They are displeased
They are displeased
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This post was found on the owner’s dead body 3 weeks later
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To be fair, one could have said you were taking them for a walk right before this photo, too.
Or that a baby was en route. Or the ice cream truck was around the corner.
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This is not a controversial take:
Cats understand human language far better than most people give them credit for.
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That's true but in my experience they have no concept of abstraction so a dog that they haven't met yet wouldn't mean anything to them. Once they know the dog they can easily learn its name but they need lived experience to associate with it.
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In fact, that is the expert consensus on language skills among animals (according to John McWhorter's "The Story of Human Language"). Animals understand and can "talk" about things in the here and now but not in the past, in the future, or in abstract terms.
(My source was published in 2004 but I haven't heard anything to the contrary since then.)
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Like Eric Cartman reacting to his mom getting a new job
"But I am your job"
(edited to correct a spelling error)
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