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froggy
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I often used to wonder if our treasured household pets could maybe see something we couldn't. Over the years family Cats and dogs would stare! not into open space with their mouths open dribbling onto the upholstery - but actually concentrating and almost communicating with the invisible.
In our lounge at home there are quite a few pictures on the wall. In the corner of the room we had a map of shipwrecks around the cornwall coast (sad!). Occasionally one of our cats would go to the chair below the picture, stand on her back paws and paddy onto the front of the picture quite furiously. The picture is quite high on the wall and it would amaze us all when she did it as it seemed quite unnatural. Anyway we inherited another cat a couple of years ago - they don't really get on and don't follow the same social patterns. Last week Sybil (the inherited) climbed onto the back of the same chair for the first time and started to paddy onto the picture. The picture had been changed a couple of years ago but the new one is in the same place. This particular cat is quite old and certainly doesn't exert itself unless it has to.
This was quite spooky. The other side of the wall is my small office where we have had sounds and touching etc. Sybil the cat came in there this week when i was working, she stopped suddenly and stared for about ten seconds at the wall - directly the opposite side to the picture area. She was really concentrating on something and it kept her gaze.
It does make you think how both cats - totally individual personalities seemed to tune in to a particular part of a wall and react in the same way.
It confuses me - has anyone any thoughts on the matter
Froggy
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Lina
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It certainly appears that even from others experiences animals do tend to be "tuned in" to a different level to us and can have a far greater sensitivity in sensing things that we sometimes don't. The same can be said for Children. 
The common thought process of this is because children and animals are not corrupted in the way adults are. i.e. adults have inhibitions 
My 2 cats often used to get "freaked out" and behave strangely for no apparent reason, and it was always in the same place. 
One of my friends swears blind that her cat was standing staring into a mirror (hung on a wall) with its ears pricked up, and she said that her cat was really freaking her out. She said that she observed the cat for a bit - and all of a sudden the mirror fell down from the wall. Brown trousers then occured I'm guessing.... 
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the clark sisters
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Location: Peterborough. UK.
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pets do seem to have an inherent connection with their owners,maybe that also extends to their enviroment.There has been too many instances of "strange behaviour " to categorically ignore.Personally I have witnessed our cats literally jump and fix themselves halfway up a wall,when we heard a loud crash from behind our telly (transpired nothing was there).Your cats seem to know something that you do not.check it out
F.
Pets are an extension of ourselves in lots of ways,they are just more "in tune " with their enviroment,than we are.
Intriging question.F.
what makes us so different?
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Inspector Gadget
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Another theory is that animals have a much more sensitive hearing range than humans and can hear things like infrasound. Somethnig the human ear cannot. Infrasound has been linked to paranormal activity so who knows?
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froggy
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Thanks all for the response! – It does add up - because all animals really do have much more heightened senses – in every sense – than us mere humans. Dogs as well as cats do appear to sense spirit presence, if you read my bits on the Paul Pry in Peterborough you will find a couple of incidences mentioned there.
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rach87
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hmm i remember one time when i was sittin on my sofa in the house alone and all the doors were cloesed windows shut blah blah blah and my dog jus stared barking next to me as if someone was sittin next to me
so i moved my hand over in to the space where my dog was barkin to on the sofa
and it was jus like a block of cold air it was so strange
if i moved my hand out it would be normal tempreture,moved it back to wear my dog was lookin at it went icy cold
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froggy
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Hi Rach
spooky aint it!
but its goooood!
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carrie
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Yeah, my cat is the same, and so have my previous cats been.
My partner had a spooky experience in our house a few weeks back, basically, 'someone' kept switching the hoover off at the wall, and at the same time the cat was freaking out for seemingly no reason, running around and going ballistic. Our cat is rather overweight and quite sedate in her goings on, so this is not normal for her.
She also stares at 'nothing' and we often put our hand or head in the way of her sight, and she will move her head around to see around you, like she can't get enough of whatever it is she is looking at.
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rach87
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ooo scary
if anyone remembers i talked about that man who stands and stares at me and i herd foot prints...remember..
well anyway
where i see this old man stand my dog barks at
that is a bit weird too
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wen i was ill layin on sofa watchin tv the my cat jumped up on my layed down then i moved he woke up and then we he dun that he was watchin somthing on the stairs don't get scared at all used to anyway both of my cats do that they haven't done it for a while cause we have had a change round and they used to jump up on my bed as well see some think in the hall and go and investigate
soz just wanted to say
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I believe my mother's house used to be haunted and my dog used to 'watch' something that I could not see. I heard footsteps at various times but never saw anything. When my nanny died the cat she brought to us started miaowing and making a fuss of 'thin air' - personally I think she was greeting my nanny who had popped back to keep an eye on us...
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hI ALL,
My last cat had to be put down bwcause she had feline lukemea. The night after she had been put down i was wokebn to the feel of animal paws padding on top of me. (like when cats get comfy on you), it was really strange, perhaps she had come to say goodbye....
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froggy
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Funny really tulip
because I have had the same kind of pulling on the bed over the years - the bedroom door has been shut – and the window - cats are out, you wake up and there's nothing there – weird really. Do cats come back in spirit form as humans?
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Lina
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In wiccan beliefs - cats are said to be the only animal to be able to travel between plains.
Certainly begs the question now that you say that froggy.
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froggy
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You know Lena, most cats are quite close companions to those that appreciate them - some of us love them some of us hate them - whether its the close personal contact that forms a kind of a bridge who knows – I suppose its the same for dogs - what about budgies and goldfish!!
God where does it end!
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