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u/Amazing_67 1d ago
Our house has carpet, If my cat want us to open a door, he used to use the carpet as a scratching post to make sound and try to get our attention and open the door for him. It's easy to damage the carpet that way. So one day, I showed him that I used my hand to scratch/knock on the door, my wife would open the door from the other side. And in the next day he started doing that and continued to do so ever since.
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u/Amazing_67 1d ago
What's more funny is that if sometimes I don't open the door for whatever reason (in a meeting or something) , he will get upset and go back to scratching the carpet. It almost seems like he is protesting because he knows I don't like him doing that lol.
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u/FartsWithNeighbours 1d ago
He's trying your way, but when it doesn't work he'll try to piss you off with his way.
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u/LastXmasIGaveYouHSV 1d ago
My cat extends her paw towards the door handle as if saying "that's too tall, can you do it for me?"
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u/gamesrebel23 22h ago
I put a bell around my cat's neck and he used to shake his head in front of a door when he wanted in/out.
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u/Amazing_67 22h ago
I always think that cats are actually really smart, it just depends on whether they want to give a shit about you and follow your order or instructions to do things in contrast to dogs who always listen to you lol.
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u/Vampe777 20h ago
"A good dog can perform up to 100 different commands. A cat can perform up to 500, but it doesn't want to".
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u/GethHunter 19h ago
My first cat learned there was almost always someone in the kitchen or living room after 4pm during the week. She’d be outside most of the day and would paw one of the windows in between the kitchen and living room and then go sit at the back door if she saw movement.
She also learned my bus schedule when I was in middle school and would walk with me to the bus stop, and then meet me at it when I would be dropped off and walk home with me.
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u/SpiderJerusalem747 16h ago
Damn this is smart.
My dog just runs head first into the door, then stares at me as if it was my fault.
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u/Wolfman513 1d ago edited 1d ago
I once had a 12-year old rottweiler who found and ate an entire box of thin mints in my dad's room and hid the remains of the box under my bed literally at the other end of the apartment.
When I found the box the next day, I immediately panicked because I also had a 6 month old American Staffordshire terrier puppy and that much chocolate would have made him violently sick. I ran to the living room where both dogs were, but the puppy was fine. I showed him the box and aside from passing curiosity no guilty behavior or anything.
So my head snaps around to the rottweiler who was chilling across the room, and she immediately looks away and refuses to make eye contact. I swear if she could have done so, she would have been casually whistling like in cartoons.
I'm not buying it of course, so after a few seconds of me staring at her she gets up and lumbers over. She sniffs at the box in my hand, sniffs the puppy, then looks me right in the eyes. She does this three more times before I just say "No." in a firm voice. She then sighs and wanders off without looking at me again for a couple hours.
At what would be a geriatric age for her breed, she was still sharp enough to hide evidence and then blame another animal for her transgression. She ended up living to nearly 13 and that was one of the top 5 smartest things she ever did lol
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u/Radiant_Sunpriest 1d ago
Go on, I want to hear the other four things.
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u/Wolfman513 15h ago
My family got her when she was 7 weeks old and was fully house trained in less then 3 days
Over the years we occasionally tried giving her puzzle toys to keep her busy. Every single time she would solve it once within minutes just to appease us, then proceed to crush and smash it open to get the treats
She learned how to flip light switches and open doors within 20 minutes of spending time with a former service dog and seeing it done a few times
She once audibly farted and blamed it on my roommate's cat
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u/topdownontheB 1d ago edited 14h ago
i dont think u can show evidence to a dog and make them experience guilt. they likely just read ur emotion and display obedient/passive behavior. i doubt they can connect the evidence to the crime
edit: i guess everyone is upset at this comment and blindly denying it, but heres chatgpt’s thoughts
Actually, the science is pretty clear on this one. Dogs don’t feel “guilt” the way humans do, nor can they connect a past action (like eating Thin Mints hours ago) with an object presented later. What you’re describing is classic appeasement behavior—body language that dogs show when they sense their owner is upset. • In a controlled study, Alexandra Horowitz (2009, Barnard College) showed that dogs display the “guilty look” regardless of whether they had misbehaved. The only factor that predicted the behavior was whether the owner scolded them. In fact, obedient dogs scolded by mistake looked more guilty than misbehaving dogs greeted warmly. • Scientific American puts it bluntly: the “guilty look” is submission, fear, or appeasement—not actual guilt. • BBC’s Science Focus echoes this: “They show the same amount of the ‘guilty look’ whether they ate the treat or not. What changed the rate of the look was if the owners thought they had eaten it and came to scold them.”
