What's a cat's mental age?

[felinelucky]

What would you say a cat's mental age is? I wonder how good their memories are? How much do they understand? What do you reckon?

Cheddar thinks she's a human baby aged about 8 moths I think. She does understand what I say to her. And she comes when called.
Magic is probably around 4 going on 14. She definitely does understand as well. If I ask her to go and find Cheddar she does. My sister doesn't believe me. But it has been independently witnessed!

Mine are like v small children in that they'll find a game they like and you have to repeat it 900 times. And the big one definitely understands 'fetch!'

Kloppy confuses me, sometimes he's a big doofus kitten and yet at other times he looks like a wise old man. I'm sure he's been on this earth before!

Mines forever a teenage boy - doesn’t listen to me, moody, comes home late, sleeps all morning , loud voice, always starving 😂

An adult cat? About 48.

Too old for this shit but not adverse to a mad fifteen minutes before collapsing on the sofa for a three hour nap followed by snacks.

Before the age of about 7? About 4 and a half. Everything is awesome and exciting and incredibly messy. And when it goes quiet, you know you have to go and find what they're up to now.

@TweeterandtheMonkeyman

Mines forever a teenage boy - doesn’t listen to me, moody, comes home late, sleeps all morning , loud voice, always starving 😂

That describes AlfonsoCat perfectly, except that you forgot to mention the claws.

Teenage girl here. Strops and sulks, spends ages preening herself, always has to have the last word.

I'd say she understands probably a dozen phrases/ commands but needs longer to process spoken language than a dog or child would (only logical when you consider how tiny her brain is in comparison).

Mine are typical small children, in and out of my office all day going 'Muuuuum, we're booooored'. I explain I specifically got two of them so they could entertain each other, but nope.

I think ours was middle aged, general intolerance of noise unless he was making it.

I do miss him when dh is playing guitar through the amplifier for 3hrs. I sit there thinking the cat wouldn’t have put up with this. He’d go down and serve a feline cease and desist notice after 10 minutes.