Things I learned while trying to get to sleep last night

[james_davis_nicoll]

Eddie spends a lot of the night trotting around the building and most of his routes cross me at some point.

There is a limit to the number of times Blotchy will let Tapestry smack in the face for sleeping near me and even though Taps took off as soon as Blotchy stood up, she still can't outrun him.

Waking up to find Nameless staring intently at my face isn't half as disturbing as waking up to find her leaning over my face apparently in mid-bite (Note: no teeth made contact. As soon as she saw I was awake, we stared at each for a while and then she flounced off). She better not have decided I am food.

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[pixel39.livejournal.com]

Nameless was probably sniffing you intently--the open-mouth thing is called the flehmen response, and it's what cats do when they find something that they want to sniff intently. It funnels the scent-laden air past this sensory organ they have (horses have it too) to get more info.

There was a fantasy/sf novel that touched on it and the atrophy of this organ in humans--a woman of one of the Pueblo tribes, in the process of delivering an airplane to a client on some planet finds a settlement of other Pueblo people that nobody knew about, the tribe having formed a symbiotic relationship with giant sentient dragonflies. Fairly typical that I'd remember that detail but not the useful ones like author or title. ;-)

[summers-place.livejournal.com]

I read that book too. Here it is: People of the Sky. And yes, my cats do this too.