*blink* Cats are strange. And maybe smarter than I know.

[xiphias]

So, Boopsie was standing by her food bowls (plural -- since she's been sick, there are a half-dozen bowls with a half-dozen different kinds of human food in them to try to tempt her to eat), looking up at me expectantly. I kept refilling different food bowls with different things, and she'd wander over to them, take a tentative lick, then look back up at me.

Finally, I walked over to her meds, got her Pepsid tablet (the vet put her on heartburn medication), popped her jaw open and dropped the pill down her throat. And Boopsie walked directly over to her food bowls and started eating.

So, it sure looks like she knows "THIS pill makes my stomach hurt less so I can eat." Weird, hunh?

Comments

[lietya.livejournal.com]

Heh. I don't know if one cat can learn to do it (although one of ours opens drawers with the handles), but I knew a pair of them who would have one hang from the doorknob and turn while the other pushed.

[michele-blue.livejournal.com]

...that's fantastic. Hee! They're so smart.