How to call the overridden method of a superclass?

Question

How can I call the eat and drink method of the Animal class with the myAnimal instance in the code?

public class Animal {     public void eat() {         System.out.println("Animal Eats");     }      public void drink() {         System.out.println("Animal Drinks");     } } 

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public class Cat extends Animal {     @Override     public void eat() {         System.out.println("Cat Eats");     }      @Override     public void drink() {         System.out.println("Cat Drinks");     }      public static void main(String[] args) {         Cat myCat = new Cat();         myCat.eat();         myCat.drink();          Animal myAnimal = myCat;                 myAnimal.eat();         myAnimal.drink();     } } 

Output that I am getting:

Cat Eats Cat Drinks Cat Eats Cat Drinks 

This is my expected output:

Cat Eats Cat Drinks Animal Eats Animal Drinks 

Answer 1

You cannot do what you want. The way polymorphism works is by doing what you are seeing.

Basically a cat always knows it is a cat and will always behave like a cat regardless of if you treat is as a Cat, Felis, Felinae, Felidae, Feliformia, Carnivora, Theria, Mammalia, Vertebrata, Chordata, Eumetazoa, Animalia, Animal, Object, or anything else :-)

Answer 2

Here you will have an option to choose which method do you want to invoke:

public class Cat extends Animal {      public void superEat() {         super.eat();     }      public void superDrink() {         super.drink();     }      @Override     public void eat() {         System.out.println("Cat Eats");     }      @Override     public void drink() {         System.out.println("Cat Drinks");     } }