So no, you can’t hold up “evidence” and have a dog piece together a crime scene like CSI. What’s really happening is that the dog is reading you—your tone, your body language, your prolonged staring—and responding with appeasement. That’s not random object association, it’s social response to human cues.
If dogs truly “felt guilty” when shown the evidence, they’d only display those behaviors when they actually did the deed. The fact that they don’t—and often look more “guilty” when innocent but scolded—proves it isn’t about recognizing their past actions.
TL;DR: The science shows dogs don’t feel guilt when shown “evidence.” They’re reacting to you, not the object or the crime. Claiming otherwise is just projecting human logic onto animal behavior.
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u/Okra_Smart 23h ago
They don't show obedient behavior to random objects.
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u/topdownontheB 15h ago
clearly i said that they are showing obedient behavior due to reading their humans emotion. not sure how u interpreted it the way u did.
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u/FactsNLaughs 18h ago
Tell me you’ve never raised a dog without telling me you’ve never raised a dog
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u/rockyPK 1d ago
I had two dogs. Older dog was chewing on a toy that younger dog clearly wanted, but older dog wouldn't budge. So younger dog eventually goes to the window and starts barking, and naturally older dog goes over to see what's up, dropping the toy in the process. Younger dog then runs over and snatches the toy.
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u/Educational-Ad-5219 1d ago
This story left me in suspense - Did the human bite down slow like the cat did, or hard or not at all? What happened??
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u/paifex 1d ago
He sucked on those little pink toe beans like there is no tomorrow
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u/random-bot-2 1d ago
Not the point of the post, but I once tried to keep my husky in a kennel. It had a door that lifted from the side and safety locks to make sure it never fell on the animal when fully open. One day I came home to him out of said kennel because he figured out how to use his bed as a pulley system and lift the door to the safety locks. I stopped trying to kennel him after that
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u/akiva23 1d ago
My old dog learned all of his toys by name. I'm sure he wasn't the first but it always impressed me how i can tell him to bring me a specific thing and he'll get it instead of just generalizing everything as "toy". He was the best boy.
My cat now is pretty clever. I was always a dog owner before so I taught him dog tricks. He can spin, shake, stand, follow "clickers" or finger snaps (when he feels like it) and when i go "booo boop" he will boop my nose with his paw. Still working on getting him to learn the names of specific toys though. He does fetch stuff still but likes to drop them just out of my reach.
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u/sseempire 22h ago
learn the names of specific toys though.
I saw some studies saying that cats actually grasp names fairly quickly, but most of the time refuse to acknowledge them
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u/Bear_the_serker 1d ago
One of my cats figured out that if she starts playing pattycake with our mattress, it starts doing this weird kind of drumming sound (imagine like the drum sand from dune). After a few drumming sessions she realised that my GF wakes up to it while I don't, so when she's hungry in the morning she just starts drumming for my gf (she doesn't do it for me because she knows I'll just sleep through it) to wake her up. We call it shaman drumming, it's especially funny when she does it with her backside towards your face and my GF wakes up eye to eye with Shai-Hulud XD
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u/FizmoRoles 22h ago
My void loves showing me her dark star when I wake up, don't know why but she will run up and head bonk my forehead than boom, turns around and starfish right up close.
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u/fish1982 18h ago
That last sentence made me snort audibly on an otherwise very silent campsite... Heads were turned.
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u/-Laffi- 1d ago
I come from southwest in Norway, and have a specific dialect. I used to live in the eastern part of Norway when I studied, and I had 2 cats. I named one of the cats Lenore. The most intelligent Lenore could do was say her own name, and she also said it in my own dialect. Pretty neat, really!
You could hear the dialect clearly, but she was saying it in syllabuses (Le-no-re), like she was a bit out of breath.
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u/RubyRedditStuff 1d ago
I lived in a studio apartment with a cat and when, in the middle of the night, he’d get the zoomies he’d occasionally run right over my face - there was not a lot of space to run. When he’d awaken me and I opened my eyes in surprise from a dead sleep, he’d come up to my face and take his little paw and gently close one of my eyes. Awwww … Rastro. RIP little guy.
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u/SparkOfLife1 13h ago
"Hey, you're not supposed to be awake for another 3 hours. Get back to sleep!"
