Staring Down Register!! What's This About?

tncatfancier

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My two cats have spent all their waking hours staring down into the heat register in the floor in my office for the past week. There is nothing under the house and nothing in the register and the heat isn't even on. Any idea what this weird behavior is all about? It's creeping me out!
 

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My guess is there is a bug or a critter down there rustling around and they can hear it even if you can't.
 

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I second Hissy's vote for a possible critter. When I lived with my mom, our cat would do the same thing, then I started to hear things as well. My mom wouldn't believed me about hearing "noises" coming from the register. We used a wood stove for heat so the vents had not been used in years, turns out it was mice.
 
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My first thought was bugs or mice too. It's a regular register for our propane gas furnace and it's only the one register they seem addicted to. We pulled the register up and shined flashlights down there and even got under the house in the crawl space and can find no signs of any critters. Can mice live in heating ducts that are still being used? (We run the heat only at night now since it is warmer.) My other thought is that we chased the neighbor's cat out from under there before. (She can no longer get back under there because we found her entrance way and plugged it up.) I thought if she did her cat thing under the house maybe they smell that, but why would it come up in just one register?

Thank you for your replies Hissy and Mishon. I'm still learning about cat behavior. I've only been a cat owner for about 3 years.
 
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