"James Wilkinson Sword" wrote in message
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On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 01:03:44 +0100, Rod Speed
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"James Wilkinson Sword" wrote in message
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On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 23:58:55 +0100, wrote:



"James Wilkinson Sword" wrote in message
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On 17/04/2017 18:15, Rod Speed wrote:
Mike Tomlinson wrote
tim... wrote

to come back when called, not so

All the kittens with the exception of one now come when called.

They don't even recognise their own name.
It's a real rocket scientist cat that can do that.
They actually come when you make noises that indicate food is being
served.

I have 5 cats. If I yell one of their names, that one and that one
only
will run out of the cat flap. Mind you, maybe it realises it's the
one
that was misbehaving.

Yep, nothing to do with its name, everything to do with
your tone of voice and what it knows its been up to.

You can prove that trivially any time by
shouting YOU ****ER instead of its name.

Dogs are just as stupid, they don't come to their owner if they don't
feel
like it.

Depends on the dogs. You'll never get cats to respond
to the commands of their owners like the best of the
herding dogs do. They don't ever ignore their owners.

Another stupid thing half my cats do is: they won't eat a quarter full
bowl of meat. They just stare at it and whine at me as though it must be
full.

You certainly have weird cats. Never had a cat that operated like that
either.
Neither do the neighbours cats I used to feed while they were away for the
winter.