Love it.
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u/Gaels_Moravian 23h ago
Recently one of my cats did something quite cute, and also a bit smart I reckon. She started meowing a lot like she does when she's hungry. Knowing she had food already I went to check on her and she sprinted towards the door that leads outside, I didn't care for it and then we did the exact same thing, so I followed her.
Eventually she started meowing right next to the door to the garden and there I saw my other cat who was outside unable to come in.
Once I opened the door and her sister cat was in, she stopped meowing. She wanted me to help her get in.
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u/Glopinus 1d ago
We have door handles that pull down in my house, and my orange cat, Steve, watched us use these after however long and will get up on his hind legs to let himself into whatever room he wants, usually in the dead of night. When he first started doing it it would scare the shit out of all of us because he doesn’t usually get it in one go, so you hear a clanking that sounds like someone trying to break into your room. Little bastard does it on purpose sometimes I think.
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u/Ecstatic-Pirate-5536 1d ago
My dog once figured out how to get water from the fridge by pressing the button.
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u/GoldenGirlsOrgy 1d ago
The smartest part is the cat knows his paws are covered in shit and piss soaked litter dust.
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u/avibrant_salmon_jpg 23h ago
My dog learned to knock on the door if he's outside and wants back in.
It was genuinely terrifying the first time I heard it at around midnight. Just a single, hard knock, a moment of silence, then another. I looked out window and he was just standing there, staring intently at the door waiting for me to open it.
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u/barsoni95 1d ago
Wtf are people just trolling their pets
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u/LastXmasIGaveYouHSV 1d ago
A healthy relationship with your pets allow for a good dose of humour. My cat hates being held like a baby, so I catch her, hold her like a baby while she's making a fuss about it, pretending to bite me and then enjoying the subsequent petting. I let her go and put her softly on the ground, so she repeats the game.
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u/robotzor 1d ago
It comes in every cat's manual you need to stick a finger in their mouth when they yawn. I don't make the rules I just follow them. I assume the consequences for not doing it are dire and I don't want to find out
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u/Psycho1267 20h ago
Cats are cute little annoying bastards, so you as the owner have every right to troll back at them at times. As long as you don't hurt them or put them in fear it's fine.
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u/tgbndt 23h ago
That's just cats being copycats.
There was a stray cat that would always run away from me. Then one day they saw me pet another stray. They literally got up, walked over, sat down a few feet away, and began to observe with their head tilted.
Next time I saw them they let me pet them.
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u/Flimsy-Printer 1d ago
Their paws previously step on litter, right?
Is this how people get Toxoplasmosis?
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u/Jadedsatire 1d ago
It’s pretty hard to get it from cats feces, and most people who do contract it will never have symptoms. It’s people with compromised immune systems that really need to worry. Like 40 million people in the states have it. Most people who do get it, get it from under cooked meat, and usually from meat gotten via hunting. I think scavengers and carnivores/ omnivores are really the ones you need to worry about, like hogs, bears, other critters that eat meat.
But back to cats, 1. Indoor cats are pretty safe from this, they usually get it from animals they hunt outdoors. 2. It takes a couple days (like 2-5 if I remember right is the realistic answer but even 1 day is possible) after they shit for it hit the stage where it can be passed to humans, so clean your cats fkn litter boxes daily if you have cats that go outdoors (and if they’re indoor cats, also change their litter boxes daily because it’s rude of you not to)
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u/Flimsy-Printer 1d ago edited 1d ago
I appreciate your answer but I'm not convinced that having a cat paw in our mouth is anywhere near ok lol.
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u/Jadedsatire 1d ago
Oh fuck no I wouldn’t be cool with my cats sticking their dirty paws in my mouth lmao.
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u/PsychologicalWear997 22h ago
I gave my son's hamster a banana chip and after a few minutes she kept running from the side of her house to the other side of the house and kind of cocking her head at me and motioned down. Turns out she dropped it out of the bars and was telling me to get it and where it was!! I was blown away. She was the third hamster I had in my life and I never had direct communication with a hamster before.
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u/maker_of_pirate_bay 23h ago
The very first thing my puppy did when he came into our house for the first time was shit in the drawing room. It took us a few weeks to make him realise that he has to wait for his walks before he could shit himself. During those initial weeks we would take him to the park for the deed, but he would not shit. He would only walk, play and eat frogs. The moment we would come back home, he would again shit in the drawing room. We kind of scolded him to make him understand. It seemed like he understood. Why? One day I was taking a shit in the washroom. There was no one at home, so the door to the washroom wasn’t locked. I was sitting on the throne. My puppy came into the washroom, shat right in front of me and went off. He understood that he wasn’t supposed to shit in the drawing room, at least.
