Stealthy visiting cat learned to eat dry cat food silently (and more)
Like many cat owners, I have a visiting cat from a neighbour’s home. In some ways I like it because my cat likes to play with the visitor and they get on fairly well...
Category: learning
Kitten raised on a military base learned to march
This is not only a cute cat video but an instructive one as well. It tells us a lot about how cats learn. The video occurred on December 2017 at Manisa, Turkey. The video...
Are you in sync with your cat?
Being in sync with your cat is good for him/her. I’ll use ‘him’ to mean him or her. It is good for both of you especially your cat because it is reassuring which promotes...
Why do cats hate tin foil?
Why do cats hate tin foil? Well, we shouldn’t generalise because some domestic cats are not fazed by tin foil (or only slightly so) but typically they are. The reason is that tin foil...
Cat yawns at water sprayed at him knowing that he’s behind a window?
I think that this video tells us a bit about the domestic cat’s mentality. It gives us a clue as to what they are thinking. But I’d like to know what people make of...
Cat Understands How A Flip Top Bin Works And Has Fun
She made a toy out of a flip top bin lid and in doing so learned how they work. There has to be a certain amount of intelligence involved to constantly flip that flipping...
Domestic cats can be unaware of potential human-created dangers
Sometimes cats just don’t understand the potential dangers they place themselves in. I suppose that this cat sees the children skateboarding around him and instinctively presumes that they will always avoid him. He does...
Explaining how this cat so competently opens a door
This cat looks very smart in the way he opens a door. He positions himself well and uses his weight to lever the door handle down. Observers are generally impressed and even amazed by...
How did this scientist get kittens to prefer bananas to meat?
The answer to the question in the title is that the scientist trained mother cats to eat bananas (for one minute put aside the morality and ethics of this experiment). He found that when...
My Cat Calls Me to Go out with Him at Night
My cat calls me to go out with him at night. He’s just done it. It was about 9:30 pm. I think I am imprinted on his brain as his mother/father. Today I took...
Video: Family Cat Uses Toilet Without Training
This tabby-and-white family cat wanted to use the family toilet and he did so without any training or encouragement. This is the first case of self-taught human toilet use by a cat that I...
Kitten Learns by Observing his Mother
I have written about this before but not seen such a good example on video of a kitten learning how to do things by direct observation of his mother. The first 30 seconds are...
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