My last cat (called Manson, a big black cat about knee high, got hit by a car R.I.P) I lived in a house with my x fiance and it was on a reasonable sized block of land and when I would come home from uni Manson would come running accross the whole yard to meet me, he somehow knew when I was comming home and would come running up to meet me everytime... I would then go inside and my fiance sitting on the couch wouldn;t even look up to greet me LOL