I don't know. My cat seems to remember people - like, he's really fond of my mom, who cat-sat him for a while (and spoiled him absolutely rotten while she was at it) and has always hated my ex-girlfriend, even when she's tried to bribe him with treats, or when she came back to visit after being gone for about a year. (The reason he hated her was that she had a dog when we lived together, and he hated the dog. She smelled of the dog, so he hated her by extension. Also, she's the one who helped me give him a flea-bath once.)
Places, though, I've never really had an opportunity to test. I'd second what the previous person said about cats thinking more in terms of smells than anything else - my cat always seems upset when we move, because his stuff is leaving the house and the people are all in an uproar, but when we get to the new place he goes around sniffing everything and confirming that yes, it's his stuff, and then he seems to be pretty much satisfied after that. So I would guess that it's more about the stuff and the smells for cats than it is about the box that goes around the stuff, if that makes any sense. Plus, it seems like as long as you are there, they're more or less okay. :)
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Date: 2010-05-21 05:04 am (UTC)Places, though, I've never really had an opportunity to test. I'd second what the previous person said about cats thinking more in terms of smells than anything else - my cat always seems upset when we move, because his stuff is leaving the house and the people are all in an uproar, but when we get to the new place he goes around sniffing everything and confirming that yes, it's his stuff, and then he seems to be pretty much satisfied after that. So I would guess that it's more about the stuff and the smells for cats than it is about the box that goes around the stuff, if that makes any sense. Plus, it seems like as long as you are there, they're more or less okay. :)
Fixed a bad tag. :)