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Drivingidea.ru LogoArrow Those who had to keep a cat at home could see that it is a surprisingly smart animal, which over time acquires skills that make you admire its intelligence and observation.

The first thing that will probably catch your eye is the cat's discovery of the fact that the food given to him comes from the refrigerator. After a while, the hungry pet will no longer follow the owner, meow and rub against his legs, but will prefer to simply approach the refrigerator, raise his head and look at it, thereby letting him know that it is time to get something edible from it.

If the cat lives in a multi-story building without an elevator and often goes up the stairs with the owner, usually running one flight ahead, then he will quickly remember how many floors he needs to go up to reach his goal, and will accurately determine the door of the owner's apartment. That is why, returning early in the morning from a walk, the cat will count the flights himself and stop on the floor where he lives.

A cat walking home patiently waits for someone to open the front door for him,
after which he confidently rushes to the entrance to the owner's apartment

He does make mistakes, but not often - for example, he may stop one floor earlier, but he will start meowing at the door that is located on the landing in exactly the same way. There is a known case when the owner of the "wrong" apartment told the cat that made such a mistake: "You don't belong here, you need to go higher," - after which he looked at her, turned around and ran up to his floor. It is noteworthy that this cat rarely made mistakes and only in the direction of the mistake, and never went up the extra floor.

It turns out that cats not only count the floors to get home after a walk, but they can also
press the doorbell button themselves, jumping high onto the front door and clinging to it

Thanks to the Internet, where pet lovers post many videos about their lives, it became known that the amazing abilities of cats are not limited to the ability to count. It seems that they perfectly understand what their owners say to them, and even respond to them in their own cat language, the meaning of which is easy to understand from the environment in which this amazing dialogue takes place, and the intonations that prevail in it.

It is enough to watch a short video about the cat Nikifor, where the owner reproaches him for lying down right on the kitchen stove. Apparently, its surface was heated by the burning burners, which turned it into the most comfortable bed in the world, and the cat clearly did not want to leave this comfortable bed.

Nikifor the cat, who has long been a YouTube star, understands well the demand of the owner to jump
from the kitchen stove, but stubbornly objects to her, trying to express his disagreement in words form

He expressed his unwillingness to obey the mistress's requests almost verbally, that is, by uttering some short phrases, the meaning of which, strange as it may sound, was extremely clear: "I don't want to leave and I won't leave." This very unusual dialogue lasted about a minute, and eventually the cat Nikifor reluctantly got up and jumped off the stove. It should be noted that he did this without any physical coercion and especially without showing him signs of impending punishment in the form of a broom or towel. No, he jumped off precisely because he ultimately heeded the verbal demands of the mistress to leave the stove.

Some owners may have guessed that cats understand human speech very well, for example, by how quickly and accurately their pets follow their commands. If you give a cat a fish, which will be placed on a plate placed on the floor, and in the process of eating the fish moves to the linoleum, threatening to dirty the floor around, it is enough to loudly command: "On the plate!", - and the cat will obediently drag the fish to the dish. Moreover, cats themselves can try to communicate something with the help of intoned meowing.

Cat Maru shows an amazing ability to understand arithmetic problems given to him orally
and solve them, performing addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and even square root extraction

For example, if a cat walking down the street wants to jump on the lap of a stranger sitting on a bench, then, having approached, it will meow expressively and briefly, making it clear with its whole appearance that it is waiting for permission. All that remains is to pat the leg in a friendly manner, and the sociable cat will instantly jump on your lap, purring affectionately. Occasionally stroking it, you can sit like this for quite a long time, and the animal will even doze off, however, to interrupt this session of communication, it is enough to lightly pat the cat on the side with the words "time to go", and it, perfectly understanding what is required of it, will jump to the ground. Drivingidea.ru LogoArrow