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Do pets really remember?
"Ablang" wrote in message ... Some people say that pets are just stupid, some people say they are smart, that maybe they really can understand a few English phrases. Are they (cats & dogs) able to remember? Let's hear your story supporting this. Cats definitely can remember. I adopted my first cat (at least, the first one that was "my own" as an adult) when I was graduate school -- feral, and developed into a marvellous companion. I still spent summers with my parents and continued to spend several weeks at their home even after I left graduate school and was "on my own." On one occasion when I was visiting them, they had some minor construction work done. The handyman who was working for them went into their basement, opened a hole into the wall, removed ductwork that extended upward from the basement into the second story of the home, and inserted new ductwork. I wasn't home at the time, but my father stood at the exterior door to the basement until everything was inside just to make sure that nothing could happen to my cat. By the time I returned home, everything had been completed. I started to hear my cat (Raucher) cry out. I kept calling him and he kept crying. I followed the cry all over the house and couldn't figure out where he was. Then I looked up and discovered his paw sticking out of an airconditioning vent (ceiling height) of the first floor. He had somehow crawled up the wall, the ductwork was inserted (fortunately without injuring him), and he was now plastered in the wall!! My father went up to the second story where the ductwork ended beneath a closet. He sawed a small hole in the closet floor and called my cat. Raucher crawled up to him, lifted himself part-way out of the hole but realized it was too small, then backed down and hung on and waited for Dad to enlarge the hole. I have always thought that was incredibly smart -- in a similar circumstance, I would probably have panicked and gotten myself wedged by trying to force myself through a too-small opening. As to your specific question: from that time on (and this went on for several years because my parents used this same person as a general handyman for many projects), every time that man's truck entered the driveway, Raucher would disappear. He did it only for this person's truck -- he never hid out from anyone else, and he even didn't hide from the handyman if he came in his car instead of the truck. He would go into hiding as soon as the truck entered the driveway and would remain in hiding until it left. The minute the truck exited the driveway, Raucher would reappear. Remarkably intelligent, I think! MaryL (take out the litter to reply) Photos of Duffy and Holly: 'o' http://tinyurl.com/8y54 (Introducing Duffy to Holly) http://tinyurl.com/8y56 (Duffy and Holly "settle in") |
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