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[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 84 points 2 months ago

Awww. What a cute pet that cat has.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Our youngest gets up with me every morning to go to work. Yells at me, trots into my office where she has her own blanket.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 39 points 2 months ago (1 children)

During COVID, my wife gained a supervisor; one of our's appointed himself to the job and sleep in a corner on her desk and complain loudly if she left the office during office hours. He was a fair supervisor, though, because he'd also get irate when she worked past 5.

Lost his job with the RTO policy, poor guy.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ours was convinced we were going to work today, she does not yet understand the concept of "Saturday" or "Sunday". Amazon should pay her. :)

[–] sxan@midwest.social 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How long has she been doing the job?

Ours is very good with time. I'm not sure he knows it's Saturday except we get up later; he's not thrown off by holidays, though.

However, he can tell time, in a way. He is overweight (it's a journey, ok‽‽), and when we put him on a diet he was regularly waking us up in the middle of the night, begging. So we got him an automatic feeder, to distance ourselves from being food providers. One day, my wife notices him sitting in front of the grandfather clock, staring at it... and a couple of minutes later it chimed and the food dispenser went off! He'd only do it around feeding times. I think he could kind of tell by how hungry he was, and he could tell where in the hour it was because of the different chimes on the quarter hours. So - my guess - is that based on how hungry he was and how long the chimes went, he could figure out that the food would go the next time it chimed. So about 10 minutes before feeding time he goes over and watches the clock. It's kind of amazing.

He doesn't do it as much anymore; I guess he's figure it'll go when it goes, but he absolutely stops and listens for the food dish, whatever he's doing, when the grandfather clock chimes the hour.

Maybe your's is still figuring out the pattern.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

She's only a year old so, yeah, still pretty green. LOL. She was very upset that I got up, skipped the office and left for an eye appointment. LOL.

[–] FearMeAndDecay@literature.cafe 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We talking about a cat or a kid here?

[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

one day, they'll make friends with a crow.

flesh this out - i really want to see the movie.

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Just like the end of toy story 3

[–] xspurnx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago

This could be the story of a nice children's book. A painted one (like Lucie et cie [Lucy and Company] by Marianne Dubuc). That'd be awesome for kids around 2-4.

I've never been much of a fan of children's books with photographs, but I guess that could work, too (see "Mein Esel Benjamin" [My donkey Benjamin] by Hans Limmer/Lennart Osbeck).

[–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

We all float down here.

[–] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago