Reply #15: Robbery

[HockeyMom]

Several years ago my neighbor's house was broken into. They smashed in the door with a crowbar in broad daylight. Myself and several other neighbors were home at the time. We did not hear a thing. However, I was upstairs with my two cats. While I said getting dressed with the radio BLASTING, one cat froze in the middle of his tracks and then ran like lightening under the bed. The other cat ran at high speed down the stairs and into the basement. At the time, I could not understand what had frightened them so much. Nothing in OUR house was going on. When the police came to my house later that night to question me about the break in, I just mentioned in passing about my cats. They asked me WHAT TIME it was when the cats acted strange. The policeman used that time on his report as the POSSIBLE TIME of the robbery. He said to me, "Animals can sense and hear things that humans cannot. The cats probably heard that noise and knew it was not something NORMAL among the neighborhood sounds."