>I very much doubt cats understand the concept of death and can "grieve," You're putting a lot of weight with the philosophical definitions of grieve and death

>I very much doubt cats understand the concept of death and can "grieve," You're putting a lot of weight with the philosophical definitions of grieve and death for a cat. Yeah, it's probably not the same understanding as a human, as a social animal it's probably not the no understanding at all either. The article is like "cats react to death like they understand what it is" and you're ambiguously insinuating that they don't without defining your terms or actually adding any substance. "Cats might understand death but not the same way I do" is both obvious and probable and not particularly interesting.