I made myself tuna salad. Made sure cats were sound asleep in the bedroom.

[applegrove]

Went to eat it in the den. 5 minutes later they are in the garbage and have knocked it over. Nothing gets by my posse. What wakes up your critters?

[Demovictory9]

1. rattling of plastic bags that sound like those small cat snack bags

can't have chips or anything in a bag that crinkles.

[Freddie]

33. Occasionally I need Tums in the middle of the night

Am immediately surrounded by cats. Apparently the Tums bottle sounds just like treats.

[Laffy Kat]

2. My kitteh has a hair and hair brush fetish.

She can be downstairs and sound asleep on the top of her cat tree and hear me brushing my hair in my upstairs bathroom. She comes running up stairs and in seconds is trying to jump on my shoulders. How oh how can she hear that? It sounds cute but it is annoying, especially when I'm in a hurry.

[Skittles]

3. open any door or window and my cat comes running

I keep having to throw out those freaking crane flies and it's a battle, doing that and keeping the cat inside

[CountAllVotes]

4. hahahaa!!

and then there is this one:

https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/976218329827299330

[True Blue American]

5. That is funny

My Son’s Lab has trained me. Meets me at the door,goes to the treats. If I ignore her,she quarrels at me.

[CountAllVotes]

6. One of mine starts meowing at you

and she doesn't stop until she gets the goods!

[True Blue American]

11. Do you wrap Christmas presents for them.

That is funny to watch. Heaven forbid anyone tries to help her.

Anyone ever train a bird? They are like children in their actions. And talk.for something so little they are so smart.

[CountAllVotes]

15. I call her "The Troublemaker"

and boy is that a good name for her.

Between all of the hissing at the tomcat that is rather jealous of her and her sad past, I give her a pass on her behavior.

I adopted her from the kill shelter up the road. She was in the "next day" room. She was very sick and she'd been there most of her life.

She was so happy when she was adopted, she ran around sniffing every square inch of the house for the first few months I had her. She will be 2 years old in early July.

She is a lovely short haired black cat with a white spot (aka a "locket" ) on her chest and spoiled rotten today!

[True Blue American]

18. What a great thing to do.

The Lab was a shelter Pup,too.

[CountAllVotes]

43. I adopted her 6 mos. after my other girl died

It was a tragic death. I thought I'd never get over it, that is how awful it was.

So, I went to the shelter that cold day in November 2016 to just have a little look. (ha!!). They had few cats or kittens at that time and what they had available were all black cats (as is she) and then there she was in the next day room with the white spot on her chest. She came right up to me and I said, "I'll take her!". And so I did with all of her problems.

Today she is quite healthy for the most part and no, she did not have feline herpes in the eyes nor was she doomed to need veterinarian care once a month for life. In fact, once I managed to get her together and stabilized, we haven't been near a vet since! She and the other two tomcats I have are all indoor cats so no worries about getting into fights or catching some illness.

The biggest fear I have is what will happen to them should I die? I guess I won't ever know. It worries me greatly however being I have come close to dying a few times in the last 10 years or so. However, we are in this world together and hopefully they will all be taken care of hopefully if this becomes the case.

I love my little Missy! My life would be incomplete without her!

[pnwmom]

16. That is called "consciousness of mind." The cat gives the human

credit for having a mind -- even though the human seems so darn dumb sometimes.

[CountAllVotes]

17. I feel sorry for the poor grey kitty

He just wants a bite to eat and his bowl is empty and he has to rely on some human that prefers to film him instead!

[kimbutgar]

40. Passive aggressive kitteh

[Rhiannon12866]

7. It has to be the tuna smell

If I make tuna fish, I immediately get an interested audience from any part of the house.

[applegrove]

8. Yes. When they did not respond to the can opener sound I was fooled

into thinking I was safe. It was the smell that wafted into the bedroom that woke them.

[Rhiannon12866]

9. I don't have an electric can opener, still use the hand crank kind

And the canned cat/dog food I get has pull tops now, so they never got used to hearing anything. But without even looking I just know that they're there, LOL. I divide up the tuna water and include some pieces of tuna, but it's the liquid they seem to be interested in. I don't do it often, but I could never get away without sharing.

[True Blue American]

13. On the subject of Tuna

Anyone tried the Line or Pole caught? Sustainable seas? It is great. Coasts a little more, but what a difference! Albacore has it,too.

[pnwmom]

10. Dogs are good sleepers. They bark plenty during the day but at night, in bed with us,

they sleep better than we do. Sometimes on their backs with their four paws up in the air.

Lucky dogs!

[True Blue American]

12. Who owns

That house?

[pnwmom]

14. They're very generous with the house, and everything else of theirs.

It took us a long time to get a dog because I thought they belonged inside and hubby thought they belonged in the yard.

I finally won, and we got an inside dog. Bit by bit that dog attached himself to my husband till the dog finally ended up in the bedroom, and then in the bed. Since then we've gotten two more, and I laugh to think I believed my husband when he talked about them belonging outside. He didn't know any better, because of his rural background. All he needed was one dog to change his mind.

