I swear my cat understands english, I'll tell him something like "no cookies until bed time" then right when I'm getting ready for bed he's meowing by the cookie drawer. They do something every day that surprises me with their intelligence.

[–] christian@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I know orange cats have a reputation for being dumb but mine was by far the smartest cat I've had. He especially had an intuition for communication that none of my others did.

I was generally on top of keeping the water dish full and the one time it's getting low he does a loud meow to get me to look at him and plops down and does exaggerated head turns. He looks at the water dish for a couple seconds, looks at me, turns his head back to the water dish. Just zero ambiguity whatsoever. Hey jackass, do you see what I'm looking at?

I feel very confident my black cat would have handled this by rubbing his head against me in the exact same way he did when wanting attention or literally anything else.

[–] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

Mine has amazing comedic timing and great inflection, he's very expressive. I have full conversations with him sometimes its just the best.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 5 points 6 hours ago

Yea, once in a while you come across a cat that has a gift for interspecies communication. Yours sound like you could really exchange with him