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CATS DON’T TAKE orders from anyone.

It’s not that cats don’t understand human speech or can’t be trained. Cats just do what they want. “Cats don’t do what you expect them to do,” Charlotte de Mouzon, a cat behavior expert at the Université Paris last year. “But if cats don’t come when we call them, it may be because they’re busy doing something else.”

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