Does Your Cat Every Say Thanks to You?

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Upscale - 19 Nov 2007 09:05 GMT

Whenever a door is closed at my place and my cat wants to get through, she
goes and sits by it and looks at me. If I'm not there to open it within two
minutes, then she starts mewing.

I did notice one thing though. When I open a door for her and right after
she goes through, I get a meep as a thank you, every time. At least I'm
taking it as a thank you. In cat language, she might well be saying "it's
about time you got your fat a.s over her and opened the door", but as far as
I'm concerned, that's just cat parlance for thanks.

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studio - 19 Nov 2007 16:40 GMT

The "meep" comment could also be translated as "good".
but I would say you could take the meep as a "thank-you" also.

But you're also right in that it is a comment, not a question or an
exclamation.

I would highly doubt the comment is so complex as the longer sentence;
"it's about time you got your fat a.s over her and opened the door"...

The "mewing" while she's waiting for you however could become any
of comment-question-exclamation catagories though depending on
how bad she wants your help.

Comment: "Please, or, Come" - open the door
Question: "Would you, or, Could you, come" - open the door
Exclamation: "You Need, to come!" - open the door

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Stan Brown - 19 Nov 2007 23:48 GMT

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 04:05:54 -0500 from Upscale <upscale@teksavvy.com>:

> When I open a door for her and right after she goes through, I get
> a meep as a thank you, every time. At least I'm taking it as a
> thank you. In cat language, she might well be saying "it's about
> time you got your fat a.s over her and opened the door", but as far
> as I'm concerned, that's just cat parlance for thanks.

Cat language is funny. They have no word for "fetch", for instance.

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