Some cats talk a lot. Others don't. I have three very different cats living with me. Rainbow usually just gives a "mew" to get my attention. Sammy is silent. Maybe once a week a tiny "squawk" comes from her -- oddly -- when she hears me sneeze. Crispy "yaks" day and night. He's got a vocabulary of about 100 sounds from demands for food to sirens of boredom to discussions of why I should be getting up to commentary on birds near the window...
How "chatty" are your cats?
I have a brother and sister, Fritz and Lily, almost 11 months old. Abbysinians. Lily has started to just come and say "yow" to me, out of the blue. I think she means to start a conversation. She's not the schmoozy type, so I think making a statement of this sort is conversation in her eyes. Fritz gives painful cries out of nowhere - when Lily and I rush in to see what horrible thing is happening, it's nothing. I think he's doing it to get our attention - but I wish he'd be a little more tactful - sort of a gentle ahem would be nice. Charlotte Acquaviva
Posted by: charlotte acquaviva at May 15, 2004 04:50 PMMy cat talks to me constantly and I mean, not just at feeding time.
She talks to me if I talk to her, (which never ceases to crack me up), she talks to me when I go outside, she voices her displeasure if I do not allow her to hang out with me outside, she talks to me while we are walking around the house and she talks to me when it's time to go to sleep.
While most of that is with her voice, she also speaks to me with her gestures too...tail and eyes of course.
I swear that cat knows what I'm saying sometimes. It's kinda freaky.
Posted by: Serenity at May 15, 2004 05:57 PMI have two - mother Alison and son Smokey. Smokey is a talker like I've never seen. He mews in his sleep! When it rains, he follows me around the house, mewing at me like I'm supposed to stop the rain.
Alison almost never talks unless she's bringing me something. She's the only cat I've seen do this, but when she wants attention she picks up something that she's seen me with, and carries it to me in her mouth, mewing all the while. Yes, she talks with her mouth full. Usually she brings a shoe, cigarettes, a lighter or a book, but lately she keeps getting the replacement air filter out of the closet and bringing me that.
Posted by: Persnickety at May 17, 2004 08:42 AMRainbow does the same thing with one special toy, carry it to me while mewing. I've always figured it means she wants to play.
Posted by: Jeff Soyer at May 17, 2004 02:37 PMAnnie is nicknamed Squeaker as she has the rustiest meow I've ever heard. I think she is part Siamese based on her build, but she is very talkative, especially when it is time to go to bed when she gets lots of attention. She commands, rather than talks.
Grace is very musical and talks when she wants something badly enough, otherwise not so much.
Conrad is very whiny except when he is intent on something. Then he makes little chuffing noises.
Bunny comes to me and yells for attention when he wants it and he makes lots of noises when there is something outside he wants to kill. (None of the kids go outside so this is most of the time.)
Thank goodness my dog is relatively quiet or I would not have any peace here.
Posted by: Carol at May 30, 2004 10:28 AM