The other day I was moving things out of one cupboard and into another, and putting something else in the first cupboard. When I got back to cupboard A with the stuff I wanted to put in, Ben was in it. I laughed and said, “Funny kitty! Would you mind getting out?” with no special emphasis or gesture, and he jumped right out!

Not your brains, they’re after your eyes! Ancestral memories of eyes being the tastiest part of fish, and experience of the saltiness of tears make them think: – If I just get the right moment, just after they’ve opened their eyes and just before they’re fully awake, I’ll have at least one of those away!! 17 years of living with 3 cats convinces me of this!

I’m gonna eat your brains, and gain you knowledge….

Thank you everyone for your interesting comments…while the part about her learning to say “can” is more of a joke, this particular cat really is amazing with her communication abilities. She is extraordinarily good at understanding what I’m trying to tell her – for example, the very first time she got up on the counter and I told her to “get down” and pointed at the floor, she immediately did it without any hesitation. She has understood that phrase every time since, although she occasionally puts her ears back and pretends she didn’t hear me, it’s too late for her to pretend she doesn’t know what I mean! She also gets special treats with glucosamine in them, and when I want to give some to her in the other room (so my other cat doesn’t gobble them all), all I have to do is catch her eye and show her, and she’ll just sort of casually get up and saunter into the other room like nothing’s really happening, so I can give her her treat. Clever cat.

I’m pretty interested in inter-species communication, and after careful observation I’ve concluded that our furry friends are a lot smarter than we are told they are. There is an interesting article in animal communication/intelligence in the March 2008 National Geographic you all might want to check out – science is finally catching on that animals are intelligent, and they are communicating with us!

I think it’s more like tought transferrance (is that a word?) Kitteh is going: ‘tuna, tuna, tuna – must . . . get . . . up . . . open can . . .’

Whatever reason it be gone, thank you for nixing that horrid tatoo. And he will live with that horror for the rest of his life. He is NOT coming to any of my birthday parties.

MY then three year old nephew, every time he saw me and multiple times at that, remembered when I told him the story of my blonde Persian, Farah. “kitty sleep on ooo neck?”
MY husband is allergic, so I have my memories. I want a giraffe- but not to sleep on ooo neck”.

PLAN 9 REFERENCE OMG YES

Whoa. WHOA.

AND an X-Files reference???

I am ded.

I was diagnosed with sleep apnea several years ago and must wear a mask on my face in order to keep breathing at night. There is a port on the front of the mask at about nose level which constantly blows out air. Apparantly my 14 year old tortie did not like this. After about a week of having this new nuisance in her life, she decided the best solution was to simply lay across my head with her belly covering my face and the offending exhause port! Problem solved. It was like that alien movie when that alien thing hatches from the egg and attaches to the persons face. She would happily sleep there all night.

Well I just want to give the both of them a big ole hug!