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Marina, Frank, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Nikki.
marina (dot) kurten (at) iki (dot) fi
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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