Indoor cats have serious FOMO when it comes to the Great Outdoors.

Which is why I built Jake and Jenny a catio, so they can have the illusion of enjoying the Great Outdoors while still being safe. But it's not just the catio... they have windows too. And they really, really love being distracted by the world outside the windows. Many times they've been sitting next to me on the couch or in bed and will go running to a window to investigate a bird that flew by or some rival cat moving in on their territory.

Yesterday morning Jake was next to me while I was in bed working. He was washing his face after breakfast when he suddenly bolted over my laptop to the window...

Then he bolted to the other window. Then he bolted to the window in my office next door. And then I heard him run downstairs into the catio.

Jeny, of course heard the disruption and bolted downstairs to see what was happening. She didn't want to miss out.

No idea what it was. My guess is a new cat they haven't seen before.

But it could have been aliens, in which case I'm the one who was missing out.