Cat weirdness

[roadie gal]

as entertaining as these suggestions are, i suspect a dog had been nearby, or a bear or a coyote or whatever sort of critters are in your area. Lacking dogs i respect my cats' opinions of what is going on outside since they can smell and hear better than i can, and in the dark they can see better too.

We have been seeing a lot of coyotes lately, even in the middle of the day. There was one that would go across the backyard at noon for a while. That's a possibility.

My cats used to do that a day or two before we would have an earthquake.

They've done that, too, but they usually hide under the bed.

That does creep me out. Roadie Gal, what part of No. Cal. are you in? I'm right near the Hayward fault which averages a major quake every 140 years & it's been 141 years since the last big one . . .

I'm up near Lake Tahoe. We have had some very small earthquakes here, generally not more than a 3. The cats will panic before the quake, but they don't act like this. They hide under the bed.