Can you visualize your pet's (pets') face(s)?

I can't visualize much, to be honest, so I'm hardly the test case. When Alice and I were together, I could easily visualize her face though. Amelia the monkey cat, with whom I spend practically all my time, and who believes her life is not complete unless she spends a fair amount of that time with her face in front of mine (thus her sometime nickname, Face-Time Continuum) has a wonderful face I nevertheless cannot visualize. I think that the human brain is made for remembering the faces of other humans best, but I'm certainly aware that I am at the bottom on any scale of visualization skills and would be thrilled to hear that other people have no problem picturing their pet's face or their pets' faces. So can you? Edit: And if yes, did you have a pet as a child? (because I didn't)

Of course, I'm cheating with Seanie the orange tabby, 'cause Mom gave me an old picture of him a couple of years ago.

And remember, I'm sort of in the same boat with you when it comes to face recognition 'n' stuff. :hi:

Of course this might have something to do with the fact that I never had a pet until age 44 or so. I still have time to edit the original post; maybe I'll add "If yes, did you have a pet as a child?"

As to Aspourgeoisness, I recognize faces fine (including the monkey's). I just can't visualize them. Might be a different set of wiring that I'm just missing. Maybe generations of inbreeding between the highly near-sighted led to a brain that just says, "I'm not going to be able to see shit after age 11 anyway; why bother learning to visualize?" (Darwin rolls in his grave.:)):hi: back

Edit: And all sympathies and condolences on the loss of your long-ago pets.

I have a much harder time hearing the sound of my brother's voice (RIP). I almost have forgotten what he sounded like. That kills me.

If you're anything like me, you may find him visiting in your dreams when you don't expect it, as with my late mother and a deceased childhood friend. Sounds creepy, but the dreams are always cheerful and reassuring.

were always dreams where I thought he was alive somehow. I'd find him somewhere and tell him how we all thought he was dead. But then at the end, I'd realize that he was dead. Crazy.

But then I believe he kinda came to me in one of my dreams, and it made a peace of sorts. Now all my dreams of him are pleasant.

Perhaps because my cats are so similar in appearance (sisters) that I had to pay extra attention to detail

Monkey says, "You could visualize my face if you'd get that laptop off your belly, dumb butt!" (She doesn't really, but wouldn't it be funny?)

Dogs, cats, turtles.

Clearly I'm weird; I guess everybody noticed already though.:)

It's not just the colors and markings. Milo has a round face with big round yellow eyes and a kind of happy look. Pixie has blue eyes and odd stripes with a little white blaze (she's part Siamese), and she has a perky facial expression, with narrower eyes. Jeoffry, the gray tabby, has green eyes, a narrow face and a long, straight nose, and he tends to look kind of intense, sometimes even a little worried. I didn't have to look at them to describe them. I know those little faces just as much as if they were people.

Her go-to is sort of puzzled, though.:)

I can easily picture my pets, those here and those I had in the past.

I recognized Huckleberry's voice and can easily distinguish it from Tommy's, his littermate and brother of some sort. Huckle has a flat voice while Tommy's is higher and more musical.
I can certainly distingush their faces. Tommy has a smaller, more, dare I say, puppy-like face with a pinched little mouth that always seems to register a sense of disapproval. There's a permanent smudge of black on his pink nose and his eyes are always small pupilled, giving him an aspect of perpetual concern.
Huckleberry, on the other hand, is bigger and lankier generally, with more pronounced orange coloring and darker stripes. His pupils are always huge and his ears always up.
I would bet I could pick out both of them in a lineup.

"No, officer, it's not #2. The whiskers were longer, and I think he had bigger ears. Maybe #4, but I think he had more pronounced stripes on his forehead. And his fangs were sticking out a little. It's not #5; he had a pink nose. It could be #3. Can you ask him to meow again?"

With a nervous, tearful mouse on the other side of the two-way mirror. The police officers would be dogs, of course.

:P

I never thought of not being able to do that. Sort of take it for granted.

I don't know if this is relevant to your situation with visualization, but here's a link you might at least find interesting. I did. It's a first person account and that makes it all the more interesting.
http://www.prosopagnosia.com/main/stones/index.asp

edit: love that face-time-continuum.:P:

The link was interesting, but as far as I know I have no more trouble recognizing faces than anybody else. I just can't visualize worth crap. I guess my point was that what I can visualize is a beloved person's face, but I can't visualize a beloved cat's.

both mine and those at my dad's house. i would know them anywhere.

i've been cat-less for maybe one of my 28 years.

Including the first one I lost, my doggie sister who died when I was 13. (I'm 39 now) I can't even remember the names or visualize the faces of most people I went to school with as a kid or worked with in various jobs in my 20s, but all the past pets are right here with me.

I have to admit, I probably think about my cat more times every day than I do any person.

by the humane society. I went into their building to identify him. I don't know what I was thinking because the hair on the cat doesn't change color after they die. But I had the damnedest time identifying the right cat. They brought one frozen cat after the other out for me to identify. Then I saw him.

He was my baby. I raised him from 6 weeks old and couldn't even identify him properly. Not a good day for me.

:hug:

I can still see my late dog Katie smiling as she ran towards me. I can see them all.

Especially since I usually see this at 5:30 in the morning...