What words does your cat know?

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I have had cats since age 7, but with my current two I've only just picked up on the number of words they know and respond to!
Are they super intelligent (as I suspect 😊) or do your cats know some words too?

Here's the list of what they know:

• their own name
• the other cat's name
• Cat (they know we're talking about them)
• food
• 'feed the cats' - they go crazy when they hear that
• out/outside- they walk straight to the door when they hear that
• Toy - my cat puts her paw on her toy when she hears that
• Bed - just found that one out yesterday

I suppose it's similar to dogs knowing words - but cats are a lot less responsive. Still I'm really impressed by them!

Dreamies

That is all

@0psiedasiy our other cat is Arabic.

He isn't a lap cat but the only thing he knows is the sound of the food cupboard door.

Other than that, he does as he pleases.

Their name
The other cat's name
No
Don't do that (big cat obeys as a rule - the kitten doesn't)
Out
Go and play
Naughty
Mum's home
Right
Come on
Mummy loves you
Teatime
Dreamies
Kissy kissy
Take it away
Drop it
Fetch (the kitten)
Come here you murdering little sods
Say hello

Strangely my kitten seemed to know her name as soon as I decided it. She just wags her tail in annoyance and glares at me now for the most part (3yo and tiny, well unless a dreamie packet gets rustled).

Occasionally she will be affectionate and give me a friendly chomp on the nose. I live for those lol.

Yes! And a sort of silent breathy roar

If I say "do you want some food?" he comes running in to the kitchen. If I say "are you tired?" he looks very sleepy and closes his eyes. If I say his name he looks round.

Dreamies

Stop Scratching My Carpet You Little Git ( at 5am , his witching hour ) He gives no shits .

We have Siamese they know everything , names ,different toys , different foods , the vets name , all our names , room names - it’s literally like living with cat shaped dogs .

Yes @Floralnomad I've heard Siamese are supposed to be really intelligent!

All that's so cute @SallyWD - that's kind of how we found out our cat knew the word for bed - specifically my DD's bed. We were talking about her bed to each other in the living room- then he looked round, yawned and stretched then went straight up to it!!

Mine just knows "snackies" and "din dins". But she has a sixth sense for when I'm getting the spot on flea/wormer out....

She communicates a lot more to me than the other way around. She has at least 9 different meows which express very different things. When she was first here (I fostered her and her kittens from a local charity) she had a specific kitten meow. Now she has "feed me", "I'm bringing you something", "oh no, not the cat carrier", "why is it raining?", "help", "PUT ME DOWN", "I'm stuck" and "I'm hurt" (only heard that one once and it was our one and only emergency vet trip when she got a plant lodged inside her eye).

I'm not convinced she knows her own name but we adopted her from the streets when she was 2 so I think her name just came a bit late in life!

One of mine has to be telepathic.. I don't even look at her medicine bottle, but just think I must give it to her (at different times of day).. and she's gone.

I can't believe I'm going to admit to this but Harry knew 'wee wee'. As in 'are you coming wee wee with mummy?' Regardless of what he was doing he would stop and follow me to the bathroom and sit with me. That's of course if he hadn't already gone in there to sit and wait for me!

I don't know how I've managed to go to the bathroom without him to remind me!

If I call one Hello You they know I don't know which one I;m talking to .
In my defence they are identical . If they slope in I'm looking to see they are not bearing "gifts" not which cat ,

Out get thinks I have a really smart cat, we went in the other day and she said sit on two separate occasions and old cat did, she said he was really well trained, I said it was a fluke he never does anything I say

Cats know ALL the words - they just ignore most of them

Mine know their own names and nicknames. I think. They kind of tell me what they want and I confirm it, so idk if they know the actual words for 'out' and 'hungry'.
They know I think when I whisper in their ears that they're a good boy etc as they purr like mad.
I think it's more the tone of voice though.
They know 'not for babies' said sternly means get off or go away.

We 'own' two cats. One is very elderly now but turned up in our garden 10 years ago, moved in and never left. The other is a huge 7.8 kg panther who was a 'foster fail' who came to us as a terrified little feral kitten with his brother and is now the kindest, most gentle boy in the world. We still foster and because we predominantly take in kittens and mums from outside and boys who need neutering and have roamed the streets we get through a lot of chicken trying to tame them. So they know the word chicken- it is like feeding time at the zoo. Also ours know their names and the fosters do too- although these will usually be changed when adopted