And with the bonus "What cats hear" cartoon.
Posted on 01/17/2018 5:11:05 PM PST by nickcarraway
Fughgeddaboudit! :)
Bark, ruff, bark!
“That french poodle next doot is one hot b$tch!”
We may not be able to translate a cat, but they can read us like a book, and wife & I honestly believe they understand much of our language.
Our cat spells. She used to go her food bowl everytime we said “food”. So we started to spell it: F - O - O - D, now when hearing it she goes to her food bowl. She understands other words and their spelling similarly. Scary!
If you don't immediately recognize a Gary Larson cartoon, you have some great cartoon reading ahead of you. Larson was, and maybe still is, some kind of genius.
Search amazon.com for: gary larson far side books.
There was another funny Farside cartoon that showed in a balloon dialog what the dog hears from his master, it went something like, “Blah blah blah blah blah blah, ROVER, blah blah blah blah blah TREAT blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, ROVER!!”
LOL
I have a cat that plays fetch. He loves these little sparkle balls that he’ll chase when thrown, then bring back and drop in front of you to do it again. Never seen another cat do that.
And with the bonus "What cats hear" cartoon.
It’s interesting, but I think the other animals (besides us) use body language to a much greater extent that we do. I wonder, as the Human species, to we even have the perspective to understand how and how much other social animals communicate to each other even without the Broca and Wernicke centers of the brain.
Yeah. I have a cat. She talks to me ALL the time with grunts and chirps. I swear her favorite words are ‘what’ (what-what-what) and sometimes NO!
I’m kidding, my little talking kitty is really much more eloquent than that.
Oh, that’s it!!
Ginger, yes.
Any time my cat appears before me, she has an intention, a message, a purpose. Her whole body language gives it away. Damned if I can tell what she wants. She’s really good at telling me she wants SOMETHING, much poorer at telling me WHAT it is that she wants. Very poor at nouns, cats are.
That was really funny. I didn’t know they could laugh at themselves like that. I worry more about “those people” when they can laugh at themselves.
My cat will play fetch with those little sparkle balls too. But she absolutely will not drop it at my feet. Instead, she’ll drop it a yard away. Always. Then I have to go get it to continue the game. Which I do, because I enjoy the game.
You have your cat well-trained. And my cat has me well-trained.
Yup. Had to stop watching them when they went full on admiration of osama and never made fun of him and then were just stupid and hateful and not even funny with their portrayal of President Trump.
No training involved. He just has expectations of human behavior. If he drops that ball he expects his humans to throw it!
Definitely room in the world for both canine and feline friends! They both love us more than we love ourselves.
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