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From: mikel@codas.UUCP (Mikel Manitius)
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Subject: Re: The six senses of a cat
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Date: Thu, 3-Oct-85 20:42:05 EDT
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> -- This is a serious posting --
> 
> I am very interested in how other mammals' perception of the world
> differ from ours. In particular, that of the cat, since I have one whose
> behavior never ceases to amaze me. I read in net.bizarre that cats are
> deaf and partly blind - in the sense that they cannot hear and that they
> cannot see stationary things.  Net.bizarre posters are not the most
> reliable source of scientific authority, as we all know. I am posting
> in net.pets to ask for more credible opinions. 
> 
> P.S. This may sound utterly stupid - but, does any one knows if cats
> communicate, besides body-language, among themselves? 
> -- 
> So there ...

Cats are not deaf! As a matter of fact, they can hear better than humans,
I remember many years ago, when I lived with my parents at home, in an
appartament complex, my cat could tell when my father was entering the
lobby, she would run up to the front door and put her paws on it, seconds
later, my father would enter, there was no way she could smell or see him
from the appartament.

I can venture to say that cat's do communicate, at least on a low level,
haven't you ever heard the mating moew of a male cat in an alley before?
and the female is attracted (visa versa, only works on males for humans, sigh)
I also had certain calls for my cat to tell her when to come eat, and
she would come running, she was also trained to the word "fish" (in another
language actually), it was the most powerfull, because usually when we would
say fish, she would get a smelt (small raw fish), I could always get her
attention with this.

Anyone who thinks cats are blind, is off their rocker on my book. However
cats and dogs are known to only see black and white.

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