Psychic Tyche

So yesterday I was lying in bed for a rest with Tyche meatloafed
behind my head. She was doing that purr thing that inevitably puts me
to sleep if she does it long enough. Yesterday, though, she suddenly
stopped purring. I muttered, wondering what happened. About twenty
seconds later, she suddenly got up and bolted off the pillow. Five
seconds after that, I heard the key in the lock. My partner was home,
and Tyche was there to greet him.

I wonder how she knows he's coming. She can't recognize the car
engine, because he walks home from a bus stop that's a good third of a
km away. Also, our apartment door is right beside the stairwell, so
it's only about three steps from exiting the stairwell to opening the
door. Can she recognize his footsteps on the stairs, even through our
apartment door AND the stairwell door?! She'd have to in order to
suspect his approach 30 seconds before he puts the key in the lock.

Is our Spikey-Tyche psychic?

--Fil

in article , Enfilade at
wrote on 3/4/05 8:18 PM:

So yesterday I was lying in bed for a rest with Tyche meatloafed
behind my head. She was doing that purr thing that inevitably puts me
to sleep if she does it long enough. Yesterday, though, she suddenly
stopped purring. I muttered, wondering what happened. About twenty
seconds later, she suddenly got up and bolted off the pillow. Five
seconds after that, I heard the key in the lock. My partner was home,
and Tyche was there to greet him.

I wonder how she knows he's coming. She can't recognize the car
engine, because he walks home from a bus stop that's a good third of a
km away. Also, our apartment door is right beside the stairwell, so
it's only about three steps from exiting the stairwell to opening the
door. Can she recognize his footsteps on the stairs, even through our
apartment door AND the stairwell door?! She'd have to in order to
suspect his approach 30 seconds before he puts the key in the lock.

Is our Spikey-Tyche psychic?

--Fil

One time I was home when my mom was gone and our Cocker got up and went to
the window and started wagging and doing "she'scoming she'scoming
she'scoming she'scoming she'scoming" movements. a good 5 minutes later my
mom came in. She had to be a mile away when he started up. It is amazing.

On Fri 04 Mar 2005 09:18:59p, Enfilade wrote in
rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
. com):

So yesterday I was lying in bed for a rest with Tyche meatloafed
behind my head. She was doing that purr thing that inevitably
puts me to sleep if she does it long enough. Yesterday, though,
she suddenly stopped purring. I muttered, wondering what
happened. About twenty seconds later, she suddenly got up and
bolted off the pillow. Five seconds after that, I heard the key
in the lock. My partner was home, and Tyche was there to greet
him.

I wonder how she knows he's coming. She can't recognize the car
engine, because he walks home from a bus stop that's a good
third of a km away. Also, our apartment door is right beside
the stairwell, so it's only about three steps from exiting the
stairwell to opening the door. Can she recognize his footsteps
on the stairs, even through our apartment door AND the stairwell
door?! She'd have to in order to suspect his approach 30
seconds before he puts the key in the lock.

Is our Spikey-Tyche psychic?

--Fil


I wonder how they know!!

--
Cheryl

On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 18:18:59 -0800, Enfilade wrote:

So yesterday I was lying in bed for a rest with Tyche meatloafed
behind my head. She was doing that purr thing that inevitably puts me
to sleep if she does it long enough. Yesterday, though, she suddenly
stopped purring. I muttered, wondering what happened. About twenty
seconds later, she suddenly got up and bolted off the pillow. Five
seconds after that, I heard the key in the lock. My partner was home,
and Tyche was there to greet him.

I wonder how she knows he's coming. She can't recognize the car
engine, because he walks home from a bus stop that's a good third of a
km away. Also, our apartment door is right beside the stairwell, so
it's only about three steps from exiting the stairwell to opening the
door. Can she recognize his footsteps on the stairs, even through our
apartment door AND the stairwell door?! She'd have to in order to
suspect his approach 30 seconds before he puts the key in the lock.

Is our Spikey-Tyche psychic?

