Does animals understands human language?

they understand your tone of voice. also, if you use a word enough, they can learn what it means. like whenever i say "treat" i give my dogs a treat. so now they know that when i say "treat" they're going to get something yummy. they can learn names of people/other pets. my dogs know what the suitcases mean-we're leaving them, they get really sad and just lay around. but if they begin to see some of their things starting to be piled next to a suitcase, they start acting normal because they know they're coming too. they can associate words/sounds with an object, person, event, etc. But you can't exactly carry on a conversation with them and have them understand everything you're talking about.

Yes, they can learn to understand us. When my husband and I brought home our cat, Tiger, he was about 2 months or a little younger. We talked to Tiger all the time, as if he did understand. And he did. There are too many examples for me to write here, that proves he is a very intelligent cat. He is now 16 years old and the smartest cat I have ever lived with, and there were many.

I don't understand why people will write an answer in this section if they do not like cats.

Animals understand sounds, they understand alarm calls and can also learn the sounds made by another species.

They understand cause and effect (when one thing happens, another always follows) so can learn to associate the noise you make with an event. The sound of the can opener and their name have meaning to animals.

So if your cat knows the other cats name is 'big orange cat' you made her think of her friend when you said that, thats why she looked interested. Then when she realised that big orange cat wasn't about to appear she got disgruntled.

That oesn't mean that they understand every word you say, or how you feel. A cat is a cat, and can only think like a cat. She can't step into the human world. When you keep animals you have to enter their world and try to understand them. Thats our speciual ability with animals; the ability to see things from their point of view, not ours.

If you spend a lot of time with your pet, yes, they do start to understand things you say. But not the way you think. They understand the energy you are giving off. Your cat probably felt the sympathy in your voice and body language. That is why it stopped and looked at you. That was its way of communicating back with you. But not because it knew exactly what you were saying. Cats are very sensitive to our energies.

If animals can understand what you are talking about, then they understand human language better than we do!

If you are asking (in some round about way) if cats understand words, then yes they do.

Cats learn by repetition and habit.

If you say 'outside' and go to the door and open it, they will understand when you say 'outside', it means they can go out and they will go to the door.

If you say 'eat' and open a can of food, or fill their bowls with dryfood, they will associate the word 'eat' with food, and run to the kitchen when you say 'eat'.

When I say 'ear', my cats RUN because they know that word means earmite medicine...which they HATE!

They basically relate words to objects. They dont understand language like humans do, they understand words not sentences n when u must have said "Big Orange Cat" she must ve caught dat 1 word dat she knws is used to address her late husband and she realized dat ur talkin bout him..

I believe that with time and a lot of patience, the relationship between you and your pet will become more and more closed. What I really mean is that with constant interrelation with your pet, your relation will eventually grow into a better one. Treat your pet as another living being. Treat it as it really going to become part of your daily living. Make it feel comfortable with your presencen, don't have to be so tough on him. Be kind, gentle, persuasive and constant in your daily relation. You'll see big changes on both behavior, you'll learn to handle your pet at in change your pet will know and learn whos the one with the control. Don't be harsh on it, just be really patient, you eventually see the results.

i do believe that they can understand a lot of things.

if she is missing the big orange cat than maybe you

should not mention it anymore so she does not get

depressed. they can really understand certain things we

say and do. just like you can understand them most of

the time.

Wow really sweet story but I don't think she understood you she might have wanted to be pet and was disapointed when you didn't pet her. Also cats don't mate with one cat all their lives they are more like flings all the time.

Yes animals understand human language and develop large vocabularies depending on how much you talk to them.