Mama was a MAJOR animal lover and she especially loved cats.. It does not frighten us any and it only shows up in photo's. I don't know of he stares at anything when he is there or not, I will have to ask. We didn't notice it in the photo's before, until I got Chester and she tooka lot of photo's of him so I could see him "growing up" in pictures while I was gone to work. It has started showing up so much that we now have noticed it.