Things your pets know

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- nothing good comes from the carrying cases - hide immediately. Get your claws out

- Luggag means you are abandoning me - sit in luggage, give sad eyes.
 
Luggage= abandonment and she sits in my suite case

iPod = walk and game of fetch

Garbage truck = anti-Christ it's the only vehicle she parks at

Taking off watch = shower - where she proceeds to jump wildly at the shower door
 
Putting on running shoes - run/walk

turning off the lamp in living room at night - bed time, go the to the back door to be let out to take the last leak of the day

Getting out the pasta strainer - pasta is being made, come to the kitchen for samples (for some odd reason our dogs and cats love pasta)
 
Putting the food dish inside the food bin

"OH MY GOSH WE'RE GOING ON A TRIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I SHOULD GET REALLY EXCITED AND BOUNCE OFF THE KITCHEN DOOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

and regarding the turning off the lamp/tv in the living room, either click will awaken my dog from the sleep of the dead and have him moving down the hall. hell, anytime the tv clicks off, he's up and ready to go.
 
Thats funny, my dog sits in the suitcase and gives the sad eyes too....

And if we havent finished packing, she sleeps in the suitcase all night.
 
Dressy clothes + car keys = no reason to move
Shorts and T-shirt + car keys = potential for ride, get up and act excited

My dog can hear the bread wrapper being opened from any location in the house and will look as hungry as possible in an attempt to score the heel, which for the life of him he cannot understand why us humans would just throw away.

Kids in trouble - good time to be in a different room, looking small and obediant
 
Refrigerators and Pantries are for learning how to open them up and poaching the food inside. Must check daily to ensure the human secured the baby locks on them.

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My buddy has some land in SW Travis county. When I take my dog out there, about 3 miles from his place, my dog will recognize the area and start barking non-stop until she is let out at our destination.
 
My cats can be in the far back rooms of my house and yet still KNOW about two seconds before my hand reaches the can of tuna fish that I am on my way to get it. It's like a sixth sense. I won't see them for hours but they are THERE when I even THINK about tuna fish.
 
Iron = Leaving for night, sit on Ironed shirt when I lay it on my bed.

My dog knows exactly when she should wake up.
She stays asleep until I get out of the shower and begin to get dressed.
The entire time I am in the shower she is still sleeping, then right when I walk in the room she gets up.
 
Go to the drawer where I keep my smokes=run to the back door.
Put on my belt in the morning=duck head and look as sad as possible because it's time to go in the kennel for the next 8 hours.
We sit down at the table to eat dinner=time to eat as well. (This is actually almost the only time he'll eat.)
Mommy lays down to read a book=walk circles on her chest in front of the book until she gives up and puts it down.
 
When mom puts on her shoes, something exciting is about to happen.

They also know by the way I move in the bed if I'm getting up or just turning over. Sometimes they ignore it and keep sleeping, but when I move in some particular way they jump up and start whining all excited.
 
I was about to type exactly what Hornius Emeritus entered-if Bluto the cat is asleep on top of the bathroom storage chest, which under ordinary circumstances he will meow to get you to climb up there to help him down, and you tiptoe to the pantry in the kitchen and get a can of tuna, without opening it-there will be a thud and the sound of a veritable cat stampede to get to the kitchen counter, followed by plaintive sounds of imminent starvation and cat abuse unless a bite of the tuna finds it way to the cat bowl right away, and of course the ensuing ritual of tuna can licking.
 
When we say "light" or spell it our, our dog knows we are talking about the laser light that he loves to chase and stares intently at the table where we keep the laser for the next hour.

If I wake up with my dad at 5:30 in the morning, that means we are going to go for a walk and then bounces off the walls.

If we say "bed" at night he gets up, gets his favorite toy, and follows whoever said bed into their bedroom and gets on the bed.

As a side not, I am teaching my dog "grovel" to where he'll put his head at my feet and so far, it's working very well.
 
lobotomy = walk

Now the story. Our smart-*** dog learned the word "walk" when she was very small. She goes apeshit when she hears that word. So, we then had to start spelling it; well, she learned that too.

One day we were asking her, "Ella, do you want to go on a... stroll?" *cocks head to one side* "Do you want to go... swimming?" *cocks head to the other side* "Do you want a... lobotomy?" *goes apeshit* Now, we give her a lobotomy daily.
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Oh, she also knows "go" mean walk too, so we have to be careful using that word as well.
 
The word "treat" and he runs to the cabinet where we keep them, sometimes running into it. We have tried to full him with other words like "sweet" or "feet", and he doesn't budge.
Also, I don't really have to set my alarm anymore. It used to always go off at 6:00 and I would get up and make him get up so I could take him out for the morning drainage. Now, at exactly 6:05 EVERY morning, I hear "plop" as he jumps down onto the floor (I'm a very light sleeper) and I look up just in time to see him walking out of the room to head to the back door.
 
Can opener = tuna handout. My two cats can be upstairs fast asleep; if I start the can opener, they will be sitting there waiting for their handout before the can opener is off.

TV clicks off = bedtime.

rattle = cat treats.

suitcase = master going on a trip. Sit on top of case; maybe we can prevent him from leaving.

Cat carrier = trip to vet. Hide immediately!

...and they call them "dumb animals!"

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Anything wrapped in aluminum foil = chicken!

Now actually, it could be leftover pizza, cake, a tomato, but according to the cat, it must be chicken!
 
My dogs know when I'm going to the kitchen to get something to eat and when I'm going there for something else.
 
Mail Key- one of my four dogs knows the sound of that and knows it is time to go out and get the mail. The other three sit around like DUH....
 
We taught our dog to ring a small bell hanging from our back door when he needed to go outside to do his business. Now, he rings the bell when he needs to go outside to do his business, when he's hungry, when he wants to go outside and play, when he's bored, when he's mad at us, when he's excited, when he wants attention, etc. You get the idea.

And, when he rings it, if we don't hup to immediately, he rings it again and again, with more gusto each time. I'm not sure who trained who...
 
Apparently, my 2 cats know the sound of the engine of my truck or they have some sort of 6th sense of when I'm coming home because they walk up to my gate at my house when I pull into the driveway.
 
Car is now vehicle, metal moving box or anything but car.

Ride is now jaunt, venture, meander or anything but ride.

Leash is guiding chain, mesh, black webbed thing on door or anything but Leash.

Food or eat is vittles, grub, meager portions or, well, you get the idea.

I cannot spell most things around her, she knows them. She is like the Borg in that she assimilates to the new word quickly. I cannot say ride or any of those words even when I am on the phone without it being noticed.

This dog works me over. She is so fun.
 
All three of my family's cats can be in hiding, no where to be found, but as soon as someone rattles the treat bag all of a sudden the siamese triplets appear ready for their treats.
 
ONa related note I took the cats to the V-E-T yesterday and the 13 year old Tabby has gained another pound.

The days of the open food bowl are officially over.

She now gets diet food and she gets 5/8 of a cup a DAY.

Her cries of pure anguish over the bowl that has never ever been empty for long break my heart.
 
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