there was nothing. No mouse. I even checked behind. No mouse.

[Ocelot II]

5. Cats have access to portals to alternate universes.

She could have been stalking something that got out. You never know.

[MLAA]

15. I like that explanation.

[MyMission]

3. Stalking shadows and leaves,

Or spaced where spiders and bugs might fly by. My car does that sometimes.

[sakabatou]

4. Your car stalks things?

[Thomas Hurt]

13. Maybe it is a Jaguar.

[MLAA]

16. ...

[MyMission]

14. Woops! My cat stalks, but my car

Sometimes it seems my car drives me on a route I hadn't planned to take, and it's a Toyota, not a Tesla.

[dweller]

6. Practice

Same way it was taught


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[Laffy Kat]

7. Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it's not there.

Kittehs see "things" we can't.

[Archae]

8. One of my cats stalked a mouse that was hidden in the walls.

She would just stare at the wall, later I saw mouse prints in the snow on my windowsill outside.

My cat Raven is a real bug catcher.

[Silent Type]

9. She's fking with you. Payback for red laser dots.

[sakabatou]

21. We never used laser dots with her

[spooky3]

10. Is there an area under your bureau?

There might be a toy or small object she pushed under there.

[ShazzieB]

11. Cats definitely stalk things that are undetectable to humans.

But "undetectable to humans" =/= nonexistent. Not only can cats see things we don't notice; they can smell all kinds of things that are imperceptible to us. I figure if I really need to know about it, I'll find out eventually.

P.S. Memo to autocorrect: please stop changing "cats" to "cars." The cats don't appreciate it, and neither do I!

[TreasonousBastard]

12. And their hearing is way beyond ours. Not only can they hear things...

too soft for us to hear, they can hear registers and tones we can't. Spooky when your cat listens intently to an insect walking in your walls.

[MLAA]

17. SnazzieB

ÁUTOcorrect loves to change into cars, I mean the name says it all!

[sakabatou]

18. Update: there was a mouse.

[303squadron]

19. Cat ears

Cats have incredible hearing. They can hear two octaves above human abilities and one octave above what dogs can hear.

[Rebl2]

20. My current cat

gets so excited when leaves blow across the deck. She also attacks shadows on the wall and occasionally on the floor. The one thing that she and the last two cats we had have done is sit at the bottom of the stairs and look up the stairs like they are watching something. Don’t know what they see or maybe hear, but kind of odd and interesting.