cats

I know orange cats have a reputation for being dumb but mine was by far the smartest cat I've had. He especially had an intuition for communication that none of my others did.

I was generally on top of keeping the water dish full and the one time it's getting low he does a loud meow to get me to look at him and plops down and does exaggerated head turns. He looks at the water dish for a couple seconds, looks at me, turns his head back to the water dish. Just zero ambiguity whatsoever. Hey jackass, do you see what I'm looking at?

I feel very confident my black cat would have handled this by rubbing his head against me in the exact same way he did when wanting attention or literally anything else.