Kirsten
01-07-2009, 07:39 AM
After all these years, Luna can still surprise me. :)
A couple of days ago, I posted this photo (in "General"):
http://www.catmom.de/pix/schwan2.jpg
Luna was watching me while I did that, and soon I noticed she was staring at the picture. After a while, she approached it carefully, and the next moment - believe it or not, but I swear it's true - she tried to bite into the swan's neck!! And not only once, but several times!
To me, this is the ultimate proof that cats do recognize what's in a picture. As I posted before, she's also very interested in animated computer graphics and everything that moves on the screen, but this picture was NOT moving. She must have recognized that the picture shows a bird, and that a bird means "prey". And even though she never had a chance in real life to hunt and kill a prey, she seemed to know that it's the neck of the bird she has to attack.
Isn't it simply amazing? How I love my sweet girl! :love: :love: :love: Of course I did not tell her that in reality, a swan is at least twice as big as she is, and that she would be better off to not to cross his path. ;)
Kirsten
A couple of days ago, I posted this photo (in "General"):
http://www.catmom.de/pix/schwan2.jpg
Luna was watching me while I did that, and soon I noticed she was staring at the picture. After a while, she approached it carefully, and the next moment - believe it or not, but I swear it's true - she tried to bite into the swan's neck!! And not only once, but several times!
To me, this is the ultimate proof that cats do recognize what's in a picture. As I posted before, she's also very interested in animated computer graphics and everything that moves on the screen, but this picture was NOT moving. She must have recognized that the picture shows a bird, and that a bird means "prey". And even though she never had a chance in real life to hunt and kill a prey, she seemed to know that it's the neck of the bird she has to attack.
Isn't it simply amazing? How I love my sweet girl! :love: :love: :love: Of course I did not tell her that in reality, a swan is at least twice as big as she is, and that she would be better off to not to cross his path. ;)
Kirsten