# Any way of making a cat like you best?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [December 26, 2025, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-of-making-a-cat-like-you-best/1026070 "2025-12-26T12:48:25Z")
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### Author: ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2025, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-of-making-a-cat-like-you-best/1026070/13 "2025-12-26T20:21:13Z")

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> [@pkbites](#):
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> > [@Beckdawrek](#):
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> > They actually have catnip spray just for this.
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> I had found the spray to not be effective.

Many kittens, and some adult cats, aren’t much interested in catnip.

Some dogs are, though.

> [@Moriarty](#):
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> You can’t speak cat. Don’t even try.

There’s a lot of Cat that humans can’t speak, because it’s said with the tail (which we haven’t got at all), or with the ears (which we don’t have enough outer parts of to move properly), or even by raising the fur. But we can learn to understand quite a bit of it.

And some of it we can speak. I gave an example a bit upthread.

Dogs usually try to learn Human. But cats expect the humans to learn Cat.

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