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I've been noticing lately that sometimes, after esrblog and I have gone to bed, our cat, Sugar, will leave our bedroom and roam through the house, occasionally stopping several rooms away and meowing loudly and piteously.

When she first started doing that, I thought she might be losing her hearing, and was meowing because she wanted us and wasn't getting sufficient audio traces of our presence. But since I've started cleaning the excess ear wax out of her ears, she hasn't been acting as though she can't hear us during the day.

So what I usually do when she starts yelling at night is try to catch her attention (without sound, so as to avoid waking esrblog) and beckoning to her to come join me in bed, which she does. Sometimes, if she's far enough away that she can't see me, I get out of bed and find her.

I did that last night, and found, to my surprise, that she was sitting in front of the full-length mirror in my room (which I use as an office, as opposed to the bedroom esrblog and I share). The mirror is hung low enough that a cat can easily look into it while sitting or standing in front of it. She seemed perplexed, so I petted her as she stood there looking, so she could see the change in the image.

The odd thing is that Sugar never seemed to take any interest in the mirror before. She always treated it as though... it were part of the wallpaper. I was intrigued by the fact that she spotted it now.

This morning, when I got up, I found a stretch band that I use to keep one of my games together on the floor in the bathroom. It had been on the dining room table. Sugar always *has* liked to play with rubber bands. Apparently she got bored again, later in the night, and filched it to play with.

I"m proud of my cat. At 16, she's developing new capacities.