Change Like the Weather

[kybearfuzz]

Animals have a wonderful sensitivity to the weather. All the pets I had as a kid and as an adult would display some bizarre behavior when the weather was about to "change." They become more animated, they do things they normally don't do, etc.

A front was moving through here yesterday. While doing my after-work workout in my downstairs area, Murphy the cat decided to start playing wildly with a catnip toy. Catnip strangely has never had any effect on him, until yesterday. He was licking it like crazy, then ran all over the house, up and down the stairs. Maggie joined in, meowing for no reason, then doing laps herself throughout the house. When she finally calmed down, she wanted to snuggle in my arms. It's another thing she doesn't do often.

And pets aren't the only thing that react strangely when the weather is about to change. According to my grandmother who worked as a cook in my elementary school, kids do it as well. The elementary students at the school would get rowdy, restless, and rambunctious (or at least more than usual) when storms or snow fronts were coming.

Comments

[bigsabu.livejournal.com]

Bonkers is always insane and her mood changes on a dime. I have given up trying to predict anything from her behavior.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

LOL! Perhaps she'll become abnormally calm when the weather changes. Or maybe Tim knows the weather will change based on YOUR behavior! :D

[prisoncitybear.livejournal.com]

Edwin was bananas this morning. So were the kids mind you. It's eerily quiet here on campus. We just installed a wind generator, it is spinning like crazy.
Yukon, with his St Bernard genes is gearing up to go and dig up corpses if needed.
:)

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Oh I can imagine that Edwin going bananas would be quite an event! Wait until he's full size and it'll be like having a bull in a china shop. :)

And Yukon is just following his rescue training!

[dendren.livejournal.com]

great pic! Our weather doesn't change quite enough to affect our cats I don't think. The main thing I really notice is after it's been cool and the house has been closed up and then we start opening the windows they go a little crazy for a bit. It's like suddenly having oxygen from outside wakes them up or something LOL

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

I think it's the smells of all the outdoors that does it. Maggie and Murphy both love it when I have the windows open in the house.

[itzgid.livejournal.com]

I can attest to that. When I was teaching, we could always tell when a low pressure front was moving in.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Oh I bet that was fun to watch!

[itzgid.livejournal.com]

If your idea of "fun" is watching 28 teens bouncing off the walls, then yes, it was a blast.

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

You look as cute as can be in that photo!

HUGS!

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Thanks handsome! Big hugs back!

[mikiedoggie.livejournal.com]

I think there is some truth to that! My dog was acting very oddly last night, right before the storm front hit. She ended up hiding in the back walk-in closet and slept there, which was something she's never done before.

And then we got snowmeggedon.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Awwww.. poor Boomer! I'm sure she sensed the snowmeggedon coming, but looked like she was enjoying it per your photo of her I saw last night.

And I love that icon! :)

[jccub1.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, maybe our freakish weather had something to with the weekend's World War 3. Certainly Delilah is a moody teenager (I think she's an EMO cat) but her schizoid attack on Samson was truly out of character.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

She's just acting true to form. Didn't Delilah attack Samson in the Bible (at least when he slept)? :D

[jccub1.livejournal.com]

Egads! But Samson sleeps 9/10ths of the time *rolls eyes*

Seriously though...Delilah has bitten off Samson's whiskers since birth, which stops him from straying too far from her... She literally cuts off his hair to control him. Now THAT's a biblical thingymabob in real life! (ok in cat real life...) :O