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Re: Cats learn the names of their friend cats in their daily lives

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Post by anotherevan »

Small digression, but we recently got a dog. Acclimation with our two cats has been a long process. One cat is fine with him, the other spends most of his time in our daughter's room (which has a child-gate on the door to keep the dog out).

The speed at which the dog figured out the cats names was incredible. You say the friendly cat's name and he would look up with mild interest. When he's fast asleep you could say the shy cat's name and he would bounce up going, "Where? Where? Where?"

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Post by treeman79 »

richrichardsson wrote: post #157
treeman79 wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mine has trained the family that when he is hungry he starts slamming covered doors opening closed repeatedly. Started off that we kept food in there. So of course he would try and get in. This lead to him being fed when was trying to get in. So now it’s a signal. We have been well trained

A bit O/T, but presumably you meant "cupboard" doors. What I'm curious about is was this just a stretch of an autocorrect, or if English is a second language, as I could see that it might be a plausible approximation of cupboard if you'd only ever heard the word. I find this kind of thing fascinating, as when I'm trying to learn another language it's all too easy to hear something and switch it to another word that's…

I had a series of strokes. I mix up words a lot since. Cupboard is correct.

Re: Cats learn the names of their friend cats in their daily lives

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Post by nlh »

herodotus wrote: post #21

I have tried to train my two cats with just these words: 1. "Let's go" - morning meal 2. "Upstairs" - I am going to bed 3. "Dinner" (plus clink bowls together) - evening meal 4. "Lie Down" and their names. Emerald, who prefers being upstairs, definitely responds to "Upstairs": she charges upstairs when I say it. Jade remains enigmatic and skeptical: that seems to be her nature. But if she is in the mood for a tummy r…

In a similar vein, one of the charming things about my cat is when he chooses to step on my arm/hand/leg as he's walking around me or clamoring for attention. It's done so elegantly that it would be easy to say "oh that's just where he happened to step, and your arm was in the way."

But! Watch him navigate the minefield of my desk as he's going to get a sip of water and you'll realize that he absolutely knows exactly where each paw is going with extreme precision on each step. The effortless "oops did I just step on your hand so you'll notice me?" is anything but an oops :)

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Post by wholinator2 »

treeman79 wrote: post #162
richrichardsson wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A bit O/T, but presumably you meant "cupboard" doors. What I'm curious about is was this just a stretch of an autocorrect, or if English is a second language, as I could see that it might be a plausible approximation of cupboard if you'd only ever heard the word. I find this kind of thing fascinating, as when I'm trying to learn another language it's all too easy to hear something and switch it to another word that's…

I had a series of strokes. I mix up words a lot since. Cupboard is correct.

One of my relatives has a similar thing. I hope things are goin well for ya my dude.

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Post by selfmodruntime »

cookiengineer wrote: post #154
herodotus wrote: post #21

I have tried to train my two cats with just these words: 1. "Let's go" - morning meal 2. "Upstairs" - I am going to bed 3. "Dinner" (plus clink bowls together) - evening meal 4. "Lie Down" and their names. Emerald, who prefers being upstairs, definitely responds to "Upstairs": she charges upstairs when I say it. Jade remains enigmatic and skeptical: that seems to be her nature. But if she is in the mood for a tummy r…

We trained our cat from a very young age, and used it as a routine for getting treats or food. The cat is able to do the following: - sit - spin (rotate in a circle) - "up up" to stand on their feet, tapping my finger with the paws - "high five" and "low five" - "platz" to lay down on all fours - "come on" to follow around - "nom nom" to signal whether or not it wants food. You can see the eyes getting big immediatel…

This seems to be true. My one cat has different „urrr‘s“ and screams for wanting food, attention, begging someone to open a door and especially when he has to relieve himself but his toilet is not in an acceptable state.

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Post by arthurcolle »

nlh wrote: post #163
herodotus wrote: post #21

I have tried to train my two cats with just these words: 1. "Let's go" - morning meal 2. "Upstairs" - I am going to bed 3. "Dinner" (plus clink bowls together) - evening meal 4. "Lie Down" and their names. Emerald, who prefers being upstairs, definitely responds to "Upstairs": she charges upstairs when I say it. Jade remains enigmatic and skeptical: that seems to be her nature. But if she is in the mood for a tummy r…

In a similar vein, one of the charming things about my cat is when he chooses to step on my arm/hand/leg as he's walking around me or clamoring for attention. It's done so elegantly that it would be easy to say "oh that's just where he happened to step, and your arm was in the way." But! Watch him navigate the minefield of my desk as he's going to get a sip of water and you'll realize that he absolutely knows exactly…

I loved when my parents' cat named Booboo (RIP litle buddy) would do the deliberate step onto my belly/arms lol, and also look into the distance/ out a window. Literally a call to action a la Calvin & Hobbes "so what are we doing today, human?"