(I don't think either of us, but especially my husband, were prepared for how much it would hurt to lose that first dog. That's the thing about letting them get that close.)

[CountAllVotes]

19. We get so attached to our four legged friends!

I know what you mean.

I always take it hard no matter why they have to leave.

It seems I always end up adopting another one!

My life seems pointless without my beloved cats, I'll admit it!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

20. The very first time I opened a can of tuna

after one of our cats came to us, she acted very interested. I didn't give her any of the tuna, and she never again paid attention to any cans being opened.

I was in part lucky, and in part a good trainer of my cats. We never gave them scraps. They got only dry food, and never begged for more. In later years I'd offer them bits of tuna or chicken and they were totally disinterested.

I'm currently without feline housemates, but I hope to have them again at some point in the future.

One nice thing about dry food was that I could always have their bowl filled, and so they never needed to wake me up to be fed.

[True Blue American]

24. You cant do that with Labs

They will eat as long as there is food in front of them!

Funny thing is dogs usually attach themselves to the one that teaches them.

Anyone else find that so?

[Ohiogal]

30. You are so correct about Labs

being non stop eating machines!

My Lab seems very attached to both me and my husband, but we're the ones who are around the most. She shows a lot of love to my adult sons, too. She loves everyone, really.

[True Blue American]

36. Yes,Labs are

Very loving dogs. But beware if they think one of their family is in danger.

We had a Beagle when the boys were small. Just do not come into his territory!

Or, you would go down the driveway with him hanging on your pant leg.

[Freddie]

34. My grandson spilled an entire bowl of (dry) Froot Loops

His mom yelled at him to clean it up. I said no, Lucy (black Lab) would take care of it. Indeed there were no Froot Loops on the floor in less than a minute.

[True Blue American]

37. You should have seen the Brown Lab

Last Thanksgiving when some one dropped a casserole! Took the whole family to hold her!

Fruit loops? Just snacks!

[CountAllVotes]

39. hahahaa!!

Fruit Loops = fussy dog!

[MFM008]

21. Me leaving room

Crinkling any sort of BAG.
Birds chirping.
😼😼😼😼😼

[CelticWinter]

22. for the dogs

its the sound of the treat bag, and the cats its the pop of the can opening. But it doesn't really matter, if you walk into the kitchen they all come running. You walk into the house from shopping and all of them are sniffing through the bags looking at you like "did you get me anything?"
Celtic

[True Blue American]

25. And they also know exactly where you hid that treat bag.

[CelticWinter]

26. of course

and the cats know where their can treats are, they hear the door open and its a stampede to the kitchen lol.

[Phentex]

23. opener the drawer in the fridge where I keep the cheese...

they get cheese once a month with medicine but the sound of opening that drawer will wake them from a dead sleep.

[Guilded Lilly]

27. Anything and everything! They both are sound magnets and hear

Things I never will, of course!
But then again they can be five feet from me, I call their name and they ignore me. (Heh)

[Ohiogal]

28. Opening the back door

makes my Lab Sophie come running every time, even if she appears to be sound asleep in the living room.

[tonyt53]

29. We have to rinse the can with Dawn before we toss it into the garbage.

Dog and cat both will knock over the trash can. Then they sit side by side and stare as we eat it.

[Glamrock]

31. We had to buy one with a lid that can't push down.

We got an electric one. Solved the problem. Plus when you wave your hand over it and it opens, you feel like a Jedi!

[LisaL]

32. My cats don't do any of that, they don't even seem to understand that human food is edible.

I can eat all the tuna salad I want.

[MissMillie]

35. pretty much any movement in or near the house

if I get up to go potty, the dogs growl at me.

We once had the cable company call to offer us a home security system. I told the telemarketer that we had the 16-legged version.

[True Blue American]

38. Funny!

[3catwoman3]

41. One of our cats goes nuts for arugula (what an elitist snob) and...

...spinach. Especially arugula. The crinkly sound of the bag is instantly recognizable to him and he will show up from wherever with an expectant look on his handsome tabby face. Just last week, we had a bag of mixed lettuces, which makes the same noise, but no arugula or spinach in the mix. There he was. I offered him a couple of different leaves, and his disappointment that it wasn't his 2 faves was palpable.

He also loves plastic grocery bags (we don't get many and we re-use, repurpose and recycle, so no lectures, please) and knows the moment one is in the house. He chews the handles off.

[True Blue American]

45. Your cat would adore my Son.

I asked him to plant some arugula for me last year.

Next thing I knew I had a picture of a plastic bag the size of a pillow case full of arugula.

He spent the summer trying to get rid of it. I asked if he was planting some this year.i received a very firm no. but I bet some comes up.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

42. The crinkling sound of a treat package being opened.

Cats will suddenly appear out of nowhere. They can be sound asleep in an upstairs bedroom but that crinkle sound makes its way into their little sleeping brains and those cats instantly teleport into the kitchen.

[Demovictory9]

44. Mine too. I can't enjoy chips or anything in a wrinkly bag