Came across this feature in the UK Daily Mail
The weird world of mystic mogs and death-sensing dogs | Mail Online
As it refers to Sheldrake and his findings that cats seem to know when they are going to be taken to the vets - I wondered that, after Alex has proved that dogs know, whether he might experiment with moggies.
I have no idea how such an experiment would work - maybe others on this board have some ideas?
If a cat owner decided to take a cat to the vet for the purposes of demonstrating how the cat shoots off - would the cat know it was only an experiment and not the real thing?
How many visits to the vet I wonder does it take for puss to develop this aversion?
And I wonder what exactly it is about the vets that scares cats?
I mean it's obvious if a vet cut off your gonads - you'd be reluctant to visit again...but would a mere examination by a kindly vet on a table be enough to get pussy trembling with fear?
Or maybe it's the 'vibration of death' about the vets - maybe cats sense other cats pain or past trauma....