The fur babies were in the den. I was in the laundry room.

[Siwsan]

I opened the cupboard, above the laundry tub, where I keep the treats and several other things. The INSTANT I put my hand on the treat sticks all four came racing into the room.

How the heck do they know!?!?!?!?

[SheltieLover]

1. They heard their fav cabinet door's unique sound

Likely inaudible to us.

[tblue37]

4. One of mine wants to usurp any brushing I offer to one of the others. Lucy can be in another room

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and sound asleep, but she somehow hears the first stroke of the comb or brush and comes running, trying to force me to brush her instead.

Their hearing & recognition of sounds are amazing.

Or else they are telepathic.

[SheltieLover]

7. Maybe both!

They are truly amazing creatures!

[kedrys]

2. Iirc, that superpower is called 'tunar'.

[niyad]

5. LOVE IT!!!!!

[SheltieLover]

8. Bazinga!

[Rebl2]

9. 🤣😂🤣

Good one!

[2naSalit]

12. I believe you're right!

Haven't heard that one in decades!

[calimary]

13. That's gotta be it!

Our three cats have quite a refined sense of it!

[Archae]

3. I can just THINK of getting out a can of wet food, and my two teleport in...

No one in the kitchen.

I think about getting a can out, and POOF! There they are.

[getagrip_already]

14. We don't feed wet food, but it happens on the rare occaasion I open a can of tuna....

The tuna we have has pull top lids. Of course other foods that come in cans, like beans, also have pull top lids.

We open the other type much more frequently than tuna, which is usually only at lunch.

They only react to the tuna. Never to the other foods.

Wierd.

[lastlib]

17. They smell it.

I once unwrapped a tin-foil package of frozen turkey, and my tux cat came running (or at least her best approximation of running--she was somewhat crippled by arthritis at that time.) She was a little hard of hearing then, too, so it had to be smell or telepathy.

[niyad]

6. They are such smart babies.

[Glaisne]

10. Aren't posts about fur babies

required to include pics?

[CaptainTruth]

11. I think cats have amazing hearing, & remember sounds.

I've had cats do similar things & I went through each step of the process, slowly, pausing after each one, until I did one thing that made them come running, & it was one specific sound.

For example I had a cat that came running every time I opened a can of tuna. I could take the can out of the cupboard, put it on the counter, rattle it around... no reaction. But when I pulled on the tab to open it & the tab penetrated the lid & it made the "pfft" sound because the can was vacuum packed, instant cat running into the kitchen.

[Ocelot II]

15. They can hear you thinking about giving them treats.

[pazzyanne]

16. But they know!

I think it's a super power they have!