Hi - I have looked all over the web and found this board, and I figured someone here would know this story. I could swear it is a Ray Bradbury story, but maybe not. Anywhere, he goes. It's a story about what happens when people can hear what animals are thinking. Like the cat wants to know when it's litter box is getting changed, etc. etc. Anybody?

Saki (H. H. Munro) wrote a story called "Tobermory" about a professor who teaches a cat to talk, with disastrous results. (Ray's stories are SO reminiscent of Saki's I was AMAZED that he claims not to have read, or at least been influenced by, them.) Roald Dahl wrote "The Sound Machine," which appeared in a book Ray edited, about a professor who invented a machine to translate plants' feelings, also with pretty unhappy results.