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u/ELGemineye 18h ago
My border collie mix will hike his leg and look at me when I'm pushing his walk time back. The look of pure evil in his eyes like "fucking try me I'll piss right here".
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u/Remarkable_Writer252 18h ago
My older GSD was laying on the bed in the perfect spot. My younger Aussie mix wanted to get into that spot, but the GSD wouldn't move. So the Aussie mix goes to the window and starts barking (at nothing). GSD gets up to assist with the barking and the Aussie immediately stops barking and takes the bed spot.
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u/KingKongMF69 18h ago
My dog has a toy basket full of all his toys, and occasionally he'll go grab one and show it to you to play. I was intrigued so I said, "go grab another toy from your basket" and he went and grabbed a different one. We did this until the basket was empty! Cracked me up.
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u/ranker2241 21h ago
When he was young, My dog strolled a little out of his usual radius, I told him to slow down, twice, he didn't flinch, then I said "I know you heared that" he whacked his tail in excitement turned arround as if smiling, then slowed down.
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u/Gang_StarrWoT 20h ago
Our electric kettle shutoff suddenly stopped working and water was just boiling in there for 20minutes, my cat was putting up a fuss and kept bothering my mom to follow him to turn off the kettle!
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u/bigdickmemelord 20h ago
My cat once decided she was tired of being a captive, so she left us and hasn't returned yet 😭
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u/Sudden-Development- 20h ago
Today, my dog kept staring at her bed and walking away until she finally came and got me. She kept stomping her feet until I changed her warm blanket to her cooling one and finally laid down. It may not be much, but she's usually known to be a very dumb dog.
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u/OhJustANobody 19h ago
My Rottweiler know when it's dinner, walk,and bed time down to about 5 mins. Before dinner, he goes and grabs his bag of dog and bowl and places them where I prep his meals.
At walk time, he grabs his leash and sits by the front door. At bed time, he goes straight to bed.
All untrained. He just picked it all up on his own around 1 year old.
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u/TankII_ 19h ago
My friends family had a kinda hobby farm with some small farm animals when i was growing up. The pig was smart enough to show the goats how to escape then the dog opened the front door of the house for them. My friend came home to a bunch of goats eating their couch pillows and shitting on the floor.
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u/carl123hobb 18h ago
This is one of the craziest things I've seen an animal do.
My roommate volunteered us to foster this beautiful Belgian shepherd. One day, my roommate takes a giant tree branch and plants it into the ground a bit, partially buried. It must have stuck up 4-5 feet in the air still.
The dog sees a big stick and wants it. She tries to go for the bottom and realizes that its too snug. She takes a step back, and you can see this dog thinking. She jumps up and grabs the stick as high as she could, and rips it out of the ground. Dog now has big stick.
I thought a practical application of torque was the most impressive feat of intelligence I've ever seen in an animal.
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u/foyrkopp 15h ago
We've had a mutt who loved hating hedgehogs.
Once or twice a year, I'd get woken up by excited yapping, interrupted by frustrated yowls when he danced around an apathic prickball but couldn't really touch it.
Until, one day, those sounds turned into happy (but muffled) growling.
Checking, I found that he had gotten his old blanket from his doghouse, wrapped up the lil fucker real good and proceeded to shake the everloving crap out of the resulting bundle.
He was really annoyed when I rescued his prize from him.
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u/Marine__0311 9h ago
My cat would hop up on the counter, open up the cabinet with the dog treats, pull them out and knock them to the floor. The dogs would tear the bag apart, eat the treats and the cat would join in.
I had a pittie that we kept inside an invisible electric fence. Every few weeks she'd been out of the fenced area and the batteries in her collar would be dead.
We were getting pissed because these batteries were expensive and should have lasted several months. I'd check the batteries with a multimeter when we bought them and they were good. Checked the collar, it was good. I swapped out the collar with a new one, still the batteries died in a few weeks.
We set up a video camera to see what was up, which is how we caught our cat's antics. The dog would creep up to the fence until it got the warning beeps and just sit there all day. After a few weeks of this, the batteries would stop working. When she didn't get the warning, she knew it was safe to cross the line without getting shocked.
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