Sometimes my cats will suddenly perk up their heads, run to the window or patio door and stare out at the air.

[MIButterfly]

I go to see what's out there and there's absolutely nothing, no cat, no squirrel, no mouse, no bird, no leaf. One night, they ran to the patio door and just sat there, completely silent, motionless, staring out at the patio. Even though I suspected there wouldn't be anything out there, I went to the door and turned the light on and there, sitting right inside the gate, was a cat that looked EXACTLY like my previous cat Boots! It took my breath away! I just stared at that cat. I couldn't believe it. Then I thought I'd get some food for the cat but he looked too healthy to be a stray. I thought he must be someone's housecat. So the four of us just stood there staring at each other. I finally went back to the couch and eventually my cats left the patio door and went back to doing their cat things.

I don't know where that cat came from and I've never seen him again, but I still think about it from time to time.

[Bayard]

1. They usually do that late at night,

When you're watching a scary movie by yourself.

[Ocelot II]

2. Cats have access to other universes. Sometimes they slip through portals

and disappear completely, causing you to panic and put up lost cat posters all over your neighborhood, until they suddenly appear at your feet with a look like, Yeah, what?? And sometimes they just stay where they are and stare through the portal, considering what's going on in that other universe. The strange cat who looked like Boots probably was Boots, looking at your cats through the portal as they stared back..

[LastDemocratInSC]

3. Cats can hear sounds at frequencies that are far above what we can hear.

[tazcat]

4. Last nite Lara was just staring at the corner, I think they see ghosts.

And Little Ricky wouldn't go down in the den for anything! This has been such a strange house.

[Golden Raisin]

5. In the summer my cat would sometime stop, perk

her head, then scoot under the bed or somewhere else for safety. Then there would be a lightning strike and huge thunder clap.

[zuul]

6. I always know when the mail is about to be delivered

because the cats all perk up. They can hear the mail carrier open the wrought iron gate but I can’t hear it.