Re: [pf] whistling at the phone brought the cat to comfort me.

What a sweet story, David. 

One of our dogs is also very attuned to the people emotions of her
parents (us) and can tell the difference between a crying sob and  a
cold sniffle or an onion-cutting one. 

Thanks for sharing that.

~ Molly

David MacClement wrote:
> 
> · About a half-hour ago, my daughter cell-phoned me asking if I could see
> the note she'd forgotten to take, with the address on it.
> 
> · No luck, in the places she suggested, so she said she'd work it out
> herself, and hung up.
> 
> · A couple of minutes later I found it by thinking where she would have
> gone (within the house) as she was getting ready. I can generally find
> things the others can't, by that plus consciously "tuning" my looking for
> whatever I'm looking for.
> 
> · I called her cell-phone, which is little and has no cover, and after
> about 8 rings it was "picked up", but all I could hear were the rubbing of
> cloth and her shoes hitting the sidewalk (she's in Auckland). I guessed the
> phone was in her shoulder-bag, so I started to whistle as loudly as I
> could, hoping she would hear. Something like whistling your dog to come to
> you, but as intense as possible (I've been whistling all my life). I went
> on for nearly 2 minutes, during which she started talking to the guy she
> was walking with.
> 
> · Near the end of that time, our cat came from the other, warm, end of the
> house, and rubbed against my legs, smiling up at me. After hanging up
> (about to send her a text message via MTN-SMS from this computer), I
> stroked the cat's head and neck and talked to him. Usually he will walk off
> in the direction he wants (any of) us to go, if he's been trying to get us
> to do something - we've trained him not to miaou unless on the far side of
> a door - but this time he just stayed. I don't believe _he_ wanted soothing
> (as he sometimes does when trying to calm down after a cat fight), so I
> assume he was trying to soothe _me_; interpreting the long series of loud
> whistles as a cry for help or company, maybe.
> 
> · I'm guessing this, since in the past he has done the same thing when my
> daughter has been singing - she could become a very good singer according
> to her singing teacher some years ago - and he does work quite hard at
> trying various ways to communicate with us. Even fairly abstract (for a
> cat) things like: "this is a good place to be; why are you leaving?". Or
> sometimes trying to herd the leaving person back into the house.
>   Note: "leaving", for us, can be to Wellington, Luzern Switzerland,
> Beijing China, or London England, for months. The cat certainly doesn't
> want it to keep happening.
> 
> (· At 11:55 14/4/2001 +1200, I wrote to PF, with title: [pf] intelligence -
> more-needed now than in the past {at:
> http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/pfvs/2001II/msg00283.html }, about the same
> cat becoming more intelligent as it explored its varied, interesting and
> even challenging environment. The above is some of our evidence.)
> 
> David.
> (David MacClement) davd@ihug.co.nz
> http://www.geocities.com/davd.geo/index.html#top

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