Hey, I've noticed that, too! We have two cats and one ferret, Daxter. He usually creeps up on them when they're napping, (they're grown cats) and he gets real still and acts like he's wanting to nap along with them. I thought he was just trying to fit in at first and was charmed by it..but no, eventually (and the cats have learned this) he tries to stalk up on to the back of one of them and see if he can grab it by the scruff of the neck. They keep their eyes cracked open now whenever he comes up on the chair to them, they're ready to swat and spit if he tries anything. Our female cat has starting just getting down and going somewhere else (angrily, of course). I just think Daxter wants to drag them off and stuff them under the couch along with his sock stash! Ha!... So, maybe it's a "bluff" so as either to be able to "hunt" them, OR to keep from alarming the cats and getting themselves swatted?... Your guess is as good as mine... -Donna [Posted in FML issue 3971]