Elliott was a stray that we took in last November.
He was about 18 months old at the time.
He took to being an indoor cat basically overnight.
He loves to look out the window and "bark" at the birds and any cats, dogs or people who he sees walking down the street.
He doesn't claw the screen if the windows are open and doesn't claw at the windows if they're shut.
After a slow introduction to our other cats he had free run of the house.
For the first 3 or 4 months he was fine.
About May of this year he started to sit on our dresser or vanity and push on the mirror with his paws...this happened day and night.
I just assumed he was seeing himself and couldn't understand why that "other" cat wasn't responding to him.
It got so bad that I had to put sheets over the mirrors so he wouldn't break them.
I took the sheets off a week of so later and he never botherd the mirrors again...until last night.
He was really going to town on the dresser mirror at 4 AM this morning.
I guess I'll either have to put the sheets back up or do my "Can of pennies" trick to stop him.
The girls have both seen themselves in the mirror but they don't freak out the way Elliott does.
I just wondered if anyone else has a cat that does this and even if you don't, if anyone thinks that he really does think that his reflection is another cat?
He was about 18 months old at the time.
He took to being an indoor cat basically overnight.
He loves to look out the window and "bark" at the birds and any cats, dogs or people who he sees walking down the street.
He doesn't claw the screen if the windows are open and doesn't claw at the windows if they're shut.
After a slow introduction to our other cats he had free run of the house.
For the first 3 or 4 months he was fine.
About May of this year he started to sit on our dresser or vanity and push on the mirror with his paws...this happened day and night.
I just assumed he was seeing himself and couldn't understand why that "other" cat wasn't responding to him.
It got so bad that I had to put sheets over the mirrors so he wouldn't break them.
I took the sheets off a week of so later and he never botherd the mirrors again...until last night.
He was really going to town on the dresser mirror at 4 AM this morning.
I guess I'll either have to put the sheets back up or do my "Can of pennies" trick to stop him.
The girls have both seen themselves in the mirror but they don't freak out the way Elliott does.
I just wondered if anyone else has a cat that does this and even if you don't, if anyone thinks that he really does think that his reflection is another cat?