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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / January 2007Do cats pretend they are people?
Do cats pretend they are people? Consider Anya. She is a half-Siamese kitty who is full-grown, and just less than a year old. When her owner steps out of the shower and turns off the water, she steps into the wet bathtub, shakes her feet a little bit, and then just sits there facing the showerhead for about five minutes. What is she thinking? When Anya's owners ask her to "do a summersault," she usually complies. She will tip her head down to the rug, and then roll over. She seems to like to please her owner. One day her owner was fooling around with 360 degree pirouettes, like dancers do. Anya saw that, and then turned around exactly 360 degrees two separate times within a few minutes. - from www.odd-info.com - Jeff www.unusualcoach.com > Do cats pretend they are people? Consider Anya. She is a half-Siamese > kitty who is full-grown, and just less than a year old. When her owner > steps out of the shower and turns off the water, she steps into the wet > bathtub, shakes her feet a little bit, and then just sits there facing > the showerhead for about five minutes.//// Miss Lily Whiskers gets into the shower with me and meows at me while I shower. Presumably she's supervising to make sure I bathe properly. Either that or she's telling me that most normal cats don't get deliberately wet. ;) Helen M >> Do cats pretend they are people? Consider Anya. She is a half-Siamese >> kitty who is full-grown, and just less than a year old. When her [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Helen M Persia walks along the edge of the tub yelling at me. Hey, get out of there! Don't you know you're getting wet?! She won't dare jump in there with me. And when I get out she licks my legs to help me dry off. She wouldn't deign to act like a person. She's too far above that. Jill Tyche jumps into the shower with her MotherFather all the time. She likes to lick the tub when he is done too, and rub up against his wet legs as he dries. I make sure to remove Tyche from the Chamber of Secrets (aka the bathroom) before I shower. Tyche and Kumani love to type. Their favourite is the number pad. DP was writing his masters' thesis while he nursed them and they, um, learned by example. Nox finds human-imitation to be loathsome and degrading, and Smokey doesn't see the point in unnecessary movement. I wonder if it's because the bitties imprinted on Dylan as their "natural mother" while Nox and Smokey, presumably, had contact with a feline mother. --Fil > >> Do cats pretend they are people? Consider Anya. She is a half-Siamese > >> kitty who is full-grown, and just less than a year old. When her > >> owner steps out of the shower and turns off the water, she steps > >> into the wet bathtub, shakes her feet a little bit, and then just > >> sits there facing the showerhead for about five minutes.//// > Persia walks along the edge of the tub yelling at me. Hey, get out of > there! Don't you know you're getting wet?! She won't dare jump in there > with me. And when I get out she licks my legs to help me dry off. She > wouldn't deign to act like a person. She's too far above that. Count yourself lucky! A friend of mine had a (long-haired) cat who was absolutely mesmerized by water. (She'd often find him posed motionless over a mud puddle, outdoors.) If she forgot to shut the bathroom door when she took a bath, he was right there on the edge of the tub, bending over further and further until... SPLASH! (And she'd have to use her towel to dry him off, while she dripped all over the floor.) >> Persia walks along the edge of the tub yelling at me. Hey, get out of >> there! Don't you know you're getting wet?! She won't dare jump in there [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >further and further until... SPLASH! (And she'd have to use >her towel to dry him off, while she dripped all over the floor.) I have had cats fall into the tub a couple of times, generally leaving me with a few scratches as they leap out of the tub in horror at having suddenly gotten wet. Every cat that I have ever had has tried sitting on the edge of the tub and leaning waaaaaaaaay over so that they can drink some of the bathwater.  SignatureJohn F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria >> Do cats pretend they are people? Consider Anya. She is a half-Siamese >> kitty who is full-grown, and just less than a year old. When her owner [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > >Helen M I do think that when they're young they start to imitate us in ways, and hang around us, because we're their families-- and the habits just persist into adulthood. Stinky is a very talky non-Siamese, and I'm certain it has to do with the amount of talking that goes on around here. When he was a little fellow, he started to add his two cents to conversations, and walk up to us with a loud meow or chirrup-- and I think it's because he got the message that you'd better speak up around here. ;) And I saw pretty much the same thing happen when Dante arrived. