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8:00 pm
October 13, 2008
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innkeepper
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We moved into our 160 year old home 17 months ago. I have a 17 year of siamese cat who for the most part is very quiet. Shortly after we moved, my cat started to make horrible barking sounds. We thought, up until now, that she was just getting used to a move. However she is quite settled in our location and now I sit quietly and observe her as she howls. It is quite disturbing almost like she is in extreme pain…and it last for about 2-3 minutes, once or twice a day and at the same times. I am convinced that she is watching something as her eyes wonder if they are following something.
My husband and I sleep in a bedroom which used to be George's room and my cat who normally sleeps with us will always howl at 2a.m. She gets off the bed and stands at the door. I usually go and pick her up to stop her. Now when we have B&B guests, I sleep in an upstairs room at the far side of the house just to keep her quiet through the night. She stays with me all night.
I commented early post about George the coachman….could my cat be seeing something that I cant?
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7:04 am
October 14, 2008
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entity
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I have always wondered about that. I have also experienced some strange behaviors with animals….specifically cats and dogs. Did you have the cat checked out at the vet….just to rule anything physical out? Have you tried to set up a voice recorder or video camera in the area? I would be very interested in what you could capture.
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11:10 pm
December 10, 2008
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Dedicated_Dad
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sounds like kitty may be having seizures. Please see your vet…
DD
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5:27 am
December 11, 2008
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bullerspoke
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Ok, let me recap, your cat screams in what to seems to be extreme pain? And you wonder if it ses ghosts? Now, I'm not much of an animal person, but I would run to a veterinarian because priority number one should be that animals should not be subjected to pain and discomfort if avoidable. In fact, I actually think it borders to animal cruelty to NOT instantly consult a veteranarian. But somehow, since you want to believe you jump to the ghost explanation at the expense of your cat's well-being.
Now, if your vet can't find anything wrong with your cat then we can discuss alternative explanations.
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5:38 am
December 11, 2008
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Leslie
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I had a cat that did exactly the same thing at the age of 17. She had kidney problems that were due to her age, and this behavior is common for a cat with these types of health issues. PLEASE see your vet.
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5:35 pm
January 31, 2009
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blueeyedlightning
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I think that you should take the cat to a vet also. We have a different experience though. My cat will go absolutely crazy in my bedroom. He's afraid to walk on the floor and will jump from the doorway to my bed. He meows and looks into the corner of the room. Sometimes I think he goes completely mad, pawing at the bed, twisting his head in every direction he can, jumping at things, and looking scared. I have to tell you here, that when he wants out badly, I'll let him out of the bedroom and lay down to go to sleep. Within minutes of his leaving, I feel something lightly jump up on my bed, walk across the blanket and lay down beside me. There is no one else in the room but me. I always say, 'Hi, kitty. You're back.' The people before us had a cat that had it's litter box and food upstairs. There are many times I'm either in my bedroom or in the closet and hear one of our cats coming up the steps. I say, "Okay, who's up here now?" and look out into the hallway, but none of the cats are there. Is our house haunted by a cat?
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8:17 pm
January 31, 2009
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AA Adams
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Blueyedlightening,
"Within minutes of his leaving, I feel something lightly jump up on my bed, "
That is so weird that you mention that, I experienced the same thing for years, I thought it too was our cat though I knew it wasn't. Then I discovered it was muscle twitching in my husband's legs that I was feeling, he wasn't touching me even, but that is how I felt it when it happened, exactly like a light jump on the bed of an animal (cat). Don't remember how I finally figured it out. I know you say you are alone, but I was just commenting on it as it reminded me of what I used to experience.
Innkeeper, I do think cats are definitely more sensitive to all kinds of things that we are not aware of, smells really seem to freak them out, that we don't even notice. Did the previous owners own a cat? Also, 17 is pretty old for a cat so maybe their eyesight worsens and their brain experiences some sort of dimensia like ours does. But I agree a vet visit is in order.
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10:52 pm
March 7, 2009
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brookelloyd
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I've had the exact same experience with both of my cats. The howling started after we moved. We used to live on the 2nd floor of a 4 story walkup. They never had any exposure to the outside world, except for a few birds in the windows. When we moved to our new place, they had access to the patio windows. Every morning at around 6 AM, one cat would howl the exact same way you described. The other cat would choose a different time to do it. They did sound like they were in pain, but I didn't believe they were. I just assumed they could see something we could not. Not a ghost, but some other kind of animal. I don't know exactly how far and how much they can see, but I assume there was some sort of animal that makes its rounds by the patio every morning around that time. Possibly another cat. We looked and never saw anything, but I figured the animal wanted it that way. Our cats act strange quite a bit, but I always assume it's because their senses are so heightened that it appears that they're reacting to nothing. BTW, they've both recently had vet visits and both checked out fine. I know you wrote that your cat is in the bedroom, but is it possible it can hear something that you can't hear? Possibly another nocturnal animal outside your window?
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6:38 am
March 9, 2009
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Along the line of animals sensing or reacting to things we can't see or hear, I just saw an episode of "Ghostly Encounters", a Canadian produced show which features people sitting in a chair (actually actors) relating their stories, with reenactments thrown in. I believe the stories are true, even if the people relating them are not the actual people.
It's not an "in your face" kind of show, and has a nice host, which makes it watchable.
But I digress. Last week's episode involved a young woman working at a thoroughbred stable. Her friend decided to move her 5 breeding horses to another location. When the woman tried to get a filly to enter one of the stalls, the animal reared up and tried in every way to not enter the stall. So they left it empty.
After that, the young lady saw an apparition of an angry black man in overalls, who walked across and into that stall. She yelled out, got no answer, picked up a pitchfork and went to the stall. It was empty. Then all the open stable doors began slamming shut behind her as she fled the barn.
One morning soon after, she and her friend discovered one of the stable dogs badly whipped in that same stall. It took $1500 of vet bills to save the poor thing. The barn is kept locked and the whole compound is surrounded by a high fence topped with barbed wire. It was highly unlikely any person got in, though whether they looked for any clues was not mentioned. Later they learned of a man being murdered on the premisis around 1930.
I know horses can balk easily, but given this sequence of events, it does make me believe that almost all animals do sense things way beyond our abilities, paranormal or not.
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