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Wow!
Elisabet

That's extremely interesting that she should recognise the same phrase from
someone she hardly knows.
My two seem to know a few phrases.  "Want to go out?"  They indicate yes or
no, by either getting close to the back door and looking up at the handle,
or coming away from it.
"Want something to eat?"  If they do, Kitty will go to her wet food bowl,
and Boyfriend will indicate what he would prefer.  Either he goes and looks
into his wet food bowl, or goes to the cupboard where he knows the dry food
is kept and stretches up to the top of the door of it.

BF also knows what "hurry up" means.  He likes to come down at dusk to help
me shut up the poultry, but he also likes to stroll around and check
everything.  He either gets shut in the orchard (he can easily jump on the
gate and get down) or he comes when I am leaving and say "hurry up, then."
as I want to close the gate.  Mostly he comes.  He understands another
"hurry up"  He accompanies me to do the chicken chores, morning and evening.
When I come back up the path to the house he used to stroll right in front
of my feet with his tail up, so I could hardly walk without stepping on him.
I did once step on him, and told him to hurry up.  He occasionally strolls
in front in a leisurely fashion, but as soon as he is told to "hurry up"  he
darts in front about 10 feet.

I suspect Kitty knows a lot more words, but she's retired from almost
everything.  Even knowing words.  She almost never hunts now, prefers
spending her time dozing in front of the fire and waking for food and toilet
duties.  She is very old, after all.
OMG, it won't be more than about 4 weeks before I go back to work.  Things
are coming together with the adaptations.
The cats will be shocked.  No meowmie from 8-4.  No heat during the daytime.
Gulp.  They've been used to having me here 24/7 for nearly a year.
Although they've also known the dreadful work times, when they listen for
meowmies car to come, and meet her on the front path, with the nearest to a
trill that Kitty FC can do.
They know the sound of the engine.  It took only 2 days when I got another
car for them to recognise that.
Awwwww.

Tweed

Thats like wilson, when he hears a noise from outside, when he's eating, or
just hanging around, he looks up as if he's expecting, an axe man to come
in after him, and I always say, its ok baby no-one's coming to hurt you, and
he looks at me and goes back to whatever he was doing, as though he knows
exactly what I said.      Jean.P.

Cali's big on language and she too settles down when you tell her "it's OK".
Although I doubt that she'd listen to a stranger telling her this. It would
be nice to teach Smokey this phrase, after her recent renovation scare.

Cali's other words include Window, Up, NO (although she claims otherwise),
meat, beef, food, bowl, water, squirrel, 'coon, birdies, bed, bedtime,
brush, my name, her name, Smokey, poops (litterbox), "good girl", "pretty
girl", fire and possibly a few others.

What a smart girl!
Christine