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 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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