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TFR active over Wilmington DE. It's now "National Defense Airspace". (Original Post) Nevilledog Nov 2020 OP
I never thought an airspace announcement could be so exciting. crickets Nov 2020 #1
I understood about zero of what you wrote.....lol Nevilledog Nov 2020 #2
Hee. You are not a cat owner, I take it? crickets Nov 2020 #5
I have two. We call it "getting a hair" when our cats do that...lol Nevilledog Nov 2020 #6
I call mine the kittyanapolis 500. niyad Nov 2020 #11
Dogs get zoomies, too Wednesdays Nov 2020 #12
Oh, yeah. I TOTALLY get that. We have four cats, and you just never, ever know PatrickforO Nov 2020 #15
When they're racing each other down the hall, then back, then down again ... then back again ... eppur_se_muova Nov 2020 #17
This is what zoomies look like: tblue37 Nov 2020 #7
That's perfect! Nevilledog Nov 2020 #8
omg, that's it! crickets Nov 2020 #9
Simon's Cat videos always capture the quirky essence of cathood. tblue37 Nov 2020 #10
Exercise is good for health IronLionZion Nov 2020 #18
This whole subsection makes me want to have a cat again! ancianita Nov 2020 #20
Same. herding cats Nov 2020 #13
Oh. I'd never heard "zoomies" before. PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2020 #14
Security protocols are being moved into place. Something is Really Happening, isn't it? NBachers Nov 2020 #3
PA is probably gonna flip. roamer65 Nov 2020 #4
I showed to a friend Sugarcoated Nov 2020 #16
Security protocols. They must be considering Biden our new PatrickforO Nov 2020 #19
Protect Our President. LovingA2andMI Nov 2020 #21

crickets

(25,896 posts)
1. I never thought an airspace announcement could be so exciting.
Thu Nov 5, 2020, 12:21 AM
Nov 2020

Just received a flash of insight about cat "zoomies." Holy cow, adrenaline rush!

crickets

(25,896 posts)
5. Hee. You are not a cat owner, I take it?
Thu Nov 5, 2020, 12:32 AM
Nov 2020

Or all of your cats have been mellow? "Zoomies" are a cat thing. They suddenly, for no reason, get up and start running laps around the house like little mad things. Every once in a while they might stop and give you a wild-eyed look before they suddenly zoom off again. It's like they get a mega-jolt of adrenaline and have to run it off, all of it, all at once. Unnerving, and a little hilarious. Unless it's 2am and then it's just annoying. 😄

Nevilledog

(50,667 posts)
6. I have two. We call it "getting a hair" when our cats do that...lol
Thu Nov 5, 2020, 12:35 AM
Nov 2020

Our big tabby looks like a loaded spring.....back arches and he pops straight up into the air and then takes off. Very entertaining.

Wednesdays

(17,248 posts)
12. Dogs get zoomies, too
Thu Nov 5, 2020, 12:56 AM
Nov 2020

Our husky mix would scramble from one end of the apartment to the other end, over and over, at four seconds per lap, bouncing off the bed along the way.

PatrickforO

(14,514 posts)
15. Oh, yeah. I TOTALLY get that. We have four cats, and you just never, ever know
Thu Nov 5, 2020, 01:20 AM
Nov 2020

when one of them will get a wild hair and peel out. Zoomies! That is a perfect way of describing it.

And you never know what they will do on a zoomie. I had a little Tuxedo years ago who went into zoomie mode and made it all the way up the outside corner of a wall to the vaulted ceiling before coming back down. I loved that little cat. We have two tuxedos now, a Siamese, and a tortie.

eppur_se_muova

(36,227 posts)
17. When they're racing each other down the hall, then back, then down again ... then back again ...
Thu Nov 5, 2020, 01:24 AM
Nov 2020

making as much noise as possible in the middle of the night, that's known as The Game Of Thundering Hooves, in which cats fantasize about being wild mustangs, or buffalo, or some such.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,746 posts)
14. Oh. I'd never heard "zoomies" before.
Thu Nov 5, 2020, 01:13 AM
Nov 2020

I have a new-to-me cat. Adopted from the local shelter back in July. She is VERY lively and really should have been taken in by a different human, but she's stuck with me.

She starts getting extremely active (zoomies) late at night when I'm getting ready to go to bed, and early in the morning several hours before I'm ready to get up. Sigh.

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