Posted on 07/23/2018 7:28:53 PM PDT by BBell
We’re not saying that every time your cat does something weird it’s a signal of an impending natural disaster, but you might want to start paying attention.
Because, as this security footage shows, cats apparently have a sense for that kind of thing.
This footage was take at the Cat Café Catchy in Japan, when an earthquake struck Osaka in June.
Moments before the café started to shake, the cats seem to react to a loud noise or a thump.
They jolt awake, looking around as if expecting to see what woke them from their naps.
Then the building begins to shake, causing panic among the cats.
The vision was posted online by the Cat cafe catchy YouTube channel two weeks ago, clocking up nearly 230,000 views since.
Animals predicting things like earthquakes and tsunamis is well-known in folklore.
A post by experts at the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program could very well explain what happened in the video above.
“We can easily explain the cause of unusual animal behaviour seconds before humans feel an earthquake,” an program spokesperson said.
“Very few humans notice the smaller P wave that travels the fastest from the earthquake source and arrives before the larger S wave.
“But many animals with more keen senses are able to feel the P wave seconds before the S wave arrives.
“As for sensing an impending earthquake days or weeks before it occurs, that's a different story.”
But scientists aren’t able to say if animals’ unusual behaviour a few days before an earthquake are expressions of “early warning signs” of a disaster.
A study from Heiko Woith, Gesa M. Petersen, Sebastian Hainzl and Torsten Dahm published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America last month suggests evidence is… shaky.
They said the data – reports of animals acting funny – was “often only anecdotal and retrospective”.
However, that doesn’t mean they’re not valid.
“The probability density of foreshocks and the occurrence of animal precursors are strikingly similar, suggesting that at least parts of the reported animal precursors are in fact related to foreshocks,” they said.
So is it a café for cats or a café for people who want cats to sit with them or what?
My dachshund could detect earthquakes the day before they hit. No joke.
Who knows. The Japanese are weird.
And some people like both dogs and cats.
And the animals like them back too, and they all get along well together.
When I was a kid, we had a dog, a German Shephard, and a cat. They got along well together.
Ours was a black lab who sought refuge in the bathtub anytime a thunderstorm was hours yet away, or anything that rumbled the ground. Even when I ran the big tractor with the sub soiler chisel plow a mile away he would be in the bathtub. Very strange for a black lab.
If the cats get scalded by hot coffee, who do they sue?
Ziggy really sang, screwed up eyes and screwed down hairdo
Like some cat from Japan
Sanka.
+1
It is a cafe where people go to pet the cats. Housing there does not always allow pets. Saw a TV show regarding this.
We are told to always go to the most secure room in the house when a tornado or hurricane or other disaster strikes.
Most are told that that room is a bathroom (with no windows).
So, how the heck do my cats (and perhaps all other cats) know to go hide under the toilet every time they hear thunder? Who told them about that bathroom are the safest place in the house?
Cute....now I know why we rarely see Ronald mcDonald much...
For those who can’ find the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmFp6YIlVhw
The Cat in the lower left is the only one that stayed put. The most cool headed cat of them all.
LOL
Later
Lol!
You mean the lower right near the front window?
Yes
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