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Telling thetime

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watermeadow Tue 23-Mar-21 05:50:21

I feed the cat and dog by the clock, otherwise they would keep pushing the time back and pestering me earlier and earlier.
Dog understands this and doesn’t get up until breakfast time (6am)
Cat can’t tell the time and, if I get up in the middle of the night, he starts yelling for food and keeps it up until I feed at 6. Is he particularly thick or do most cats have no sense of human time?

sazz1 Thu 25-Mar-21 20:57:32

My OH used to work irregular hours and often away from home but my collie always knew when he was on the way. She would start sitting up looking out of the front double glazed window about 10-15 minutes before he came in the back door. He would be driving up the 3 mile long main road at that time which we lived on. How she knew I never understood but she was always right.