This was a fantastic story. I imagined you saying, "Well, come on then," with begrudging, exasperated affection. 10/10 comment.

In public places, my late father had assigned a specific short whistle tune to each child to identify our location (he'd whistle and each of us would answer via specific tune in turn). It also worked as a "distress" or "attention needed" sound if we did it without prompting.

Thank you for reminding me of that!

Heaven is a place... where. .

When I was a kid, I had a 90% success rate for getting my cat to come to me and hop up onto my lap.

Now, it would only work if my cat was in the same room, but it did work. Most of the time.

50% percent of the secret to calling a cat is calling them when they want to come.

"I'd like to see a sunset... Do me a favor, your majesty... Command the sun to set..."

"If I commanded a general to fly from one flower to the next like a butterfly, or to write a tragedy, or to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not carry out my command, which of us would be in the wrong, the general or me?"

"You would be," said the little prince, quite firmly.

"Exactly. One must command from each what each can perform," the king went on. "Authority is based first of all upon reason. If you command your subjects to jump in the ocean, there will be a revolution. I am entitled to command obedience because my orders are reasonable."

"Then my sunset?" insisted the little prince, who never let go of a question once he had asked it.

"You shall have your sunset. I shall command it. But I shall wait, according to my science of government, until conditions are favorable."

One of my cats will come if I call them, the other one will sometimes come when I call them. All depends on the cat.

I had a cat which responded vocally with "mrrr" when hearing his name. Saying the name repeatedly had an 80% chance of summoning my cat, and a 20% chance that he would come running and jumping up into my hug. I loved that cat so much. Smart loving bastard who liked to also chew on my wife's foot on her way to the bathroom at night, and lovingly hump his towel when he was bored.

My cat comes 100% of the time when I call him, he loves me

When my husband and I had two cats both would refuse to come when called, but one would always come running when we called the other. Ya know, because, "Why are you calling the other cat? Hmm? Giving him something tastier than you gave me?"

All 7 of ours will come if called.

I had two cats and both knew several words pretty well, like their names and "food". There is no beast that comes at you faster than a cat when it hears a promise of food.

Yeah no.

If the order was

1. Call cat
2. Cat doesn’t come
3. Shake favorite cat treat bag
4. cat comes

The post would’ve been believable.

I don't want to sound weird, but I guess i would. "Hey baby girl!!! Who's the cutest!!"