Meerkat Prompts: One Thing for my Pet to Understand
If you could make your pet understand one thing, what would it be?
This is an intriguing and challenging prompt. There are lots of things I wish my cat, Castiel, would understand. I’d like him to grasp the concept that mewling at me to feed him when I am already emptying a sachet of food into his bowl is entirely redundant. I’d love for him to comprehend that as much as my wife and I love him, sitting on us at 1am whilst purring like a freight train is not acceptable behaviour. There’s his tendency to want to go outside to fight foxes or other cats; I would sorely like him to know this is not a good idea.
Perhaps the biggest thing I’d like him to know is that sitting outside our bedroom door, loudly licking himself at 3am, is an absolute no-no. He doesn’t realise how noisy his baths actually are.