I have been reading this book called Cat vs. Cat, trying to understand my herd, and the shift in the heirachy since Tex's passing ( ). Some of you might know, Tex was THE king, and everyone else fit pretty well. Now, Monte is THE king (and a bad one at that). Anyhow, on to my question. This book talks about multi cat households, and how you can tell something about the heirachy by the way the cats enter a room. For instance, when one cat is already in the room, and the other cat, entering the room, walks the perimeter, the perimeter walking cat is the lesser cat. The book goes on to discuss other 'clues', but, I can't find what this one means, and wonder if anyone else has experienced it.

When several cats are walking towards a room, it is almost like, at the last few steps, they are doing a secret rush into the room, trying to beat the other one, but, not letting on that they are rushing. It isn't like they run, but, they are truly trying to out hustle the other one.

Anyone ever experience that with their cats? It kind of seems like they are doing a fast walking movement like a group of school kids would do, fooling around, trying to be first to the bus stop.

Weird.