Something has him upset today. He’s normally a pretty good “guard cat…” he always alerts me when someone is coming. He can hear people on my property long before I can, and when someone approaches the house, he growls and runs and hides. Well, he’s been doing that a *lot* today, and numerous investigations have so far failed to turn up any visitors. His tail is all fluffed out and he’s dashing hither and yon. Under the circumstances, I’m keeping an eye on this:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Maps/US10/37.47.-115.-105.php
Nothing of note as yet. Koshka’s not much help in such matters, as she’s *always* kinda spooky. Right now she’s in a distant bedroom screaming at the walls. She does that…
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That’s weird they are all along the rivers, but if they are mag 1 quakes couldn’t that be large rocks being moved in flooded streams?
Maybe they sense the large Hadron collider
Earthquake was my thought when I read the headline. Move the breakables to the floor.
It may be that cats are also sensitive to the local magnetic field — perhaps indirectly, somehow — and are detecting an increase in solar magnetic activity. Maybe not: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
Thanks for the earthquake map page.
have neighbors something new,
like Generator, Transformator, drilling equipment or a grinding lathe ?
cat hear up to 64 kHz
and they DON’T like any unpleasant sound.
I think I figured it out. He started acting spooked around sunup, and stayed that way until the late afternoon. Or in other words, from about the time the anti-waterfowl artillery barrage (known as “hunting season” in the marshland a few miles away) started until approximately the time it stopped.
I hardly notice the gunfire anymore, but something about it set him on edge today. Maybe the wind was blowing in a different direction and changed the sound, dunno.
That would make sense; he might have smelled the burning powder from the shotguns and mistaken it for some sort of grass fire.
If people start reporting UFOs in the vicinity though, watch out – as many times “earthquake lights” are reported as UFOs.
If there were an earthquake imminent though, you would think all the cats would be acting up.
Did some animal get into the house from outdoors that you don’t know about?
> he might have smelled the burning powder from the shotguns and mistaken it for some sort of grass fire.
Unlikely. The gunfire was miles away, while at various times of the year local farms, thousands of acres, are burned to the ground, producing a sceme right out of Dante… and that doesn;t seem to bpother him much.
As for critters… mice get in, maybe he tangled with one and it scared him. I’ve never actually seen him with a mouse, so I don’t know how he’d respond.
Never had the earthquake, did you? Had it happened, your laptop might have been a way to detect it, too:
http://www.livescience.com/technology/laptop-earthquake-detectors-100323.html