*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?

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[desperance.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is smart...

Side-issue, though: when Barry first moved in and wasn't eating, I did that same thing with half a dozen bowls of differently-desirable foods, and he sniffed and licked variously and didn't eat any of them. When I talked to the vet, she said not to do that, it's counter-productive (probably because they keep hoping that a seventh bowl of superfood will eventually appear?); a single bowl of something desirable-but-simple (chicken & rice was her own recommendation) is better, she said. Which worked with Barry. On the other hand, if Pepsids work for Boopsie...