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Kuisse0002 - 04 Oct 2003 12:33 GMT

I know this sounds so silly almost ridiculous! but my cat - when she sees me in
the morning (she's at her friendliest and most affectionate - because its
feeding time!) and I'm cuddling her and petting her - she makes a sound which
sounds so much like she's saying a word - "wa - wa" and when I say "maaa-ma"
she also tries to repeat it! same intonation and emphasis. Its amazing and I
must try to record it. Is this at all possible for cats to try to imitate
sounds?

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Cindi - 04 Oct 2003 14:46 GMT

I think they do! and in reverse, when my cats says something to me and I echo
it back to her, she will keep saying it too... which I often think, I wonder
what she's saying and she thinks I'm a nutcase for just saying it back...

Cindi
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quick question and likes it a lot!

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Priscilla Ballou - 04 Oct 2003 16:00 GMT

> I think they do! and in reverse, when my cats says something to me and I echo
> it back to her, she will keep saying it too... which I often think, I wonder
> what she's saying and she thinks I'm a nutcase for just saying it back...

Ah, but you're not simultaneously positioning your ears and widening or
narrowing your eyes or taking specific stance positions. She's probably
thinking you're mentally deficient for not properly pronouncing it with
its accompanying body language!

Priscilla, who loves it when her cats trill

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-L. - 05 Oct 2003 02:35 GMT

> I think they do! and in reverse, when my cats says something to me and I echo
> it back to her, she will keep saying it too... which I often think, I wonder
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> who just visited this ng to ask a
> quick question and likes it a lot!

Welcome, and hope you continue to participate. :)

-L.

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Brandy?Alexandre - 04 Oct 2003 18:27 GMT

Kuisse0002 <kuisse0002@aol.com> wrote in rec.pets.cats.health+behav:

> I know this sounds so silly almost ridiculous! but my cat - when
> she sees me in the morning (she's at her friendliest and most
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> try to record it. Is this at all possible for cats to try to
> imitate sounds?

Kami doesn't do words, but she does inflections. You know exactly what
she's saying by the tone of her voice. She whines, grumbles,
questions, asks, refuses, and everything else. A lot of it she doesn't
even meow; it's a close-mouth comment.

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Kuisse0002 - 05 Oct 2003 00:14 GMT

>Its amazing and I
>must try to record it. Is this at all possible for cats to try to imitate
>sounds?

Judging from the replies - then its quite common that cats do make certain
sounds and I am not hearing things after all! Cheers!

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-L. - 05 Oct 2003 02:34 GMT

> I know this sounds so silly almost ridiculous! but my cat - when she sees me in
> the morning (she's at her friendliest and most affectionate - because its
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> must try to record it. Is this at all possible for cats to try to imitate
> sounds?

Yes. Mine says "Ma-ma" and "out" all the time, at appropriate times.
Sometimes he says "yeah". Seriously. If I say "Peewee, say ma-ma" he
says "ma-ma", plain as day. :)

-L.

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