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No, their memories aren't nearly that long. I used to have 2 kittens who were reunited with their own littermate after a month apart--they had no idea she was family. Territory warfare almost broke out, just the way it does between cats who are total strangers.
I've even heard it suggested that cats have no concept of individuals, only situations. Your cat knows the person who fills her food bowl, the one she sleeps with at night, and the one who chases her off the kitchen table, but she can't understand that all those people are the same. So she might have completely different reactions to you based on where you are and what time it is. I don't know if this is true (it seems to explain some of the cats I've had but not others). Still, if that's really all the knowledge a cat needs about an individual, then 1) they never really knew you to begin with and 2) their memories of people only need to last as long as their routine stays the same.
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∙ 16y ago
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∙ 16y agoYes. The story of my own cat says that cats do remember.
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∙ 6y agoactually its proven that cats brains are structured almost just like humans. it is said they have fairly good recollection- memory-
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∙ 9y agoNormally, cats will usually not remember things for very long of a time. If you did something to harm the cat, they may remember it for a longer period of time.
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∙ 13y agoit is less than 24 hours
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∙ 12y agothe memory span of a cat is 17 months
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∙ 11y ago3173 days max
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