hey, who's that other black kitty?!?

Animals that have passed the mirror test are all of the great apes (bonobos[5], chimpanzees[5][6], orangutans[citation needed], gorillas[citation needed] and humans), bottlenose dolphins[5][7][8], Orcas[citation needed], elephants[9], European Magpies[10], and pigs[11]. Initially, it was thought that gorillas did not pass the test, but there are now several well-documented reports (such as one gorilla, Koko[12]) of gorillas passing the test. In 1981, Epstein, Lanza and Skinner published a paper in the journal Science in which they argued that the pigeon also passes the mirror test.[13][14] Pigeons though could only detect the spots on their own body after they had been trained to and untrained pigeons have never been able to pass the mirror test.[15] However, magpies have been shown to pass the test by trying to remove a coloured sticker from underneath their beaks when shown it in a mirror.[16] Humans tend to fail the mirror test until they are about 18 months old, or what psychoanalysts call the "mirror stage".[17] Dogs, cats, and young human children all fail the mirror test.[3][4]

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Originally Posted by Natalie_ca

Cute!

Some years ago I had bought a wooden patio door stop in the shape of a cat sitting. It was designed to sit inside closed patio door in order to prevent it from being opened from the outside.

I only had Chynna then, but when I unwrapped the wooden cat and sat it beside the couch, Chynna took one look at it and fluffed up, hissed and leaped away. She slunk up to it a few times hissing and all hair standing on end.

She then went and hid and wouldn't come out. Yes! That's the same brave girl who is Queen of the place now and stalks poor little Abby!

She was totally winged out by it for 2 or 3 days. I finally packed it up and gave it to my brother's girl friend.

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