Cats are spooky creatures

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I love cats and have three of them, all rather different in many ways but all have this eerie spookiness about them. Take Lucy for instance. She is long haired and very big. She is a placid animal with huge yellow eyes. She looks around the room wide eyed with her ears up and listening. As far as I can see we are alone in the room, but those eyes and those ears seems to be seeing and hearing something or someone else. Minnie prefers to be outdoors, she comes round for food and sometimes a bed. She enters and leaves the house slowly and with great caution. She seems to always assume that danger is just around the corner. She never runs around a corner, she eases herself round until she feels it is safe. Just watching her makes me nervous. Toby is the youngest, he plays non stop, the cats keep out of his way, only the dogs tolerate him and I think that is because they are so much bigger. Toby is sweet, he looks innocent, he enjoys having his face licked by the dogs, or stroked by me but he is a predator. That is what is so spooky about Toby, he never gives up on the hunt, he reminds me of a story about a tiger that stalked a man who had taken his kill. He cornered him in a hut until the man was forced to leave to find food. Then the tiger killed him. Only his jacket was found. Toby has the body of a cat but the mind of a tiger. I have 8 dogs and none of them spook me, they are so straightforward. It's just the cats, there is something mysterious about them...