• kat_angstrom@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    This is not a controversial take:

    Cats understand human language far better than most people give them credit for.

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      8 days ago

      That’s true but in my experience they have no concept of abstraction so a dog that they haven’t met yet wouldn’t mean anything to them. Once they know the dog they can easily learn its name but they need lived experience to associate with it.