Science Cat is Scientific

[muninnhuginn]

I have similar experiences to this article with Mr Socks: http://gizmodo.com/your-cat-can-grasp-some-basic-laws-of-physics-1782125637.
When he's playing by knocking objects off shelves, tables and the piano, if you catch the falling object before it hits the ground, he waits. His ears are pricked and he sits there waiting for the noise of the object hitting the ground instead of going straight on to his next target.

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[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

When we still lived in London, our then tomcat Kosh used to think it was a great game to come bring us his stuffed mouse when we were in bed. From our bed we could toss this toy out through the door and down the landing.

Kosh would take off at high speed, chasing down the landign and trying to catch it before skidding rather unceremoniously to a halt before the wall at the far end. Or sometimes into the wall.

(No carpet - wood laminate - but he'd start the run from on top of the bed, which gave him better acceleration.)

Having caught it, he would trot back in, passing under the bed and popping up on the far side from the door, when he would drop it again.

But one time his faith was ruined. I lobbed it down the landing, he took off after it ... and it never landed. It had managed to pass upwards through the opening in the bottom of a large lampshade, and got caught up in there.

I'm not sure whether he ever gave us a dirtier look than then.

[muninnhuginn]

Lovely.

Cause and effect--cats definitely gets it.