Dunno if this counts or not...
I have a cat that I refer to as the Big Black Fluffy Thing (or Hissy Thing if the dog is involved). She's a long-furred black cat with yellow-green eyes, the perfect image of a Halloween cat. She's very sweet and affectionate, and is about everything I could ask for in a kitty.

Lately she's taken to kinda spazzing out in my kitchen. She'll lie in one particular area of the floor, then start batting at something and chasing it around the floor. I had been assuming that it was small moths or something- we get those in my house because they come in through bags of birdseed that we buy- but the other night she started doing it while I was in the kitchen, right next to her. It was hilarious to watch- her eyes got huge and she started swatting at nothing, batting nothing out of the air and pouncing on nothing. Then she jumped up and walked off to the living room as though nothing had happened.

The part about this that's really odd? We also have the old stoned-looking Siamese who's 12 and getting rather creaky. And last night he started doing it too, in the same area of the floor...
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 3 Jul 2008, 13:48, 5 replies)

*Ponders*
I reckon it's the ghost of an red-indian mouse murdered a hundred years ago by a Yankee cat.
( girlinthehole, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 14:17, closed)

so obvious...
... it's the pixies they're after. To stop the pixies coming into the house, leave a saucer of cream or some chocolate on the doorstep each night.
(haberman is singing in the changes, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 14:42, closed)

my cats do things like this
reminds e of a book i read at school where there were these wierd invisible giant slugs trying to take over the world and only animals could see them, cant remember what happened, but it always makes me think about getting the salt out when my cats start doing it!
(pogo_it, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 15:31, closed)

I think
that might have been "Nopalgarth" by Jack Vance. If so, I congratulate you on having very obscure and excellent taste in sci-fi literature!
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 3 Jul 2008, 16:44, closed)

Cats
They do this stuff on purpose because they know it shits us up. Yours had probably been planning it for weeks.
( Olembe Refuses to write in this space, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 17:30, closed)