Gah. I just realized that my cat thinks that the word ‘time’ means ‘dinner’. She gets her dinner at 6:00 but starts meowing for it sooner, and I usually tell her ‘It’s not time yet!’ right up until it is time, at which point I ask her ‘Is it time?’ and she starts a meowfest and scurries off to the kitchen.

I need to find a new word. Maybe ‘dinner’. She doesn’t know what that means.