Woman Checks Pet Cam, Can’t Believe What Maintenance Man Is Doing With Cat

A Nevada woman got a pleasant surprise when checking in on her cat while a maintenance man was working in her apartment.
Raven Green logged into her pet cam at around 12:40 pm on Thursday, August 8, to be greeted to the sight of one of her eight-year-old cats Earl engaged in a “full conversation” with the worker.
“Earl loves to talk, he’s always been a chatty boy since I got him,” Green told Newsweek. “He speaks to me every day, especially once it starts getting close to dinner time.” Judging from the video, Earl understands a few human words too, with the cat appearing fully engaged with her new visitor who, to his eternal credit, is happy to converse with him.
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“Earl talks to visitors often when they come over,” Green said. “He also likes to give me a talking to when I go out of town for a few days and demands some food.”
Cats have been known to understand human words though, especially those coming from their owner. Anita Kelsey, a feline behaviorist and author of Let’s Talk About Cats told Newsweek: “I think it’s safe to say cats understand human speech, not only by what outcome that speech portrays [but also] the familiarity of certain tones and what the outcome of those are too.”
Earl’s conversational skills are not just reserved for his owner and any human visitors though. “He and Elliot, my other cat, both meow back and forth at me to let me know they would like dinner,” Green said.
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The clip of Earl chatting away has won him plenty of fans, racking up over 200,000 views on TikTok. It’s the least Earl deserves after a difficult start to life that might go some way to explaining his sociable ways. “I adopted Earl four years ago from The Humane Society just before the COVID lockdown,” Green said. “He was a street cat before I got him and he was super beat up.”
Earl initially struggled to adapt to a life of domesticity but Green never gave up on him. “It took about a year and a half after adopting him until he felt secure being a house cat,” she said. “At first, he would attack me for food, and with some love and time now he’s the cuddliest boy ever.”
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Now Earl is truly living his best life, enjoying food, cuddles and companionship as well as providing plenty of laughs along the way. “He loves to sunbathe, watch the birds in the window, chase around his brother Elliot,” Green said. “And he loves food. He’s constantly trying to steal what I’m eating. If he hears a whip cream can squirt he comes running and screaming!”
Here’s hoping for more hilarious videos of Earl very soon.