We've all seen cats and mirror vids I'm sure but this one is a little different I thought.
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Mirror and cat
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Awww. What a gentle cat.
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Is there a consensus on whether cats pass the mirror test, i.e., recognize it's their reflection(all cats, no cats, or just some cats)?
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Just in my experience all of my cats have recognized themselves or even me in the mirror. My Boogie used to like staring at me thru the mirror. Our new cat Nugget sleeps by a big mirror and look at me thru the mirror with his back turned to me as well. They never tried to interact with theirs nor my reflection in the mirror.
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This has been my experience too, though I've only got one example to go by. It sure looks like my cat looks at me through the mirror. And she certainly doesn't act like she thinks it's another cat in there. But when I did a little googling, a lot of articles came up suggesting cats are not among the animals that pass the mirror test, or at least there's no clear evidence they are, which I thought was strange.
Awww! Thank you for this. Sooo funny and cute. It immediately reminded me of the old comedy routine gag, “Mirror image”. Harpo Marx and Lucille Ball did one that had hand to hand imaging that came to mind with the paw on paw images here. No one could do it better than a cat!
Blue sits on the dresser on front of the mirror and will watch my hand come towards him in the mirror but turns to grab my hand and not the hand mirror reflection..they are aware of what a reflection is for sure once they get used to it.
