My dog has the ability to determine when she is going for a ride in the car. I take her for rides randomly and I take care not to change my routine for “doggy rides” and when I leave her in the house.
I always let her out for a couple of minutes before I leave (so she can tinkle). When she is not going with me, she does her business and then immediately comes back to the door. When she is riding, she squats and then sits by car and waits excitedly by the car.
She can either read my mind, or read my body language because she is nearly 100% accurate. She doesn’t go in the car often, maybe three times a month.
Chutney has a couple of super powers. My husband says she can make herself incredibly heavy so that he cannot push her off the bed at 4 a.m. He cannot move her unless he gets up and fills her food bowl.
Her other power is to project the sound of a herd of buffalo stampeding from one end of the flat to the other. Maybe all cats can do this, but in relation to human abilities, this is a super power. She’s only one cat.
Our old dog Larque could levitate. One moment, all four feet on the floor; the next, all four feet on some object with a higher elevation. No motion involved; just down there then up here.
No matter where he is in the house and no matter where I hide, my ringneck parrot Isidore can tell when I’ve brought home a meatball sandwich from Subway. I’m not sure how he does this–unlike dogs and cats birds generally don’t have a strong sense of smell. I started calling this talent “Sandwich Radar.”
Isidore seems to believe in reincarnation and is working on his next life, in which he will be a Russian Setter. I’m sure of this because whenever I’m in the kitchen cooking something he’ll rush in and set 'er.
