Weird......

[marysmerrycats]

the thing that absolutely weirds me out is the half open-sleeping stare....you know, their eyes are at half mast and as you walk by they follow you..

oh, Louise does that! it is creepy! almost like she's thinking, yeah just go to sleep already, would ya?!

I know I sound nutty but I wonder if one of my girls that has passed over to the RB comes back to snuggle with me at night sometimes.

you don't sound nutty at all, before I moved to this house, I was alone in the den in the old house, and I "heard" or felt, I don't know, a thump just like my RB cat Cookie, jumping on the desk. no other cat was there, and I was not thinking of her at the time, so I know it wasn't my imagination...weird!

She sits there for hours....staring out into the darkness...her tail swishing from side to side. Out side the window is a bush! I have taken a flashlight to try and figure out WHAT is she looking at so intently???? I see nothing....

well that is one of two things... either you are not seeing with a cats eye, they focus on the tiniest thing, an ant, maybe the way a leaf is blowing in the slightest breeze.. or... they do it to freak us out!! cats communicate in a way we don't understand...for all we know they have telepathy and it's a universal cat thing... "ok time to look out the window or the wall, or the floor, and stare at nothing, freak out the humans! " I mean after all, we do laugh at them sometimes, they are getting even perhaps?

She sits there for hours....staring out into the darkness...her tail swishing from side to side.

this part sounds like part of a book, you would make a good writer!