Transcription A Bluesky post from "Slippy", @damnslippy.slippy.me, with a profile picture of a woman with short, purple hair holding a knife: Sincerely delighted to discover, 45 minutes into this nearly-wordless three-hour documentary about French monks who take vows of silence, that among the reasons they \\\can\\\ talk is "to make sure the monastery cats know when it's mealtime by making little kitty-calling noises at them." :::
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They do it for themselves, not the cats. The cats know when it’s mealtime, unless mealtime happens at a new random time every day.
Do something your cat enjoys at a specific time every day for a couple days, and you’ve got yourself a furry alarm clock that will make sure to remind you of the time if you forget.
Not just cats. That’s the Pavlovian response. Even YOU and I can be similarly trained.
I accidently train myself to eat snacks at specific times of day like that all the time. Then I realise what I did and it’s too late.



