Does your cat have superpowers?

[kedrys]

I realized this week that Quark (aka Dave the White) has Scratchdar. He can be in a coma at one end of the house, but if I start petting one of the other cats at the opposite end of the house, he'll be there in 2 seconds flat. It's almost creepy.

I knew about Tunar (all cats have that), but this one's a new one on me.

How about your cat(s)?

[AirmensMom]

1. Sophie has bathdar.

For some reason she likes to sit on the edge of the tub while I'm taking a bath or shower. Then she won't leave until I start up the hair dryer. :shrug: The others sit in another room talking about her: "Do you think Sophie smoked something bad? I would never in a million years get that close to water! I heard she even looks around the shower curtain and TRIES to get her face wet! Poor thing ... she has seriously lost it. :shrug:"

:rofl:

[kedrys]

4. I didn't realize that counts as a superpower

That means Plato has bathdar as well...we had a jacuzzi tub in the ex-house, and he'd sit on the ledge and stare until whoever was in the tub was done with whatever they were doing. He really liked to bat at the bubbles (when used), and almost killed the s.o. when he fell in one time (Plato, not the s.o.) :rofl:

[nickinSTL]

2. of course...

they're cats :evilgrin:

[kedrys]

3. Yeah, but any specifics?

Details! We want details! :rofl:

[koneko]

5. One of mine has "Mumma-dar"

I just moved to the city 10 months ago, and while walking home one day, Beans was perched on the window-sill (she does this alot when I'm home). She was most perplexed when I stopped outside & she saw me there - she couldn't figure out how Mumma could be on the outside of the window.

Now, at least several times a week, as I'm walking down the sidewalk, she'll suddenly appear in the window just as I'm approaching and get the same perplexed look.

I think it's likely something she does every day at the same time to see if I'll appear, and it's just the days my return time is off schedule that I don't see her do it. So perhaps it's time-dar as opposed to mumma-dar. . . :shrug:

[kedrys]

6. That's kinda cool!

I've always wondered about cats' perception of time...I don't think they handle it the same way we do.

[koneko]

7. It is perplexing, especially since the position of the sun changes

She even did it after the spring change of the clocks.

[Ikonoklast]

8. Hobbes, my son's cat

starts meowing and sits by the door five minutes before he gets home.

Every time.

My son works irregular hours, so Hobbes can't be following some sort of kitty schedule. Or the sound of his vehicle; sometimes he gets a ride froma co-worker.

Creeps me out sometimes.

[kedrys]

9. That's what I'm talking about

Some kind of ESP-enhanced perception of time. Sometimes I think they get 2 years' worth of sleep every time they nap. :D

[Arugula Latte]

10. Aw. My mom has a "Hobbes."

Cute orangie.

[SoyCat]

19. My mom's cat is the same way.

[prole_for_peace]

11. my cats have momma-wants-a-nap-dar.

they are nowhere to be found but the minute i stretch out on the couch both of them are there crawling all over me. my couch ins't big enough for me, a regular sized cat and a giant mutant cat to fit all at once. i usually end up going to my room and closing the door.

[Neshanic]

12. No, but the cat in the apartment next to me does.

He telepathically levitates my dog at the most inconvenient times. I hate that.

[LynzM]

23. LMAO

:rofl: That would be soooo annoying!

[jrandom421]

13. Got a few of them

Spike, the oldest, has learned to teleport into locked rooms. I have put him out of the bedroom, locked the door and found him sleeping on my face in the morning. That's some superpower. He's managed to teach it to all our kitties.

Junior has learned to levitate high enough to get the catnip down from the top shelf of the closet.

Tgrr has perfected the science of gravity generation, becoming 20 times heavier than normal when she doesn't want to be moved from somewhere.

All the kitties (especially Spike) have a different type of bathdar. When they all sense it's time to bathe them, they all teleport to another dimension.

Finally, there's Combdar. When we get out the comb to get the tangles out (happens to all long hair kitties) they all teleport away.

[kedrys]

17. I'm familiar with the gravity generation thing

Evie is gravitationally challenged - she uses up and down interchangeably. She's also bigger at night, and she can make herself weigh about 200 lbs at the drop of a hat.

The teleporting is spooky, I'm sure...

[mainegreen]

14. My cats power is similar.

No matter where she is in the house, no matter if she's in a deep coma, you shut the bathroom door (no matter how quitely) she's there at the door the second it closes, digging at the door and whining to get in.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. My cats have an interesting superpower:

It only works at night after I turn out the lights and start to fall asleep. At that point the cats, who are sleeping next to me, grow to the size of water buffaloes and therefore occupy the *entire* bed, leaving me only a tiny space right on the edge. I will wake up and find that these enormous cats have taken over my bed and I'm about to fall on the floor. But if I turn on the light they instantly shrink back to normal cat-size.

[kedrys]

21. Er, how many cats?

I took a nap this afternoon and woke up with 5 cats on the bed (it's a king-size), and I was occupying oh, about 2 sq ft of it. :rofl: I don't think mine changed sizes though.

[benny05]

16. If Reading Kant's Critique of Pure Reason counts

I think it does...

[SoyCat]

18. If my husband and I are going over to my mom's house, Mom's cat will get

up and sit by the door and wait for us. She doesn't even have to tell him we're coming; he just knows.

[uppityperson]

20. 1 of mine can teleport up, land without flexing or any weight changes

UP



all of a sudden she is there, without flexing, without making any noticable thumps.

[kedrys]

22. So, first there's no cat, then there is?

Weird. Now that you mention it, I think a couple of mine do that, but I've always been too spooked to admit it.

[uppityperson]

24. that is it, no toe flexing, no leg flexing, suddenly she is elsewhere up

doesn't shake the bed or couch or bookshelf or table or lap or anything. If you watch from 1 perspective, she disappears. From the other, she appears. Her Highness Miss Lightfoot Poof

[Heidi]

25. Ginger has vetdar.

He _knows_ two days before the appointment that vaccinations and teeth cleaning is coming up, bracketed on each side (of course) by the obligatory and loathed ride in a "cat taxi." We've given up on keeping his appointments a secret from him; now, we just start talking to him about the vet appointment far in advance because it's a non-negotiable deal.

[kedrys]

26. That sounds particularly inconvenient to the humans

Mine know when we're about to go on vacation, usually a few days before. We just took a long weekend out of town, and we packed at the last minute to keep them from geeking, but they still knew.

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