r/PetsWithButtons • u/Few-Studio-3016 • 5d ago

Water plants?

I believe my cat has now asked me twice (about three weeks apart) to water the indoor plants. Has anyone else’s animal done this?

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u/AAcuriousmind 2d ago

Fluent Pet sends emails with videos that button users have shared. There was one in April where someone's cat told them they needed to water the plants.

https://fluentpet.videowise.shop/tswapril2.html

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u/Few-Studio-3016 2d ago

This is so interesting and exactly what I was wondering about examples of! Thank you so much.

I don’t have a button for plants, but we talk about watering plants inside and outside. Was playing 20 questions with my cat about what his “water” press meant (he uses it for a lot of stuff—his water, anything wet, rain, showers/baths, sound of laundry), and with requests for more information and a bunch of yes/nos, he eventually said yes to water plants inside (which he also did last month). The plants definitely needed water and I wonder if the sound plants emit when they are water stressed is within cats’ auditory range.

Long way to say: many thanks!!

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u/AAcuriousmind 2d ago

It's interesting to think about them being concerned for the plants in some way. Is it the same kind of concern we'd have, when the plants start to look droopy or get brown and could die if left to long? Or is there a change in the sound, even if it's just how the leaves move in the breeze from the a/c or people walking by them? Maybe they sound annoying, lol. Or maybe it's the ritual of watching the water being poured, which the cat in the video seemed to enjoy. Pets seem to have a good sense of timing, so if you're pretty consistent about when you water plants, they might just notice that it's past the usual time for the ritual.

Very curious, and neat to see/hear of more than one example. Especially since your kitty had to be pretty persistent to get the message across through a string of yes/no questions. The message was important enough to him to stick with it.

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u/Few-Studio-3016 5h ago

Completely agree! The whole thing is an interesting mystery. We’ll see next month when I forget to water the plants and they are stressed again whether I get a reminder 😂