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Lazy evening.

Cats have biscuits upstairs and downstairs all the time; wet food in the evening, between 8-ish 9-ish. Milk every two or three days, sometimes tuna or mackerel (found this half price and stocked up.) Tonight - right, milk, definitely; after Mouse, who tends to be constipated, had diarrohea a few days ago, I haven't given milk, but she's solid again so yes, milk, and I'll open a tin of mackerel too. After I've watched a 1940s dvd (I'm into old films) which is due to finish around 7.30.

All through the Ealing Studio film noir I'm thinking, milk...mackerel, milk... mackerel. By the time the anti-hero had been clobbered by the police and his unwilling accomplice forgiven by her husband, in between thoughts of milk and mackerel, I realised I had two rowdy gingers on my hands.

'OY! Where's our tea then?'

Molly was screaming, Emily was yelling. Now there was no way they could know I intended mackerel for their tea - the tins are upstairs in the back bedroom where they dine. I had left the milk bottle on the draining board to come to room temperature, but that was all.

'All right, all right, I'm coming!'

Dash upstairs with the milk bottle and there's Mouse, big plushy black with white front (at this time of year we say she's wearing her black winter cardigan lol.)

'Where's my milk and mackerel then???'

I dish up, one pouch and a tin of steam-cooked John West Mackerel (no added brine) smushed up together, with Molly bashing herself against my legs and snorting like a little bull with excitement.

Cats' chorus: 'And about time too!'

But how did they KNOW?

They NEVER carry on like that as a rule.

Be careful out there, because cats can read your thoughts lol

They don't need thumbs, they already rule the world!

I too believe they know, everything about us, If any of mine catch birds/frogs/etc...they KNOW what i am thinking ...funny they even know i am thinking swear words when they spot that i have spotted them !!!!

One of mine also knows when the TV programme has finished even though we haven't said a word, turned the TV off or anything - and she immediately gets up and starts shouting at us to give her supper!!

LOL! I'm not alone then

Nannymcfee, I remember when I lived in a rural area and George (the Beast of Bodmin lookalike) used to stalk along the garden fence with some hapless creature in his jaws...

'George. Is that dead?'

Crunch!

'It is now,' said George. He knew that if he brought it in alive I wouldn't let him keep it.

Oh but you know what?

After all that fuss - they left half the mackerel!

Tuna in future!

Theo is due for his yearly check up, booster injection and flea treatment and claw trim at 10 am this morning at the vets and hes sitting in the back bedroom upstairs meowing. When I go in hes just staring at me and wont let me stroke him. Very strange for theo. he loves his cuddles. So im sure he somehow knows and I feel so mean

Aww, poor Theo - it's true, they do know. Hope he's recovered from his 'ordeal' now and normal cuddle service has been resumed, bless him.

In my teens I had a boyfriend with a Honda 50 - sitting waiting for him on the front porch with my then cat Saada, I always knew when he was arriving, as Saada would bristle and slope off...minutes before his bike appeared on the horizon a quarter of a mile away. She never reacted like this to any other bike, and Alan was a kindly lad. She just didn't like his Honda lol.

Give Theo a love from me, bet he was very brave