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RE: Look What I Got For My Birthday!! ~ A Nice Surprise In The Mail ~ With Help From Stinky the Cat ~ Original Photography, Art, and Short Discussion ~
Cats respond most readily to names that end in an \ee\" sound."""
Thank goodness we changed Stinky the Cat's name early on. She was originally Buttercup. But that name just did not fit a junkyard cat with a 'tude' and very few front teeth.
We call her "Busy" a lot now. As well as Stinklepuss. The Busy name fits this idea above well. The other one, Stinklepuss thing...not so much. That would explain why she usually ignores me when I call her that.
While many parts of Europe and North America consider the black cat a sign of bad luck, in Britain and Australia, black cats are considered lucky.
In My part of the country, they're just considered to be hard to see at night, and easy to trip over on the way to the bathroom at 3:06 in the morning.
I'm not so sure about this. I think Stinky the Cat responds to anything that sounds like a can opener. Or food klinking in her dish. Or the sound of the refrigerator opening up. Do any of those make an 'eeek' sound? Maybe in a super-sub-sonic sense, like a dog-whistle. But I think more research is in order here, before I put any socks in my basket on this whole idea.
No wonder cats like mice so much. Whenever a human sees a mouse, they shout "eeek". So this makes total sense.