r/OneOrangeBraincell • u/Azsnee09 • Mar 26 '26

searching for service 📶 Trapped inside the chamber of extra braincells

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u/ADRobban Mar 26 '26

100%. A friend of mine has a dog that needs painkillers because of hip problems. The dog has learned where the pills are stored and will start sitting infornt of the cupboard, every time it is time to take the pill. You don't even have to hide the pill in treats anymore.

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u/CyborgHeart1245 Mar 26 '26

My cat, luckily, doesn't have any issues, but if she thinks something is wrong she'll seek me out. Animals learn good habits a lot faster than people. 

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u/HealthyInPublic Mar 26 '26

My cat being a good communicator is what saved his life and helped us get control of his medical conditions!! We were told he was a healthy kitten when we adopted him, but he was dealing with a medical mystery that's still kinda ongoing 1.5 years later.

But he comes to sit on our chest to growl at our face when he has a flare up so I know to call his internist and get his flare up meds ordered. Then he comes to wake me up in the mornings to lead me to the kitchen for his meds - which I think is interesting because he can't have treats due to a strict hydrolyzed protein diet, so he must solely associate them with relief.

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u/blancawiththebooty Mar 26 '26

My old lady dog (who I miss every day) would respond to us asking if she needed "feel betters" aka pain meds for arthritis. She didn't need them all the time but if she was feeling extra sore, she'd respond positively in some way when we asked.

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u/elfgeode Mar 26 '26

That's so cute 😭

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u/Luvatar Mar 26 '26

I had a cat that got an eye scratched badly in a scuffle. The first time we gave him his eye drops we needed 3 people for it.

By the third day I could give him the drops with a single hand. He would sit patiently with the eye open for me.

They know.

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u/Professional-Cap-495 Mar 26 '26

I had a diabetic car and he did something similar every morning for his shots

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u/Infernal-Fox Mar 26 '26

Did it also purr like a cat would?

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u/Wonderstruck13 Mar 27 '26

That’s why you’re not supposed to put sugar in the fuel tank.

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u/smittie713 Mar 26 '26

I lost one of my cats to cancer this past summer, but they had her on a steroid treatment towards the end, to ease her passing. She showed up every morning for her pill, half the time with payment, as she seemed to decide that if she was going out she had better take some mice with her (we live in farmland, so the kitties work part time as pest control). It was a very weird summer, but I'm glad we got to have some happy days together before the end.