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Hi all! How is your Tuesday?

It is a super sunny day here in Bloubergstrand today.  When the wind blows today it is an icy cold wind, probably from the freezing cold Atlantic Ocean.  So not all good or all bad weather-wise  today!

The video clip with Sharon Osborne on it, was on Sky News today.  She is asking anyone with faith or who is thinking positively to think about her son Jack who has just been diagnosed with MS, she believes this will be helpful.  I believe her statement 100% . I feel that people's prayers and  thoughts had an amazing influence on my recovery in 1997.  Her tears on this clip were tears that you can feel even through a TV screen.  I know about 3 or 4 people with MS, as I posted to yesterday's blog postings, and they all thought an MS diagnosis was the end for them, thank GOD it wasn't, just a huge change in their life.

I find the information below interesting and I hope you might do too....?

Cat's understanding of language
Quote by Jean Marion, "I was reincarnated from a cat".

Cats learn sounds... the word food sounds a lot different than the word No!  They understand and learn to associate sounds with both the attitude that they are said with and the outcome.

If I say 'time for night night' every night, not only is he hearing the same thing every night, but he is sensing the change of clothes, lights turning off, computers shutting down, a routine that he knows well.

They do not understand speech.  They understand what the sounds lead to.

Just as they know to come running when they hear the cat food hitting the bowl, and hide when they hear the vacuum cleaner.  They learn routines and a particular timber in our voice.  Either loving, exasperated, baby tones, playful banter.

They are smart, just not that smart..

Dogs understanding of language


Sure, most dogs understand the basics --"fetch," "sit" and "stay." But if you have the motivation and patience, you will probably be able to teach your dog even more than 100 words. Stanley Coren, a psychologist who has performed a significant amount of research on the subject of dog intelligence, suggests that average trained dogs know about 160 words [source: Coren].
Some dogs even show a vocabulary as vast as a human toddler's.

So who is the smarter pet? Debatable!  Cats or dogs?


Unfortunately that is all from me for today!

Signing off for all my blogs for this Tuesday Afternoon.  Have a delightful day furth folks!

Ciao
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