But I do not think language is one of them. Almost every time I am in the small bathroom, Taki joins me, even if she was (presumably) sound asleep. I think this stems back to her very first days with me. I would feed her into the night, and check on her first thing in the morning. If she seemed to be asleep, I would get on with my morning, which started in the small bathroom. Barely able to see, she would drag herself to the small bathroom crying, letting my know she was hungry. I think she was attracted by the noise. So of course, I would feed her.
So, I think that might the source of her affinity to my being in the small bathroom.
Taki has a hard time with the door. She can push it open from the outside and get into the bathroom. If I keep the door barely cracked, she rubs her cheeks on it. But sometimes, she is trying to open it. I have several times how to open it with the right front foot, pulling it toward her. I actually did it with her right front foot. More than once. But she tries to pull it open with her left front foot, and is actually trying to move the door jamb which is to the right of the door.
Most recently, she has seemed stymied by her attempts to open the door, and I actually took her right front foot and showed her how to open the door again.
Since that lesson, the last couple of mornings, I would tell her, as she kept rubbing her face on the door, to use her foot (if I say paw, I get no response). She then uses her left foot on the door jamb. I tell her to use her other foot, and she does! So, is it language? Is it remembering what to do from before? I do not know, but I do know, if I do not verbally prompt her, she does not get the door open.
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