Cat Hallucinations

I think our cat, Slayer, occasionally suffers from hallucinations, as she will sit there and rapidly look from one place to another as if she is watching something, but there is nothing there....

She is also very jumpy and nervous, and will startle often when you come near or if there is any kind of sudden noise. This may sound relatively reasonable, but the same sudden noises or appearances of people will, at the same time, not startle me.

She often gets in "pinball" moods, where she will run backwards and forwards through rooms and through the house, generally stopping before she hits things, just bouncing off and obstacle and going back more or less the way she came. Often obstacles like couches and tables will be approached and climbed as if they were merely more flat ground with no loss of speed.

Sometimes she will run towards an obstacle and jump and put her feet on it to springboard herself back the way she came, like when you approach the end of a swimming pool, put your feet on the side and push off again. Except out of water and running full speed.

She likes to lie on the ground and grab onto your feet if you step over her and she won't let go and will be quite vicious if you try and make her. It is fine to step around her except when she lies across the top of the stairs, especially difficult because due to the difference in ground levels on each side you cannot simply lift your leg higher so she can't get it.

This is Slayer now, lying on the ground. You can just see the bug she is playing with, near her nose.

Comments

aynz said…
But she's so cute! I remember when I came to stay and she attacked my foot and I just stood there and laughed. (At the time she wasn't that much bigger than my foot...) She looked a bit insulted at that reaction. ;-)
thursdays child said…
Phoenix does the SAME THING. Its really weird - like he's gone into some "woah my hand are SOOOOO BIG" mode... I should check his waterbowl.

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