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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sid Bonkers" data-source="post: 275890" data-attributes="member: 19121">Having never been particularly interested in exercise for exercises sake I really have no idea whether stretching or warming up is a good idea a bad idea or a total waste of time but I always wonder how animals can go from asleep to running in 0 seconds.A couple of examples, I have several feeders in my garden that I stock with sunflower hearts, niger seeds and no mess mix for the wild birds, my cat can be seemingly asleep on the patio and suddenly without warning is half way down the garden lunging at some unsuspecting pigeon. I do not like feeding squirrels which I see as rats with fluffy tails and am always chasing them off the feeders, my Jack Russell can be asleep on the sofa (dont ask) and I will creep up and open the patio doors slightly and say "squirrel" at which point my Jack Russell is off and running like a greyhound hot on the heels of the squirrel, I hasten to add that she has never caught one yet but its fun to watch and goes some way to protecting the seeds for the Finches that visit my garden regularly.My question if I have one is why dont my cat and dog get injury's going from total rest to hot pursuit in a nano second, are their muscles that different to ours?</blockquote>

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