Dogs are actually able to think ahead much further than cats. My grandma speaks with her dog like a human child and it works surprisingly well. When I visited her she announced to the dog “He’s gonna walk you tomorrow morning” and there was barely any excitement as a reaction. The next morning though I got woken up by a cold snout attached to a now very giddy animal. There are lots of other stories like this one. But I’ve tried similar things with my cat to no avail. They can only focus on the current or very next activity. I’ve taught her to sit down and wait until I have time if she needs something but even that only works when she’s in a good mood and if it does her patience is still used up after 10 minutes.

I don’t know how well this holds up scientifically but I usually assume the intelligence of a 9 month old baby for cats and that of a 2 year old toddler for dogs. It’s served me well when training or otherwise reasoning with them.

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.

“Go to bed, you’ve got a big day tomorrow. By which I mean I’m gonna wake you up at 5am for no particular reason.”

He might have taken the face smashing a little too far

If you end up going for it I’d get two cats, ideally socialized ones from a shelter or previous owner. That way they’re not lonely while you’re gone and you can skip the (cute but much more involved) kitten stage.

Have you noticed that in each and every still image that exists of Trump you can always easily picture him on the shitter making the same face?

Allow me to demonstrate

If you lightly blow in their face they start sniffing your breath. They love that shit.

Oh that’s interesting. I gotta look them up. I can definitely imagine frustration being a part of it but Idk if that’s all there’s to it. I mean this is highly anecdotal and subjective but my cat just seems excited more than frustrated when I’m next to her. Maybe they find joy in sharing the frustration 😅

Being picked up. She lets me do it if I need to but only for a second before she starts wriggling and lamenting. Loves to lay on my stomach so it’s not that she doesn’t want me close but everything has to happen on her terms.

Ideally both

Hair having cat

What I like is that they’re low maintainance in general but you can still invest a lot of emotional labour if you want to have a closer bond. There’s so many levels of how much a cat trusts you. Never gets boring.

I feel like we’d get along

And they’re specifically interested in what we eat. At least all of mine have been. I actually do the same thing with groceries and also cooked meals 😄

Skill issue

Same tbh

I’ve had cats for most of my life and those are the pupils of a culprit.

Can’t blame the cat, could go for that too rn

Mine is like that with pets. Acts like she’s the most neglected animal on Earth when you get up after only giving her a 20 minute belly rub.