#17 Flounder the Cat Who Thinks She’s a Fish
I’m obsessed with the animals that use the pre-programmed word buttons to “talk”… The most fascinating to me is Flounder the cat. Now that she has the words, she very adamantly insists her humans don’t refer to her as a cat, but thinks of herself as a fish. She has a favorite movie (Pocahontas) that she ask to watch and understands that Pocahontas in the TV is pretend but a woman who dresses up as Pocahontas is real.
She uses the toy in the ball to press buttons and uses words to ask for things from the toy’s perspective. Having small kids, I know they don’t have theory of mind until like 5 or 6 so it fascinates me that this cat has developed it.
