This is Coal. She is a very smart cat because she taught herself how to tell time with the oven clock. She did this because she knows she gets dinner at the same time each day and will walk through the house yelling if it is one minute past dinnertime.
I also think she just memorized the symbols on the clock because she yells whenever a five is on the screen. But still a smart cat
i wonder if my pets have like a proper language and when i try to speak back to them im just speaking jargon
like for example my cat always speaks to me when I come home and i meow back to her and she’ll meow again & even though i don’t think twice about it to her it’s probably a situation where it’s like
her, meowing: “im glad you’re home”
me, meowing back: “tax benefits”
her, meowing: “why do u always do this”
me
cats actually have a human-specific language. cats don’t often meow at each other and seem to use subvocal communications that humans can’t hear to chat cat-to-cat. however, cats seem to use what humans would call “shout-until-you’re-understood” to speak to humans. so basically, it’s more like:
“I’M GLAD YOU’RE HOME!”
“tax benefits”
“NO, I’M GLAD YOU ARE HOME”
“waffle iron”
“IT’S OKAY. I LOVE YOU TOO, MY DUMB HUMAN”
The domestic house cat’s wild ancestors have a much harsher voice, too. The going theory is that early cats mimicked human infants which tripped humans’ nurturing instincts, and then selective breeding did the rest.
We make a big deal over how dogs have developed the ability to understand human expressions and tones (and let’s be fair, that is in fact awesome), but cats are possibly the only species that has changed their vocal language to try to communicate with us.
what I love about this post (apart from cats because cats are ADORABLE) is the assumption that cats have words for tax benefits.
Remember Tara the Cat, who last
year saved her owner’s son from a vicious dog attack? Well, the SPCA of
Los Angeles just awarded her its annual “Hero Dog” medal.
Her unprecedented heroism had to be recognized. They scratched out “dog” and wrote “cat.”
Like ancient humans looked at wolves and were like “I want that” and we got dogs
Ancient cats looked at people and were like “I guess I could tolerate these weird naked monkeys for food” and really, that haven’t changed all that much
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