If you’re a cat person — or even a dog person — I am pretty sure that at some point you have said, “if they could just talk to us!” They do talk to us, of course, but it’s we who don’t understand. And we, of course, are the more intelligent species, yet we can’t learn a few simple words of Cat? or Dog? So how many words or phrases does your cat know? “Treat,” “Dinner,” “Outside,” “Where’s your mouse?” and no doubt several more. My cats each know several words, and yet I — the care-giver, tuna-winner and cat-butler, the one who knows how to open the sliding door as well as a can of cat food — I know not a single word of Cat. They can make their wishes known, of course, by sitting in front of the door and meowing, or standing by the food dish and giving me The Look. But if… Read More »