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Interpreting CatSpeak

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Dave Gerecke - 18 Nov 2005 09:19 GMT
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For those of you who are experiencing difficulties communciating
with your feline, this list will help you understand his/her
language.

Cat Phrase - Meaning

Miaow - Feed me.

meeow - Pet me.

mrooww - I love you.

miioo-oo-oo - I am in love and must meet my betrothed outside
beneath the hedge. Don't wait up.

mrow - I feel like making noise.

rrrow-mawww - Please, the time is come to tidy the cat box.

rrrow-miawww - I have remedied the cat box untidiness by shoveling
the contents as far out of the box as was practical.

miaowmiaow - Play with me.

miaowmioaw - Have you noticed the shortage of available cat toys
in this room?

mioawmioaw - Since I can find nothing better to play with,
I shall see what happens when I sharpen my claws on this handy
piece of furniture.

raowwwww - I think I shall now spend time licking the most private
parts of my anatomy.

mrowwwww - (only heard in males) I am now recalling, with sorrow,
that some of my private parts did not return with me from that
visit to the vet.

roww-maww-roww - I am so glad to see that you have returned home
with both arms full of groceries. I will now rub myself against
your legs and attempt to trip you as you walk towards the kitchen.

mmeww - I believe I have heard a burglar. If you would like to go
and beat him senseless, I shall be happy to keep your spot in the
bed warm.

gakk-ak-ak - My digestive passages seem to have formed a
hairball. Wherever could this have come from? I shall leave it
here upon the carpeting.

mow - Snuggling is a good idea.

moww - Shedding is pretty good, too.

mowww! - I was enjoying snuggling and shedding in the warm clean
laundry until you removed me so unkindly.

miaow! miaow! - I have discovered that, although one may be able
to wedge one's body through the gap behind the stove and into
that little drawer filled with pots and pans, the reverse path is
slightly more difficult to navigate.

mraakk! - Oh, small bird! Please come over here.

ssssroww! - I believe that I have found a woodchuck. I shall now
act terribly brave.

mmmmmmm - If I sit in the sunshine for another week or so, I think
I might be satisfied.
Marina - 18 Nov 2005 14:36 GMT
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> For those of you who are experiencing difficulties communciating
> with your feline, this list will help you understand his/her
> language.

Wish it were that simple. BTW, Caliban has started to talk quite a lot.
He was completely silent the first couple of months. I suppose it's
because I talk to the cats all the time (at least that's my excuse; I'm
not talking to myself, I'm talking to the cats), and he has figured out
that he'd better keep up his end of the conversation. He has a very soft
voice, unlike Miranda's shrill, desperate-sounding peeps or Frank's deep
throaty yowls.

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Kreisleriana - 18 Nov 2005 16:18 GMT
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>voice, unlike Miranda's shrill, desperate-sounding peeps or Frank's deep
>throaty yowls.

Both my boys are great talkers!  Stinky always was, of course.  

When I-- really my mother-- first noticed Dante in the shelter, he was
sitting at the front of his cage yelling insistently, "MEOW.  MEOW.
MEOW.  MEOW."  etc.  in a very high little voice.  

I just assumed it was because he was in a cage.  I was wrong.  He does
this A LOT. ;)    

He plays with almost all his toys at the same time.  When he loses
one, off he goes.  "MEOW.  MEOW.  MEOW.  MEOW.  etc. "    I am
supposed to do something about this. ;)

Theresa
Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh
My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com

Make Levees, Not War
Christina Websell - 18 Nov 2005 18:30 GMT
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> one, off he goes.  "MEOW.  MEOW.  MEOW.  MEOW.  etc. "    I am
> supposed to do something about this. ;)

Well, of course ;-)
I have mentioned before that Kitty FC doesn't seem to be able to miaow.  If
I speak to her she will always acknowledge me by opening her mouth:  it
looks like she thinks she's miaowing but she isn't or at least not that I
can hear.  Very occasionally a small noise will come out, like éh, ìe.
She can make that sound that cats do to another on their territory, that
threatening up-and-down wowlie noise and if she fights she yowls and
screeches so much you could hear her a quarter of a mile away, I swear!
Somehow there is no miaow though - I have to hang an old apron on the handle
of the kitchen door so she can let me know when she wants out.

Boyfriend isn't noisy either, although he has a fairly robust miaow.    He
saves it for emergencies though, like" have you not noticed that I don't
like the duck & game flavour pouch and my dish seems to be full of it?"
And occasionally at 6.30 a.m. on a Sunday outside my bedroom door  "have you
overslept, is this a workday??!"  He also uses his voice to tell me if he
would like to go out for toilet duties, or rat patrol so I will open the
door for him, and again when he wants to come back inside.
I was talking to someone at work today.   She has an indoor Bengal kitty and
was describing his recent behaviour.  She got up this morning and found he
had opened the fridge in the night and got some food out on the kitchen
floor and what was still inside the fridge was spoiled of course.  She said
also that when a friend came in to her house while she was out, about a week
ago the friend called her on her mobile phone and asked if there had been
some sort of emergency that day.  She said "No, why?"   Her friend said "it
looks like you dropped everything all over the kitchen and ran out, that's
why!"
It was the cat.  He trashed the kitchen. Opened all the cupboards, swept
things onto the floor, eggs all over the floor from the fridge..
I have my own ideas about this but I would like opinions from you all about
why he's doing it.
If he'd been a dog, I would know what to say and advise, but as he is a cat
I don't have a clue.
If he *had* been a dog, I would say he had separation anxiety.

Tweed
Christina Websell - 18 Nov 2005 18:43 GMT
I fort yoo mite be sayin you dint understand wot I say.  I glad dats not it.
Boyfriend

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> mmmmmmm - If I sit in the sunshine for another week or so, I think
> I might be satisfied.
 
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