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh Make Levees, Not War > I do think that when they're young they start to imitate us in ways, > and hang around us, because we're their families-- and the habits just [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Dante arrived. > Theresa Conversing with your cat(s) can be fascinating - and they seem to think so too. I wrote a little something about the subject for "Flippy" for her cat website, if you're interested. http://www.flippyscatpage.com/yaddayadda.html >> I do think that when they're young they start to imitate us in ways, >> and hang around us, because we're their families-- and the habits just [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > http://www.flippyscatpage.com/yaddayadda.html I read it; thanks for the link. Forgive me if I repeat myself here, but Ketzl does understand quite a few words, if not entire sentences, not just his own name. The words in question are distinct enough from one another that I'm sure he has formed the correct association with the sound of them, over time. Eat Out Brush Bedtime Poopoo :-) As for conversing, he doesn't say an awful lot, unlike me, who is ever babbling to him. This morning for example, after breakfast I had a couple of clementines (they're so sweet and juicy just now!) and when I went into the living room and sat down on the sofa, Ketzl, who was curled up near asleep on the other end, lifted his head towards me and I could see his little pink nostrils flaring. Without hesitation or even considering the inanity of it, I said "Yes, I had a couple of clementines. Is that okay with you?" It was a fairly new smell to him, as I don't get them all that often. He put his head back down, but I could swear his thought bubble said, "Like I give a $h*t." SignatureJoey DoWop Dee Remember: It is To Laugh > > Conversing with your cat(s) can be fascinating - and they seem to > > think so too. I wrote a little something about the subject for > > "Flippy" for her cat website, if you're interested. > >http://www.flippyscatpage.com/yaddayadda.html I read it; thanks for the link. Forgive me if I repeat myself here, but Ketzl > does understand quite a few words, if not entire sentences, not just his own > name. The words in question are distinct enough from one another that I'm > sure he has formed the correct association with the sound of them, over time. > Joey DoWop Dee Actually I know what you mean, and the web site item I wrote was misleading. I guess I was basing it on OUR cats, who usually don't respond as readily to human words as Ketzl. I remember attending a banquet at the University of Toronto for the late Hugh Kenner, a prominent academic who'd just completed that year's Massey Lectures for radio. All the other academics were trying to get a word with him about his subject, modern literature. But he and his wife spotted me - I'd worked with him on the broadcasts - and called me over to sit beside them. They knew I was a cat-lover, and Hugh launched into how their Siamese could actually speak English words! I wound up sitting beside them for the banquet, and that was the main topic. Later his wife sent me an illustrated cat book which I treasure. As for our own cats, I think Emily know one word - "jump!" if I want her up on something. But being a cat she takes her sweet time about it. "javawizard" <javawizard@aol.com> wrote in news:1169866872.415321.157470 @a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com: > Do cats pretend they are people? > - Jeff > www.unusualcoach.com They're not?! Andy > Do cats pretend they are people? Only for other cats' amusement, mocking us when we're not around. Otherwise they have no reason to pretend they're people because compared to mere humans they know they're superior beings. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- From: "javawizard" <javawizard@aol.com> >Do cats pretend they are people? They'd never stoop that low. No. People pretend that cats are people. When i had my Fritzie, he'd do typical bratty-cat things and I'd scold him thusly: "Fritzie! Stop that (insert bratty-cat thing here) NOW!" When Louie and I moved into our little house with the fenced-in yard we decided it wouldn't hurt to let Fritzie take a walk. We'd tell him "Fritzie go OUT? Fritzie go OUT?" and soon he figured he'd get to go out and smell the roses if he stood by the door and kept up a stream of repeated "Mrah-ROWR?" And then one day he got demanding: "Muh-rowr-ROW! Muh-rowr-ROW!" Louie came out of the bathroom with a very perturbed look on his face. "Dear, is he saying 'Go out NOW'?" "Yep." After 16 years with my Fritzie, I wasn't flapped a bit, but Louie muttered that it was a good thing that cat was fixed or a future Charton Hestonesque fellow would be starring in Planet of the Cats. Nowadays, we have a couple of overgrown hoolikittens and some too-smart-for- humans-own-good Ladies and I don't trust them out of doors as far as I can throw...oh, a semi or maybe a large building. Blessed be, Baha >Do cats pretend they are people? Consider Anya. She is a half-Siamese >kitty who is full-grown, and just less than a year old. When her owner [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >- Jeff >www.unusualcoach.com
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