Secret Furry Business

I live with a couple of fur babies — a dog and a cat. We speak three different languages; which are, of course, ‘dog’, ‘cat’ and ‘human’. How much ‘human’ either creature speaks is open to interpretation — but each has an understanding of certain words or gestures made by the human. I have limited ‘dog’ and ‘cat’ in my vocabulary, but I have enough to get me by. The dog won’t learn cat; cats are never to be trusted, you see. On the other side, the cat considers all dogs to be mad, so why would you bother to learn their language?