There was an unpleasant and inexplicable incident with the cat. A wonderful Maine Coon Basia has been living with us for 7 years. The cat is quite smart, affectionate, not capricious. During all this time, there were several cases suggesting that he understood the words, but they were all "on the verge".
My comments are my personal observations and opinion only.
I do not hold any certification nor claim to have expertise in any capacity.
We also have a very intelligent, and, from his behaviour and actions, a higher level of consciousness cat living with us.
I concur with your observation that some of these creatures we share our lives with, definitely understand what is being said to them.
Our boy cat is highly interactive, understands many words and phrases and is very intelligent.
He also has Maine Coon heritage, as well as being polydactyl ,he has extra toes on his feet, opposable thumbs!
What happened today (and is still happening) shocked me. I will describe the situation. My wife, my cat and I are in the kitchen. I'm sitting at the table, reading, my wife is washing dishes and talking on the phone at the same time, the cat is lying on the floor in a completely relaxed state. The wife in the course of the conversation says the phrase: "then there will be soup with a cat." In Russian, this saying means that you need to do something now without looking at the consequences, and deal with the consequences as they occur.
During this part, when your wife says the phrase, he was still calmly lying on the floor, right? The conversation was on the phone between two humans,so, none of his concern.
I decided to make a joke and said to the Bass: "do you hear what they are talking about? Soup with a cat!" The cat immediately jumped up and rushed out of the kitchen into the room and hid under the sofa. He behaves this way when, in his opinion, something threatens him or when he is scolded.
Wow, when you spoke directly to him, do you by chance remember if you held an “image in you mind”, a thought picture of a cat in distress, in a pot?
Or, some other thought image depicting what “soup with a cat” would look like to you?
I ask this, because on occasion I have had extremely excellent results in communicating with our cats, as well as several dogs and a few horses.
I have sent images while saying the words, as well as just sent images alone, and the responses seemed to be received equally.
The highlight of my experiences has been receiving an image, a thought form, from them, to me, on several occasions.
There was nothing like that in this situation. I said my words in a joking tone and, honestly, I can't understand what the cat could react to in such a way, except that he literally understood the meaning of what was said.
It sure looks like he heard you, loud and clear.
Also, when you used the words “literally understood” well, now you know, these cohabiting, amazing creatures don’t “get” our jokes!
I’ve done a bit of reading, experimenting and researching into human/animal communications, and although there’s lots of woo-woo out there, there are some serious and scientific animal communicators, and they describe that this is exactly how 2nd Density creatures see and hear what we say to them, in concrete, literal terms, like young children.
They don’t tend to have abstract thinking abilities.
He believes you, he loves and trusts you. He depends on you for comfort and survival.
Of course he’s gonna run and hide!
My wife and I noticed this unusual reaction, discussed it a bit and she followed the cat into the room. He was sitting under the soofa and immediately wouldn't let her near him, crawled away, sat there for more than an hour before he got out. And even now, when he came out of hiding, he's kind of wary, although we talked and tried to explain everything to him.What's it? 3D?
I like to consider that our cat boy, Banjo, is bridging 2nd density to possibly be born into 3rd density in his next upcoming incarnation.
It’s interesting to ponder that as the wave progresses, as human consciousness moves to 4th Density, some of those beloved beings that have gained higher empathy, higher knowledge of being, from being loved by us, may graduate as well.
Hopefully he forgives you soon. It’s up to you to make amends, which you are doing.
Thankfully, dogs and cats don’t carry grudges too long, because they don’t have the same concept of time/revenge that humans have.
That is unless it’s an unforgivable act against their life, or territory.
Then, I think they remember an enemy forever.