{"id":5040,"date":"2021-06-23T02:57:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T10:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=5040"},"modified":"2021-06-23T02:57:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T10:57:20","slug":"wild-and-sometimes-crazy-wednesday-does-your-cat-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=5040","title":{"rendered":"Wild (and Sometimes Crazy) Wednesday \u2013 Does Your Cat Get It?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"When you talk to your cat, does she understand? Does she know by the words or the gestures that it\u2019s time to eat? Sophie actually seems to figure it out by what\u2019s on TV. She stares at the TV sometimes in the late afternoon and if she sees Judge Judy, she continues her nap or playing or whatever. If it\u2019s the news, she\"\"starts bugging us for dinner.<\/p>\n

Both cats recognize their name when we say it\u2014whether we\u2019re addressing the cat or talking \"\"about them. Is it the actual word they understand or do we give each name a little different tone or cadence? Experts say that cats can actually understand 25-30 words.<\/p>\n

Olivia seems to understand a lot of words, but she\u2019ll \"\"react most exuberantly to \u201cPlay!\u201d A couple of days ago she was bumping up against me, pawing at me, mewing. Finally I said, \u201cOlivia, do you want to play?\u201d She leaped off my desk and tore out of the room. I followed and found her looking at her favorite rubber bouncy ball in anticipation. She loves chasing that ball up and down the uncarpeted hallway.<\/p>\n

The one word the cats either don\u2019t get or are too stubborn to respond to is \u201cNO\u201d as in \u201cstop clawing the sofa,\u201d or \u201cleave that plant alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

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When you talk to your cat, does she understand? Does she know by the words or the gestures that it\u2019s time to eat? Sophie actually seems to figure it out by what\u2019s on TV. She stares at the TV sometimes … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5041,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040\/revisions\/5041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}