Yea, seriously. My cat is 15 and she is pretty intelligent. She knows about a dozen verbal commands and I’ve noticed over the years will perk up or come out of

Yea, seriously. My cat is 15 and she is pretty intelligent. She knows about a dozen verbal commands and I’ve noticed over the years will perk up or come out of nowhere when certain words are used. She also will respond and (usually) come when you call out her name like a dog. It did take a very long time though, like 5-7 years and a lot of trust established to get to this point, but I think it’s been fairly obvious for a long time now that cats are very habituated to humans and human habits, maybe even as much as dogs. One of the difficulties for science when studying cats is they are so aloof and take time to build trust, that observing these behaviors in a study setting is pretty hard. Even mine will totally understand what I’m saying (her ears will perk up and twitch) but she’ll ignore me sometimes.