This is one stroy I found tragicomic...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=243x13179
I live in a highrise apartment building (for this area), and I am on the top floor (8th floor). I have had cats all through my adult life, but I have never lived in an apartment until about 1 1/2 years ago. So, raising kitties in this kind of environment is very new to me.
Last night, the hallway outside my apartment door was being vacuumed. Spidey and Jake were by the door and both stopped their playing to listen to the noise. Jake eventually went back to what he was doing.
But Spidey did not. He sat and looked at the door for a few minutes, and then, he apparently decided he needed to see what that noise was about. So, he jumped up onto the dining room table, and stood on the back of one of the chairs so he could look out the window. Sad thing was, the 'window' is a mirror that I have on the wall that backs the hallway.
I laughed quite hard for a few minutes, but, then I realized that his early life must have been in a house where he could look out the window when there were noises he wanted to investigate. Also realized that he is still very insecure.
This exlains his fascination with mirrors, I think. He sits in my bedroom and looks in my dresser mirror nearly everyday.
What I don't understand is that Jake was raised as a foster kitten in a home with (I am sure) windows. He does not have the same fascination with mirrors. He also was not concerned about the hallway noises after an initial coureosity.
I am beginning to think that Spidey did have it pretty rough during his early months. I have noticed, for instance, that one of his ears is split at the top. I suspect that this may have happened in the foster home he was in where there were about six cats eating out of the same large bowl, etc. ( I was told this by the foster mom). Even now, if Jake wants to eat out of the same bowl as Spidey is eating out of, Spidey backs away. I can't help but wonder what happened to this sweet boy before he came to me.