A cat with a dog's brain? How intriguing!
As a cat myself, the only recommendation Re: poo flinging I have is to duck and get the heck away from whoever is flinging it
Assuming you are aspie(cat) and NTs(monkeys).
I also find it funny how monkeys repeat what they are screaming over and over again just in a different way. I like to be short and hope that the one I am meowing to is intelligent enough to understand me.
One way to explain monkeys to cats, I suppose...
"While cats are content to lick their own bum, monkeys prefer to kiss each other's."
Cats *** in your sandbox when you are not home.
Only because the monkeys gave them a sandbox when they were kittens.
Yeah, I'm also one of thosefurless bipedal monkeys, and I still don't understand their behaviour.
At least cats bury their poos (most of the time).
I used to consider myself a penguin.
i dunno what i consider(ed) myself.. is that common?
I've always associated with cats, and I'm learning dog language. But yeah, a lot of Aspies have a talent for understanding animals of some sort or other; even NT kids like to pretend they're animals. I think children in general take animals much more seriously than adults do.
My kids love it when I interpret/translate their pets' behaviour into English. Perhaps it is because we have to concentrate so hard to understand NTs with all their verbal noise that we find animals much easier to understand. NTs have no difficulty understanding the meaning behind the verbal noise of others, so do not realise that other species communicate in other ways and assume that they have no meaningful languauge. I would often much rather have a conversation with a canine or feline person than a human person.
BTW -When I was at home in Ireland I recognised the local bird calls for "CAT!", and it helped me to know when one of my pets was home from the fields. They have different calls for "CROW!", "HUMAN!", "DOG!" and other threats. However, do birds in Ireland have a call for "SNAKE!"? I assume those here in Australia do. And I'm talking about the same species - blackbirds, sparrows and pigeons in particular were brought here as pets in the early days of European invasion.
Hi mick!
I have noticed different "accents" in the same species of pigeon in different countries. I wonder if a bird from another country were to be released among a flock of its own species, would they "pick on the foreigner" as I notice humans often do?
P.S. I was amused to see you are female - the only other mick I know is my son-out-law.
I think children in general take animals much more seriously than adults do.
Shame.
Monkeys have different words for "snake" and "leopard"
Orcas from different pods have accents -- each pod has its own signature call, which members from other pods occasionally attempt to mimic. But they never can do so as well as the original members.
Dolphin calls are so far the only calls that are currently considered as complex as verbal language.
Also, there is a story of a farmer who bought some cows in France. He tried to make the cows move, but they wouldn't obey any of his commands. Until he bought a French / English dictionary. The French cows, it seemed, would respond to French commands.
Also, I don't know about accents, but Japanese dogs don't respond to "sit". They respond to commands like, "osuwari", "matte", "Yosh!"
Hmm, she was probably mistreated in her previous home.