Gosh! I sometimes wonder if my cat actually understands me?!?

hi schulzie! I do believe that animals are highly intelligent as well. And base on their reactions on our commands I believe they do understand us.

I don't know how, but our pets do understands us. I remember my dog few years back, whenever our family goes out, we tell her to stay on the same spot and guard the house. If someone gets near the house, bark until that person is away from the house. When we got home, she's still on the same spot guarding the house, wagging her tail and seems so happy that we are back :D

I think they understand! My dog used to talk snotty to me when I would chew him out! Then I would say..are you being snotty to mom and he would bark! LOL....they understand alot more then they are given credit for!

I think he does , my cat is the same whenever I am sitting in our special living room cheer he always lye on his side, if he see me coming towards him he will move over . I miss having a cat at home .

I do think that cats and dogs can understand us to a degree. I am thinking that they learn different commands or gestures and then they do it based on past experience.

Sounds like he can. I think that pets can understand the meaning of certain terms that they hear on regular basis. My little dog understands when I say..let the mama get up. Or do you want to go to bed with the mama? She understands outside and go go for a ride too..LOL. I think that although cats are more independent pets..they have just as much potential to understand as dogs do..they just choose more about when and what they understand.

I think our pets understand far more than we give them credit for.

I think animals are pretty smart when they're taught. I talked to my 'gang' all the time and it seems that they pick up on the cues on different things over time. What I mean by gang, well, since my mom passed away just a few weeks ago, I've taken in her 5 cats and 2 dogs, I now have 17 cats and 6 dogs. I have a freaking ZOO! So to answer your question, does your cat understand you? Yes they do but not all the time, just what they've learned by the way of spoken language or your body language

When you live with a pet dog or cat for a long time, they become accustomed to your tone of voice and your body language. Also your daily habits become familiar to them. They don't need to understand the language. They're reading body language, tone of voice and context.

i think our pets do know what we are saying. my pets all seem to understand me except for the new one but shes um.. special..

Of course, he understands you. I know that my cats understand what I am saying at least as well as a young human child would. I also know that one of my late dogs knew "left" and "right"; she routinely demonstrated this knowledge.