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Cat Forum / General Topics / July 2005Cat Responds to Whistling
I have a sure-fire way of making my cat come to me. She seems to respond when I whistle constantly for about 15-20 seconds. It's not the typical whistling that you would call a dog with, it's a high-pitched constant tone, a bit like one of those whistling kettles. She doesn't respond instantly either. For example if she's on the other side of the room and I start whistling, she'll ignore me for about 15 seconds and after that it's as if she can't resist any longer and comes over. This is the only thing she constantly responds to. Occasionally she'll respond to me calling her name etc, but only if she's in the mood. But with the whistling she can't seem to resist. I've never heard of this sort of behaviour before, does anyone have an explanation? Or is my cat just weird? :-) > I have a sure-fire way of making my cat come to me. She seems to > respond when I whistle constantly for about 15-20 seconds. It's not the [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > I've never heard of this sort of behaviour before, does anyone have an > explanation? Or is my cat just weird? :-) all cats are weird; it's a defining attribute. She hates your whistling and comes over to make you stop. pat I agree. My orange tabby appears immediately when people speak in loud, high pitched voices. She hates my yelling at TV set over a soccer game. When she comes, she is all business: ridged back, cocked head, looking like the devil herself and ready to pounce if I keep shouting. Needless to say, there has to be silence during a soccer game... Love to all, - Maggie's Mom. > She hates your whistling and comes over to make you stop. > > pat > I agree. My orange tabby appears immediately when people speak in loud, high > pitched voices. She hates my yelling at TV set over a soccer game. When she > comes, she is all business: ridged back, cocked head, looking like the devil > herself and ready to pounce if I keep shouting. When my cat comes over, she is all affectionate so I don't know know whether she likes the whistling or not. If she didn't like it you'd think she'd run away, or like yours be all aggressive or something. Strange that none of my other cats respond to the whistling in any way. My sister thinks it's some sort of slave call and that the cat was enslaved in a previous life.... >> I have a sure-fire way of making my cat come to me. She seems to >> respond when I whistle constantly for about 15-20 seconds. It's not the [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > >all cats are weird; it's a defining attribute. That's so true. >She hates your whistling and comes over to make you stop. makes sense to me. Sometimes the only thing mine responds to is when I pull her off whatever she's clawing that she shouldn't be. Then I take her over to her scratching post and put her front paws on it and she usually proceeds to scratch the hell out of as if she's getting her frustrations out at having been chastised for clawing the couch. This seems especially so because she seems to know she's not supposed to claw certain things and she usually doesn't claw them too hard - perhaps because she expects me to stop her, I dunno. Cat psychology is still very much a mystery to me. >pat When I was in highschool, I was in the marching band, and used to whistle the piece I was working on. Smokey my childhood cat would always come over when I reached a certain note, High C I think. . #2 of my current 6 responds no matter what I whistle.. although he also comes when I call (which is beyond bizarre since he is a very grumpy boy and once he gets to you he'll often give you the evil eye for calling him then leave) >I have a sure-fire way of making my cat come to me. She seems to > respond when I whistle constantly for about 15-20 seconds. It's not the [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > I've never heard of this sort of behaviour before, does anyone have an > explanation? Or is my cat just weird? :-) My cat does the same thing, lately she has been slower because she is 19 and a bit hard of hearing. >I have a sure-fire way of making my cat come to me. She seems to > respond when I whistle constantly for about 15-20 seconds. It's not the [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > I've never heard of this sort of behaviour before, does anyone have an > explanation? Or is my cat just weird? :-) All animals respond to commands the where trained from the beginning... all it is is training.. just like animal obedience schools train animals to respond to commands. >I have a sure-fire way of making my cat come to me. She seems to > respond when I whistle constantly for about 15-20 seconds. It's not the [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > I've never heard of this sort of behaviour before, does anyone have an > explanation? Or is my cat just weird? :-) >All animals respond to commands the where trained from the beginning... all >it is is training.. just like animal obedience schools train animals to >respond to commands. Dogs are pretty easy to train because they always value attention and snacks as postive reinforcements. In my relatively little experience with cats, they get in certain moods where they don't care for your attention and it seems that these moods are sometimes caused by your trying to get them to do something. And the only time she's ever been eager for food was when I found her and she was obviously hungry. She scarfed down a big slice of turkey that had past its expiration date (it was all we had in the office 'fridge). She does have a routine though when I fill her dish everyday. She acts very interested and usually jumps up on the counter where I set the bag and open it before pouring the food into her dish on the floor. Then she'll usually put her nose in the dish and walk away without touching it. It's as if she's saying, "Damn! That crap again.", but she always goes back later and eats it up. Anyway, I haven't figured out positive reinforcement for cats and you can only go so far with negative reinforcement. As I just said in anohter post, she does know what she's not suppose to claw and 90% of the time she doesn't claw those things, but she still does it, even when she knows I can see and hear her doing it. >>I have a sure-fire way of making my cat come to me. She seems to >> respond when I whistle constantly for about 15-20 seconds. It's not the [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >> I've never heard of this sort of behaviour before, does anyone have an >> explanation? Or is my cat just weird? :-) > I have a sure-fire way of making my cat come to me. She seems to > respond when I whistle constantly for about 15-20 seconds. It's not the [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > I've never heard of this sort of behaviour before, does anyone have an > explanation? Or is my cat just weird? :-) no not unusual... both my cats used to come when i whistled... i suspect it had something to do with how i used to call them when they were little... they equated the whistle with food... so it seemed to work for me...  SignatureKashia (*)(*) ---- "Oh Bother", said Pooh as he hid Piglet's mangled corpse....." |
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