How Scar Cat In Front Of Mirror

I've watched a cat's first encounter with her image in a mirror. At first she was quite interested, but then she started seriously sniffing around it. Then she lost interest and walked away.

Other cats likewise will usually ignore images in a mirror once they have some life experience. Kittens will go nuts with it, but kittens are very inexperienced and it is also hard to tell how much of their play is just due to their desire to take any excuse to run around and act crazy rather a real perceived other kitten in the mirror.

I saw the same thing when an impending cat fight was shown in a documentary, complete with all the threatening noises. Each time the documentary came on and got to that point, the resident cats came over to the little tv and went around it, sniffing, and then went off to pursue their hobbies. Didn't smell like cats fighting, so it wasn't. Otherwise they would have loved to watch the potential mayhem (as they do in real life if you have enough cats around to have conflicts