Teaching animals to communicate

Nope, the cat trains YOU. :B Some are just much better at it than others. When I walk into the bedroom where Edna is sleeping on our bed, she always looks up at me and says Meow? with the question mark in her voice. It's like she's saying, "You rang?" Some cats are really good at non-verbal communication, too. If you're lucky, you might get one "heart cat" in a lifetime, and with those, you communicate on an almost spiritual level, hard to describe if you've never known one. Mine was a feral gray tabby named Romeo who became one of the best friends I ever had. We "communicated" before I ever laid eyes on him. I spoke to him in "cat" in the cold, dark night for a week or two before he ever revealed himself to me. I will forever miss that cat.