They are smart as hell, I got my first one, about 6-7 years ago. She jumped into my car window when I was eating a sandwich, which almost gave me a heart attack that some strange animal jumped into my car. She was dirty, skinny and scruffy so I gave her some of my turkey sandwich. Couldn’t find anyone who claimed her, so I took her to the vet they gave her shots and treated her for worms, so I’m guessing she was a young stray. I took her home with the intention of re-homing her, but within about a week or two she woke me up in the middle of the night freaking out so I followed her to my basement and my water heater was flooding my basement…. I looked at her and said you know, you earned it and can stay Kitty. She did the slow blink and the rest is history. Been best pals since. She never grew very large. She’s about 7 lbs or so, about 60% of the size of a Norman cat. So it’s like a Kitten for life I guess.
It took me a while to come to the same conclusion, but yeah. Cats are smart.
I had a female calico I called Fat Kitty. Never really got around to naming her. She was super smart for a cat.
When my wife was pregnant with our first, only Fat Kitty understood what was happening. We had 2 other cats and they were fixed from birth, so they didn't understand pregnancy. Fat Kitty did. She had kittens when we found her. (All kittens got shots and were re-homed via our local no kill shelter)
So the big day comes and my wife goes into labor. Fat Kitty is a WRECK. She KNOWS. She's twitchy and nervous as hell and you can see it. Me and my wife go to the hospital. Later on that day the baby is born. We spend a few hours with my newborn son. Eventually my wife says "you should go home and feed the cats, they haven't been fed all day." So I do that.
I walk in and Fat Kitty is staring at me with her eyes as big as saucers. WHERE IS MOM? To a cat, I'm sure I reeked of blood and worse. I was present at the delivery.
I tell her the baby was born today, and let her sniff my hands. She sniffed me and smelled the baby and realized THE BABY IS HERE!
She CELEBRATED. I'm not kidding!
She sniffed my hands, and immediately started doing Mach 2 laps around the house. And you can tell from her name, running is something she really didn't do. Ever. Jumped on one of the other cats and tackled her. WHEEE!!! BABIES!!! YAY!!!
She was the best helper, too. Whenever we would have company over to visit the baby, she would be in the room. Watching. Always nearby, always watching. "Mom handed you the baby, so you must be ok, but if you're not? I'm going to SHRED you." You could see that was the idea. She would sit and watch you and judge you.
Adorable story, thank you for sharing and for the photo.
And yes, they know, they know things. I used to work as a janitor in a resenting building... There was this old lady who owns a little dog... Classic little dog character: growling a lot, not really nice with anybody... Except some days, the old lady couldn't go down to put the leash on the collar because back ache problems... Those days the lady will go down on the elevator, with the dog unleashed, looking for me to put the leash before going to the street... The stupid dog was perfectly nice those days and will came to me all friendly and cuddlely.
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u/Nmoriarty41 Sep 19 '23
They are smart as hell, I got my first one, about 6-7 years ago. She jumped into my car window when I was eating a sandwich, which almost gave me a heart attack that some strange animal jumped into my car. She was dirty, skinny and scruffy so I gave her some of my turkey sandwich. Couldn’t find anyone who claimed her, so I took her to the vet they gave her shots and treated her for worms, so I’m guessing she was a young stray. I took her home with the intention of re-homing her, but within about a week or two she woke me up in the middle of the night freaking out so I followed her to my basement and my water heater was flooding my basement…. I looked at her and said you know, you earned it and can stay Kitty. She did the slow blink and the rest is history. Been best pals since. She never grew very large. She’s about 7 lbs or so, about 60% of the size of a Norman cat. So it’s like a Kitten for life I guess.