My cat is a genius. I used the word "Tuna" for the first time in 6 months

[applegrove]

and Captain Hughey knew right away to jump on the counter..... well maybe it took several tries. But he is brilliant I tell you. I also tell him "There. is. a. fly. on. your. head." buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz in Kamala Harris' voice and i buzz his head with my fingers. He likes that alot. What words does your cat know?

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Mine know 'NO' and "GET DOWN'

and of course, I love you!

[getagrip_already]

9. Mine know those also, they choose to ignore them.... n/t

[applegrove]

24. Mine too. No means i must want to pet them.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

2. Love, treats,

Stop, no, it's in your bowl, wanna go outside and play?
Want brushies,and do you want pets? Catnip And don't go in there/ don't do that ,come, breakfast,lunch,dinner,
food and Freeze.

[magicarpet]

3. The only language my cat knows is the whirl of the can opener.

Then he come running to chew on my ankle until I place his dish on the floor.

Such a symbiotic relationship if he is hungry. Other than that he totally ignores me.

[applegrove]

25. Mine big guy follows me everywhere. He's 7 and finally started sleeping in another

room half the time. I'm up into the wee hours so it must bother him. He follows the light outside.

[Binkie The Clown]

4. But does he know the names of thousdands of toys?

[tblue37]

8. I love that he grabs the new toy to play with at the end.

[applegrove]

13. Love it.

[Sylvarose]

5. Mine do not know words

...they only know the sounds of the treat drawer or can of food being opened.

However, I am expected to know the difference between the varying meows ie: "Where are you?", "Wake up and feed me," "Get that bug off the ceiling for me," "Pet me," "Bored now," etc...

[applegrove]

26. Yes. And the "feed me" meow replays endlessly for an hour.

[tblue37]

6. "Eat," "Oh, the baby," & "outside." They all know their names and "come here," too.

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[applegrove]

27. I clap sometimes to let them know it is time to eat. Sometimes i don't quite clap all the way and

that really confuses Captain Hughey.

[tblue37]

32. I clap to call them to me. If the one that sometimes goes outside is not in sight, I clap

and he comes running.

I taught them to come to claps because I physically cannot yell.

[applegrove]

35. My dad had a melodic whistle to get the then cat inside and fed when we were little. N/T

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[I_UndergroundPanther]

7. Love, treats,

Stop, no,
it's in your bowl, want?, wanna go outside, play?
Want brushies,do you want pets?
catnip, don't go in there/ don't do that ,danger,get out,
get off that,
be careful,come here, home, I'm home, where is it,go get it,fetch,freeze,sick
and hurts

[Faux pas]

10. ...

Treats, get the lil mouses, no (with pointed finger), not for kittens, get cozy on the bed, get cozy on the chair. Lol I'm sure there are more.

[applegrove]

28. When i wag my finger no in Hughey's face he knocks my hand down

with his pw. He wants none of that.

[denbot]

11. Scratchy, treats, No! Outside!

And each know their individual names. I know they know more, but they play it close to the vest.

[applegrove]

29. My little one doesn't cry out but she watches me bathe. I think she is frightened

of the water for me.

[Dream Girl]

12. When I say "hey guys!" my dog and cat know th@t means both of them and that we'll be doing

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something fun like go outside and hang out in the sunshine. Or maybe…Treats! When I say “Hey guys!” They both come running. It’s the cutest thing.

[applegrove]

30. Sweet.

[csziggy]

14. I wish I could teach my cats to use buttons like Billi does!

Mine just know "canned food" and "stale crunchies" - and maybe "good crunchies."

[applegrove]

31. How smart is that.

[Fla Dem]

15. Also tuna, additionally lunch, brush and hug.

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When I say “brush” she immediately jumps up on the sofa for a brush. When I say let's have a “hug”, she immediately jumps OFF the sofa and away from my reach.

[applegrove]

16. LOL!

[wnylib]

17. Quite a few, for a cat.

She knows her name, of course, but picked up my name, too, from context use.

Good girl
Bad girl
Hungry
Treat
Tuna
No-no
Please don't do that.
Nighty-night. (Jumps in bed when she hears that)
Here (with gestures)
OK (meaning yes)
It's all right (as in Relax, don't worry.)
Play, Wanna play?
Ouch, don't hurt me (When she plays too roughly)
Get down

Plus the names of the following toys:

Ball (fuzzy ball attached to a stretchy cord)
Crinkle (rolled up, tightly packed foil ball)
Bubbles (the kind with a wand)
Red light (laser light)
Chickie (small, wind up chicken)

She seems to be wired for language. I never had any other cat who learned words so well.

