What thought processes do you have when I say the word cat?

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Immediately, what came into my mind was a precise image of a house around the corner from me, where a cat greets my daughter and I every morning. I see my daughter bending down and stroking it. Now, I'm thinking of the conversation I had with the cat's owner, an hour or so ago. And now I'm thinking of my friends, as we're going to visit them tomorrow and they have a cheeky little kitten. I could go on...

Nothing. Not even an image in my mind.

Pleasant, happy, soothing images. I love cats.

I imagine greeting a friendly, soft, purring cat while walking down the street by talking to it, petting it and rubbing its head...whenever this happens, I am happy for the rest of the day. I find that cat company is better than people company when I'm stressed, as they are more calm and less demanding socially.

Cats take a long time to trust a human being. plus on top of that, they have all got individual tastes and smells and come and go as they please which is strange seeing as I looked into a quiz once and it came up with the result of mayan cougar.
Id like to have one when im old maybe, but some felines are just too fussy and do not have my best interests at heart.

A good luck cat
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I think of how my head begins to stuff up, and my eyes burn, and I begin sneezing.

Seriously, as much as I'm a lover of all animals, I get a serious reaction to cat dander. It can be as bad as heart arrhythmias.

Charles

I see my current cat - orange tabby, unfortunately declawed. Has a kind of a harsh voice and is very talkative (similar to a Siamese), and is extremely anxious about having food available because the last person who had him didn't feed him.

I see my cat and the adoring contempt I have for it.

I think of various cats doing things like meowing, purring, playing, sleeping, grooming, and strutting around like they own the place. Normal cat activities.

I feel a cat, specifically our kitty who ran away recently.
She feels smooth and soft! Secondarily, I see her, like a movie, not a picture. With the sight and touch together, it's like I have her with me in my mind.
Which is both comforting, because I do miss her, and torture, because, well, I miss her.
After that, I get memories of cat-related things. The sound of cat food pouring into a bowl. "Jingle jingle!" A "movie" of walking through the pet aisle of the store. And, of course, because this "cat" thought isn't coming to me naturally, my internal monologue of "What DO I think about when I think of cat?" which is expressed as words that I hear, not as words and letters that I would see.

mental meows!

Claws. Very sharp claws.

My initial train of though: Cat (animal), cat5 cable, catalogue, category, "What is this question aiming to achive?", "Word-association experiment?", "is it scientific?", "is there a particular hypothesis?", "Is it merely curiosity?", "What interesting questions could the results be used to investigate?"

I seem to think more in concepts than anything visual. I am perfectly able to visualise a cat if I choose but, if left to my own devices, I tend to imagine concepts, systems, questions and conclusions. Scientific/systematic thinking i suppose.