Cats and Thunder, how well do your kitties get on with it??

I thought I would post this message because as it is thundering here right now, why not ask the great peeps at the TCS what their cats think of thunder.
So peeps, what do your gorgeous kitties think of thunder? Are they scared like Tab and hide under the sofa

, do they look around as if to say 'what was that?'

or are they just not bothered?!!

Phenom hides for hours after the storm has passed. Phantom is my fearless little angel!!

well its a shame really, cos I think Big Guy Dino hears noises all the time (and sees flashes) so thunder storms dont bother him a jot !!

Reilly doesn't care, he'll sit in the window even if he is getting soaked by the rain

I don't know! We haven't had a thunder storm yet since we've brought Maui home. I hope I'm there when we have the first one so I can see if he freaks out!

Magnum is fine with thunder and will sit in the window getting wet with rain, but first sign if lightnining he is under the sofa.

Bumper and Boomer are big chickens and run at the first sign of a storm

Scully will happily sit in the window and watch the storm, he loves lightning and thunder (and the fact that the other cats are hiding so he gets more attention)

Thunder doesn't bother any of my cats in fact they will sit upstairs on the landing and look out the front door during a storm..we have very bad T-storms here in the Spring!

Maggie May & Jazz hide in the closet

my boys don't mind the thunder..however, my dog Jenny is scared of it.

My cats sit in the window and watch it. The dogs are scared of it though.

Twitch & Ophelia(the deaf ones) aren't bothered by thunder one bit....until it shakes the house! Damita panicks & is liable to bite in a thunderstorm(she's the blind one). Chico seems to be the "village idiot" who is scared by nothing, so he just sits around... Lily is scared of everything, so she hides wherever she can, and if you try to stop her, she urinates on you!

None of them are scared at all! I swear the crew as a whole is not afraid of anything only a couple are afraid of the vacuum too.... my dogs aren't afraid of thunder either, Girl is deaf and Vino barks at it like he's telling it to "be quiet, I'm trying to take a nap"

Scuffy is used to it, he is from the country that rains and thunders all the time. Sammie is freaked out.

My cats don't seem to notice either way.

Its thundering now but its nap time so its not bothering anyone except perhaps Bobber who is outside right now-I'll have to call for her!!
*dashes downstairs and calls for her*
She must be holed up somewhere good as she didn't come yet!!

My two just kind of look around, and move on with their live. We haven't had many big storms since I've had them, but we had a freak storm last night, and that's all they did.

As an interesting side note - I was reading in a dog behavior book that it seems the reason some dogs may be afraid of thunderstorms is due to a charge of static electricity in their coats which then shocks and scares them. The author (a well-reputed animal behaviorist at Tufts University near Boston) noticed that his dogs would hide in the tub during storms, and realized that the tub pipes were grounded, thus dissipating the static electricity in their coats. Weird, huh?

Duke and Sibohan are both facinated by lightning. However if a good loud clap of thunder hits they run to me for safety and I had better be sitting down or I get "Climbed" until they reach my shoulders.

We get lightning everyday, they are used to it!