Comments | xiphias: *blink* Cats are strange. And maybe smarter than I know.

xiphias

blink Cats are strange. And maybe smarter than I know.

Apr 04, 2007 13:50

So, Boopsie was standing by her food bowls (plural -- since she's been sick, there are a half-dozen bowls with a half-dozen different kinds of human food in them to try to tempt her to eat), looking up at me expectantly. I kept refilling different food bowls with different things, and she'd wander over to them, take a tentative lick, then look ( Read more... )

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vonandmoggy April 4 2007, 17:55:43 UTC

Have you posted a pic of Boopsie? I'd love to see one (if you have, I probably missed it...I have a way of missing obvious things these days, not sure why).

She's the first cat I've heard make the connection between a pill and feeling better...but that's awesome. It means she also must feel extra affectionate towards you, if she associates you with the pill with feeling better! :)

xiphias April 4 2007, 17:59:36 UTC

I haven't, but Lis has. Especially now that she got a cell phone with a camera in it.

vonandmoggy April 4 2007, 18:02:52 UTC

Ooooh Boopsie's beautiful...!

(And I actually get the feed from Rita Rambles...I never connected the two of you, though. Sometimes the internet boggles my mind!)

erin_c_1978 April 5 2007, 03:05:34 UTC

Pretty kitty!

nex0s April 4 2007, 18:06:03 UTC

This doesn't surprise me, as I have watched my cat reason out a solution to a problem before. It was oddly disturbing, and kind of cool.

Boopsie is very pretty!

N.

vvalkyri April 4 2007, 18:28:24 UTC

I'm impressed.

Have you tried gerber chicken? My parents have been feeding that to their poor jaw-wired kitty. I expect after he recovers he'll no longer be willing to eat anything else -- it used to be the 'where the heck is Frankie?' treat of last resort.

vvalkyri April 6 2007, 14:55:23 UTC

Oh, also the fish flakes like what you sometimes have on Japanese food.

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lietya April 4 2007, 18:53:58 UTC

Heh. I don't know if one cat can learn to do it (although one of ours opens drawers with the handles), but I knew a pair of them who would have one hang from the doorknob and turn while the other pushed.

geekosaur April 4 2007, 18:38:32 UTC

Oh, cats definitely learn to relate pills to medical issues. One of my parents' cats had asthma; she learned quickly to associate the pills we got for her with "hey, I can breathe!".