On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 1:27 AM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Most cats do. There's a special sort of noise that cats make when > they are watching birds just outside the window - a kind of click > or chirrup. I don't know why they do that, but it's a noise that > I have come to know well. According to Desmond Morris in his book Cat Watching it's what many "domesticated" cats do when they see prey but are unable to actually catch it. The "teeth chattering" is them practicing severing the spinal cord of their captured prey, thus disabling them. Sounds cruel, but I guess when capturing large, vicious prey like rats, immediate disablement is preferred... I've had several cats over the years that have made that noise, too. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
