Is Your Cat Intuitive?

[OrdinaryTa]

Does your cat somehow know things in ways you don't quite understand? Mickey was the most intuitive cat I ever met. He'd wake up startled from his nap 5 minutes before Dad would come home for lunch, and he'd wait by the door. Dad didn't have a regular schedule, but somehow Mickey always knew. My brother's cat Tigger is the same way - he gets up and goes to the window, and he's never wrong.

Traits that provide a genetic advantage are passed on, and intuition is certainly one of them. Because cats have relatively short lives, there are many more cat generations than human generations. Cats may be more advanced in ways for which there's no human counterpart. For example, bats developed radar long before we had a clue such a thing was possible. They fly around in total darkness through echolocation, bouncing sound off the wall. Cats may have more ways to perceive reality than the five senses we know about.

There are stories of dogs expressing grief for no apparent reason. It later turns out that somebody close to them died 400 miles away. Or dogs who know who's on the phone while it's still ringing. Then there are stories of house pets that turn up missing just before the family moves to the West Coast. Three months later, the animal shows up at the door!

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1. I once had a Burmese

Every morning he would lay on my chest and begin licking my chin five minutes before my alarm would go off. After a few weeks of this I stopped setting my alarm.

[Love Bug]

2. They can read your mind!

At least my cats can. They always know when I'm about to give them medication or stuff them in the cat carrier. Man, they get scarce when I start thinking about doing something they don't like.