Animals aren't stupid, they just don't have everything humans do. They can understand intent sometimes. The real unusual thing is how the cat cared. Most would probably understand the assignment, but choose to see how far things would go.

I don't know if it's a fluke or what, but one time I decided to bake cookies so I started the oven and walked away in typical silly goose fashion. I got distracted upstairs and my cat barged in my office screaming and acting unusually agitated. So I followed her, she led me to the kitchen where the oven has been preheating for a good 45 minutes.

She got extra dreamies this day.

Talk to animals like they're not inferior dipshits and you find out how much you've been making them into them.

We woke up to a burst pipe blasting hot water out in our flat once.

Only reason we woke up was thanks to our beautiful orange cat yelling at us practically in plain English

😀 this is awesome. Animals know when things are out of the ordinary. On occasion my dog will stare back at our front door and refuse to leave for the walk. It usually means I forgot something inside.

They have a vocabulary and knowledge of the environment... Just not a large vocab.

You can get talking buttons and train pets to develop a shared kind of understanding of language and express wants/needs.

Here's a podcast of someone's experience:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHdnqpOFShc