When cats stare, what are they looking at?”
Cats LOVE to “mess with your head”! One of the practical jokes that they most love to play upon you is to make you think that something invisible, hideous, and terrifying is in the room with he or she and you, ready to pounce upon you at any moment and gobble you up! Cats take great satisfaction in realizing that we human beings are so darn “gullible”. By the way, the “ui8888888” that your cat wrote (he or she wasn’t just “stepping” on the keyboard!) is a veiled warning to you (in written “catspeak”) that knowing too much of a cat’s ways can anger the great Egyptian cat god, Bastet! On a more serious note, when cats are staring intently (and not in “zen mode”) at something, they are likely looking at a small insect or some other interesting thing that human eyes are likely not to see. Except for seeing less colors than we do (although they do see some), their eyesight is much more keen than ours. When they’re staring at you, it’s because you’re usually speaking to them, or they’re just