--Fil

Yes -- she reads minds. MLB

On 4 Mar 2005 18:18:59 -0800, (Enfilade)
wrote:

So yesterday I was lying in bed for a rest with Tyche meatloafed
behind my head. She was doing that purr thing that inevitably puts me
to sleep if she does it long enough. Yesterday, though, she suddenly
stopped purring. I muttered, wondering what happened. About twenty
seconds later, she suddenly got up and bolted off the pillow. Five
seconds after that, I heard the key in the lock. My partner was home,
and Tyche was there to greet him.

I wonder how she knows he's coming.

snip

Cat hearing ... and the attention they pay to it ... is phenomenal:
starting to open a can of tuna in the kitchen will bring cats from a
hundred meters away in heavy brush. They can not only hear the sound
of a mouse moving in dry grass from considerable distances, they can
detect and locate it when the wind is blowing the grass and leaves
around. In the wild, this ability is the difference between eating
and going hungry. Domesticated cats still have this ability, they
just use it for other things that interest them.


--
T.E.D. )

Enfilade wrote:
I wonder how she knows he's coming. She can't recognize the car
engine, because he walks home from a bus stop that's a good third of a
km away. Also, our apartment door is right beside the stairwell, so
it's only about three steps from exiting the stairwell to opening the
door. Can she recognize his footsteps on the stairs, even through our
apartment door AND the stairwell door?! She'd have to in order to
suspect his approach 30 seconds before he puts the key in the lock.

It's amazing. One time, I lived in a flat on the fourth floor with no
lift (elevator). My parents were there one day, helping me clean out
some old things. Dad and I went downstairs to take out some things to
the bins. I only had Frank at that time. When we came back upstairs, Mum
said Frank had gone to the door and looked expectantly at it several
minutes before we came in. Frank must have heard us come in the
downstairs door (that was some climb - it was an old house from the late
1800s, and each floor was about four metres high. I loved that high
ceiling).

--
Marina, Frank and Nikki
marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi
Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/
and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki

It's amazing.

If their hearing is that sensitive, it's a wonder they don't mail
hairballs to our neighbours who are constantly playing rap with the
bass thudding through the bedroom wall.

"To The Losers next Door
Turn That Sh!t Down
Or More Of These
Will be Comin' Around
We'll Pounce On You
An' your Pitbull Pup
Then Gulp You Down
And Hack You Up
Your Singing Sucks
Your Talk's A Bore
Love from The Four
Kitty Cats Next Door."

--Fil

"Enfilade" wrote in message
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It's amazing.

If their hearing is that sensitive, it's a wonder they don't mail
hairballs to our neighbours who are constantly playing rap with the
bass thudding through the bedroom wall.

"To The Losers next Door
Turn That Sh!t Down
Or More Of These
Will be Comin' Around
We'll Pounce On You
An' your Pitbull Pup
Then Gulp You Down
And Hack You Up
Your Singing Sucks
Your Talk's A Bore
Love from The Four
Kitty Cats Next Door."

Fil, I *LOVE* your rap - and everything else you write (I really missed you
while you were gone). Do you write professionally? If not you should
consider it!

Hugs,

CatNipped

--Fil

Enfilade wrote:

"To The Losers next Door
Turn That Sh!t Down
Or More Of These
Will be Comin' Around
We'll Pounce On You
An' your Pitbull Pup
Then Gulp You Down
And Hack You Up
Your Singing Sucks
Your Talk's A Bore
Love from The Four
Kitty Cats Next Door."

LOL! Another great catsong (rap?) from Fil.

--
Marina, Frank and Nikki
marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi
Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/
and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki

Fil, I *LOVE* your rap - and everything else you write (I really missed you
while you were gone). Do you write professionally? If not you should
consider it!

I'm a cartoonist for a monthly newspaper, have written a magazine
article, am working on a newspaper article, have done some historical
conferences, published some poems, and sent a defence paper to Ottawa.
Still a dabbler, but building a foundation.

--FIl