The easiest message in the universe to communicate is telling a dog you've dropped something edible on the floor.  You tap your toe near the item, and the dog eats it.  This is universal; no dog, regardless of its intelligence level, fails to understand this.  Even people who have never been around a dog will do this instinctively.  It's *the* core element of the 60,000 year old cooperative agreement between humans and dogs.

It is, on the other hand, utterly impossible to convey the same information to a cat.  It would be easier to construct an entirely new language based on prime numbers to communicate with alien gas orbs from the planet Zargon than it is to get a cat to understand you dropped a small bit of chicken and it's RIGHT FUCKING THERE.

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 We had a brief period between one dog dying and getting the next dog.  Some food got dropped on the floor and my husband and I just stood there looking at the food and looking at each other wondering what to do.  We finally figured out we were going to have to bend over and pick up the food.  We were not used to that. 

 Heh, I totally get it.  I can just picture two people standing there, slightly confused about the next step.  "We used to have a guy for this, didn't we?"