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Nah. Cat would be yelling like an air horn, until it had made clear its displeasure for being abandoned.

Then it would turn around and go hide and be offended until it got hungry, or heard the can opener.

Had a cat once who loved to drop aluminium foil balls (which we threw for her to chase and play with, and ended up laying around all over the place, as cat toys are wont to) into the water bowl and then fish them out.

I have an auto-feeder.

It's not the same, though. It tastes better when you do it.

(Bonus points if you "cook" it in the kitchen like you would your food; they're part of the family, after all, they'll appreciate being treated like equals. Or betters.)

If she could see the sun, or hear people moving outside, or anything like that, yeah, a smart dog can easily learn to recognise those signals.

Probably not, but when it's an hour later than usual cats will complain, and probably get stressed. (If it's one hour early they'll happily eat it, but might ask for seconds and hour later.)

Yes, but cats love routine, and follow it as much as possible, like a clock.

You can train a dog to respond a certain ways to certain signals, but you can't train it to wake you up every day at a certain specific time, unless it can recognise some signal. But cats will train themselves to do that, if they get something out of it, and are by nature well aware of the time of day, with surprising precision.

Of course, if you train your cat to wake you up for work, better be ready to be woken up at the same time on weekends, unless there's some noticeable enough difference (like traffic noise on the street outside) between workdays and holidays and you're lucky to have a sufficiently smart cat who can notice the difference. Cats might be quite adequate clocks, but they're not calendars.

They do it for themselves, not the cats. The cats know when it's mealtime, unless mealtime happens at a new random time every day.

Do something your cat enjoys at a specific time every day for a couple days, and you've got yourself a furry alarm clock that will make sure to remind you of the time if you forget.

If you're going to sit and stare at something without doing anything productive you might as well sit and stare at my magnificence.
Now, get to petting.

— Cats

Cats do hate water (except when they don't), but they love routine much more than they hate water.

Cat learnt human bath time meant cat sleeping on the shoulder time, cat will sleep on the shoulder every time the human takes a bath, water or not, because that's how reality works now in her world.

Cats aren't dumb

Most cats aren't.

Also, one thing you might have failed to notice in the picture, is that good little Frank there appears to be orange.

Now, I assume some orange cats aren't completely dumb as fuck... but that's evidently not the case with exhibit one in the OP.

Sure... but Tolkien could tell you Treebeard's name in hall a dozen languages he'd made up for his setting (or for fun, before the setting was a thing), including full etymologies.