Not only to mama cats train their kitties, but cats can train each
other.  Many years ago, Pyewacket (RB) was caught when the automatic
garage door closed.  I still don't understand why he wasn't hurt.  He
was trapped between the side of the door and the wall.  When I looked
later, there was less than an inch between, but somehow he escaped
without injury.  However, he obviously had a fright (almost as bad as
mine), and he taught the other cats to run the other direction if they
heard the hum of the garage door closer.  That warning was obviously
passed down to subsequent cats.  Only within the last few months,
Skeeter has learned that the new closer will stop if anything goes
through the doorway as the door is closing.  She apparently likes the
power, and will often deliberately go through while it's closing, just
to make it stop.  So far it has continued to work, but I try to shoo her
away from the door before I close it.  Up until she began playing
"chicken" with the door, every cat we've had since Pye's episode has run
from the sound of the door closing.  That was obviously because Pye
passed on the story of his experience.

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Joy
We must love them both - those whose opinions we share and those whose
opinions we reject.  For both have labored in the Search for Truth and
both have helped us in the Finding of it.
- St. Thomas Aquinas