cats read your minds

when i am putting on makeup or doing my hair my cat is there is a flash to climb into the bathroom drawers but if I open the exact same draw to get a gauze pad to apply hydrogen peroxide to her chin she bolts before I remove any of the supplies. Obviously she knows what I am thinking. Likewise if i open a basket where I keep a bottle of benadryl, she is right there inspecting the goods, but when i open the same basket to get her clippers and she is heading in the opposite direction.

How do they do this?

Well, if you remember, I mentioned remembering a couple of days ago which you responded to. Now, if you are sure that he is not seeing these items, then purrhaps he IS reading your mind. I just read in Popular Science not that long ago about the heavy investigation the Russians have always done on this very subject. Unfortunatly, I was not privy to the findings but I have a sneaking suspicion that your suspicion is right on the money.

You are probably acting ever so slightly differently in both cases. Or it's at a different time of day, or something else people wouldn't even notice. Like how you can tell when someone's lying, but can't usually put your finger on what tipped you off.

Or, yes, you're cats psychic. Don't ever think the word "vet"

Originally Posted by Zissou'sMom

Or, yes, you're cats psychic. Don't ever think the word "vet"

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thats funny. when we think vet she never fusses. she is always eager to get in her carrier and see where we are going. she would travel on all my errands with me if the stores would let her in.

I have to think that they are more attuned to differences in how we do things. Like maybe you look at her funny when you are going in the basket for her, and you dismiss her casually when you go in the basket for you. I think they are just professional at paying attention.

With my girls I have to be creative in how I do those sort of things with them. My clippers move with me from room to room until I'm good and ready to snip some claws when they least expect it.

When I pull out the carrier, they both go running for the hills. So I have to take it into a different room a day or two early, and I pick them up one by one casually the next day then take them into the room with the carrier. They don't know what hit them until they are in the car. Overall it's surprisingly difficult to outsmart my cats.

It has actually gotten easier to get Gizmo into the carrier...I just pick her up and put her in. She doesn't try to escape but does make sad noises.

I think that when I first got her she struggled more since she associated carriers with abandonment. Her previous owners had brought her over in a hardsided model that I think I'm going to dispose of; the soft one works better and is easier to travel with.

Originally Posted by gizmocat

It has actually gotten easier to get Gizmo into the carrier...I just pick her up and put her in. She doesn't try to escape but does make sad noises.

I think that when I first got her she struggled more since she associated carriers with abandonment. Her previous owners had brought her over in a hardsided model that I think I'm going to dispose of; the soft one works better and is easier to travel with.

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Here is Persi WAITING for the door to be closed on his carrier and be taken to the vet!!
100% truth.

I swear if I think about getting a bowl of cereal, Laura is at the fridge meowing for the milk to come out!

and my cat can hear the difference between her food plate and my dinner plate two floors away. wouldn't you like to be your own cat for just one day?

Originally Posted by Abigail

and my cat can hear the difference between her food plate and my dinner plate two floors away. wouldn't you like to be your own cat for just one day?

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Oh yeah! If only for the lazy sleep anytime you want to perk!

Cindy is a finicky eater. Sometimes you put a bowl in front of her and she'll sit there like a princess and not budge. The other day, husband said, Cindy you better eat or we'll have to take you to the vet. Don't you know she got up and started to eat. We both had quite a laugh.