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They have a vocabulary and knowledge of the environment... Just not a large vocab.
You can get talking buttons and train pets to develop a shared kind of understanding of language and express wants/needs.
Here's a podcast of someone's experience:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHdnqpOFShc
My cat would just be pushing the "I want food" button all day, even though she's already got food in her bowl.
(But she wants new food!)
Cat might want a specific food from its past.
I believe one cat started pushing "plant cylinder" because they were once fed pumpkin from a can.
My favorite story about this is chimpanzees trying brussel sprouts for the first time and then using pictograms on the wall to refer to the brussel sprouts as "garbage cabbage".