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Post by [deleted] »

godelski wrote: post #121
Crosseye_Jack wrote: post #102

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> Jade remains enigmatic and skeptical: that seems to be her nature. Its been shown in the past (not got the links to hand, and cba to google right now, but I'm sure they wont be hard to find) that cats know their name, its just often they don't give a shit when you call them. Which pretty much any cat servant will understand. Wouldn't be surprised that also applies to other words/commands. EDIT: My own cat knows her…

That's weird, my cat will come no matter what name I call her as long as I use the same intonations. I'm not convinced she knows her name but rather that she knows pitches. Similarly my cat won't do tricks without the hand gestures despite me always using the same commands. Maybe my cat is just dumb or stubborn, or both. I have seen her run head first into a wall before.

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Re: Cats learn the names of their friend cats in their daily lives

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Post by Smoosh »

hunterb123 wrote: post #152
tarentel wrote: post #75

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My cat has at least 20 meows. I understand about 5 of them. Some of them are easy, like if she wants food or if she wants me to follow her for whatever reasons. Some of them I have no idea what she's going on about but I can tell it's different then her wanting to play or just wants to be pet.

For real. Off the top of my head there's, MeerrrOOOOOwww MerrrOOOOwww, the loudest one, huge inflection in the middle. Generally while strolling through the house, back and forth. I think that's the "I'm bored" one. But he'll also do it if I stay up. If someone is out of bed past curfew he'll do it. I have to close the bedroom door or he'll wake the wife. If you say summon him he'll probably ignore you but if he's in…

Do you also get a BRRRP or MRRRP when he's snoozing and you put a hand on him? Our cat does that. And a similar noise to say "hello" when coming into a room or approaching you.

Re: Cats learn the names of their friend cats in their daily lives

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Post by stormbrew »

herodotus wrote: post #21

I have tried to train my two cats with just these words: 1. "Let's go" - morning meal 2. "Upstairs" - I am going to bed 3. "Dinner" (plus clink bowls together) - evening meal 4. "Lie Down" and their names. Emerald, who prefers being upstairs, definitely responds to "Upstairs": she charges upstairs when I say it. Jade remains enigmatic and skeptical: that seems to be her nature. But if she is in the mood for a tummy r…

This is really more of a comment on a lot of the replies to this comment than the comment itself:

Something to keep in mind is that cats have a very broad but different hearing range from humans. Their central frequency range of hearing overlaps with human speech but doesn't entirely cover it on the low end. So if your voice is low, you might need to raise your pitch a bit to help the cat recognize it as vocalization or differentiate it.

And they also don't really naturally communicate with vocalizations (unlike dogs, I believe); cat to cat communication is through other means. They literally learned to meow to talk to us because we don't understand their communication methods (sometimes, but not always, because we lack the senses to do so). So I think that's something to keep in mind if you feel like your cat is being obtuse: they're literally working pretty hard to make you understand them, actually.

So like, it's not that surprising that sometimes they just don't want to put in the effort. You'd probably feel the same way.

Re: Cats learn the names of their friend cats in their daily lives

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Post by elliottcarlson »

selfmodruntime wrote: post #165
cookiengineer wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We trained our cat from a very young age, and used it as a routine for getting treats or food. The cat is able to do the following: - sit - spin (rotate in a circle) - "up up" to stand on their feet, tapping my finger with the paws - "high five" and "low five" - "platz" to lay down on all fours - "come on" to follow around - "nom nom" to signal whether or not it wants food. You can see the eyes getting big immediatel…

This seems to be true. My one cat has different „urrr‘s“ and screams for wanting food, attention, begging someone to open a door and especially when he has to relieve himself but his toilet is not in an acceptable state.

My cat definitely has different sounds for different behaviors -- the most interesting one is when I leave the house and he didn't see me leave, I will get a notification from my nest cam that it thought it heard someone speaking, which will be my cat making a guttural sound that sounds eerily like "hello?" - he will sometimes do this if he can't find me in the house.

A second distinct meow he makes is when he is able to sneak past the baby gate to run down the stairs to the front door -- I call this his "see ya, sucker" meow.

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