[applegrove]

18. Wow. Mine is illiterate compared to yours.

[wnylib]

20. LOL. I left out the fact that she also

picks up the meaning if I put together two words that she knows, with gestures

Example: Her name is Ember. When she was curled up on a chair that I wanted to sit on, I pointed to her, said her name, and then tapped her cat tree. "Ember here." Then I pointed to myself, said my name, and tapped the chair she was curled up on. "Wnylib here." I repeated the words and gestures a couple times. She got off the chair and leaped onto the cat tree.

Edit to add: Sometimes I just say, "Wnylib here," and tap the chair she is on. She gets down.

[Fla Dem]

39. Very impressive. I think my girl knows more than the ones I posted above, but

she just won't give me the satisfaction of letting me know what she knows. lol

[wnylib]

41. LOL indeed. I think that is true for

most cats. Mine definitely knows what "get down" means, but will test me sometimes on whether I will enforce it. She likes to push the envelope in order to maintain her feline independence.

She does understand that the sounds from my mouth mean something. When I speak to her, she looks attentively at me. It freaks her out if I hum. I think it's because I am making sounds without moving my lips. She is also fascinated by whistling. The stranger the whistle sound, the more intrigued she is by it. So she is learning to come to me when I whistle, out of curiosity.

I know that she is distinguishing the word sounds because I keep her treats in a different place from her regular food. If I say "treat" she stands by the fridge. If I say "hungry" she goes to the cupboard where her food is kept.

I think that cats, dogs, and other animals are able to understand some degree of human language because they have their own species sounds that they use for communication among themselves. When they bond with a human, they transfer that comprehension capacity across species. Just a speculation of mine since I don't know of any studies on that. But, it works that way with people. We are "wired" for language. So, we pay attention to the different types of dog barks, cat meows, and body language to figure out what our animals are "saying" or expressing. So why wouldn't animals do that with us, especially other mammals that are social creatures like us? Some species and individuals within species do it better than others.

[Trueblue1968]

19. my 5 cats know the words ::: NO and JUMP UP.

JUMP UP associated with eating. Our BOY CAT SALLY knows GO OUTSIDE and GO FOR A WALK.

[wnylib]

21. Boy cat "Sally?" Is that like

A boy called Sue?

[Trueblue1968]

23. SALLY was a feral kitten at my hubby's feral cat colony. he took care of them. Sally was

a little kitten and hubby brought him home. Sally had a kitty cold and we took him to the vet to get checked out and get medicine for his upper respiratory sickness. while at the vet, we asked the vet the sex of the kitten. Vet looked at Sally and said HE WAS A GIRL. That was fine with me because we were going to keep the kitty. we gave the kitty medicine and he got better. took kitty for check up to make sure he was cured. We asked the vet (( who was a different doctor from the first doctor )) if Sally was a girl and the lady vet said YES, THE KITTEN WAS A GIRL.

Sally got along with our other 4 cats and he was really smart.... he quickly knew his name. one morning a couple weeks later i saw SALLY on the bed giving himself a bath..... Sally was licking his "Oscar Meyer" and WE THEN REALIZED THE VETS WERE WRONG.

SALLY WAS A BOY. Since he already knew his name was -- SALLY -- we kept it.

So he is our Sally Man Der boy.... Sally is now 8 years old. He likes to go for walks wearing his harness.

[applegrove]

33. I changed my cats name when he was older. Store named him after a pirate

and I thought it was cute. Then i read James A. Mitchener's "Caribbean" so now he is Captain Hughey. I kept the Captain part so he is not confused.

[tblue37]

36. My cousin Sal (Salvatore) was called Sally. It's an Italian thing. My dad, whose original

name was also Salvatore, went by Sam. (He changed it to Samuel when he joined the service during WWII.)

[Trueblue1968]

37. i call my boy Sally Man. Well what goes after those 2 words but DER

that is why i call kitty boy my SallyManDer. He has LOTS of Nick names!!


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[wnylib]

38. Ah, so Sally becomes Salvatore, like Sal Mineo.

[Ocelot II]

22. My cat knows FOOD and BEDTIME.

Especially FOOD.

[applegrove]

34. They are one track minded.

[wnylib]

42. Oh yeah. Nothing seems to motivate a cat

more than food.

[lucca18]

40. My cat knew "do you want to eat"!

She would be in the backyard, and I would call out to her from the house, “do you want to eat”!
Samantha would immediately come running into the house for food!

[Buckeye_Democrat]

43. Supposedly, many cats don't follow pointing by humans.

Yet every cat that I ever owned would look where I was pointing my finger, especially if I said a word that it recognized too.