Extra Sensory Pets

[nutopia]

has anyone noticed that dogs & cats seem to have psychic abilities? ( no I'm not tripping )

I have suspected this for some time, & I saw a TV show where a video camera was set up in the home of pet owners returning home

every time the ppl would return (even at different times of the day), their dogs would get anxious & excited, somehow knowing their masters were about to walk thru the door, even when the ppl were still miles away

+ how do lost pets find their way home over hundreds of miles, as has often been reported?

[Fulghum]

My dog knows when he's about to be fed.....Oh wait.. he eats more than the Russsian army.. He always ready to be fed... Never mind.

[Wing'd Icarus]

my cat's just an old fart and total bastard. frankly, i don't care what he senses, he should just shut the hell up.

[Bride of a Bull]

ESP my eye!

It's a fact that dogs have incredibly sensitive noses and can detect smells from miles away, with the right wind. I sometimes wonder how dogs in cities cope with the chaos of odours and aromas assaulting their senses. Bloodhounds must have it really bad.

Cats I don't know about, but suspect some other scientific explanation.

[Fulghum]

Cats is just weird..........

[Wing'd Icarus]

you mean the broadway show?

[stratman]

Also dogs have keen hearing. I used to have a German Shepard/Chow mix (Mutt) who could hear my car coming (amid all the other traffic) probably 5 minutes before I got home. At least I assumed it was a hearing thing. Maybe my dog really was psychic.

[Fulghum]

Originally posted by Wing'd Icarus
you mean the broadway show?

Yeah, that too.

[Bride of a Bull]

Perhaps, stratters, you just had a very smelly car ...or maybe, something about the car that's smelly.

(harumph...see what you get comparing J toot, toot Tootsie)

[FloydWright]

About hearing the car come home, my family had a couple of cats that would get excited when they heard my dad's car come home...for some reason, we seemed to have cats that behaved like dogs. I think it might have been because my dad liked dogs and practically trained the cats to become substitute canines.

[stratman]

Originally posted by Bride of a Bull
Perhaps, stratters, you just had a very smelly car ...or maybe, something about the car that's smelly.

(harumph...see what you get comparing J toot, toot Tootsie)

OK. You and J have your revenge.

As for strange behavior by cats, I had a cat once that used to climb into trees and try to "chirp" like a bird. (was fairly convincing, too) I assumed he was trying to lure lunch, since he loved to eat sparrows. Kind of the Ted Nugent of the feline world.

[Fulghum]

What was his name?

Sweaty Teddy
Ferocious Theodocious
The Motor City Madcat

[stratman]

We called him "Heinie"

He also liked to catch field mice, then "store" them so they could "age" properly, then enjoy "mouse-jerky".

[HentaiCarrot]

I had a cat that was raised by my dog and would bark like a dog and act like one...One day he tried to hump my dog.....
We called him Moby.
Oh wait...ESP?
Nevermind......

[BraveUlysses]

Yeah, when no one is home, my cat will get up on her hind legs and start drinking beer. Then she checks out the sports page, gets angry, and curses in cat lingo. I've got it all on tape.