There’s a cat in my apt complex. Many cats, but this one often looks unhappy, disheveled. Terrible owner. Whenever we pass each other, he gives a plaintive meow. Every so often, he tentatively accepts skritches behind his ear.
So, out for walks, random places, whenever I see this cat, I meow. And he meows back. I meow again, he meows back. Never had a cat do this. It’s like he’s talking to me, we’re having a conversation, I just don’t know what he’s saying. Wish I did.
And he meows back. I meow again, he meows back. Never had a cat do this.
That’s pretty much what I experience with all cats in my family. In particular, depending on what they want, my cat always answers in specific tones, or particular frequencies, or with different numbers of vocalizations - I’m confident I can understand most of them, by now. My name in cat-language seems to be two quick high pitched “mrows”.
They might have them, but they only use a few.
Nah, cats are super expressive - you just actually have to learn what their body language means, instead of assuming it’s the same as ours.
There’s a cat in my apt complex. Many cats, but this one often looks unhappy, disheveled. Terrible owner. Whenever we pass each other, he gives a plaintive meow. Every so often, he tentatively accepts skritches behind his ear.
So, out for walks, random places, whenever I see this cat, I meow. And he meows back. I meow again, he meows back. Never had a cat do this. It’s like he’s talking to me, we’re having a conversation, I just don’t know what he’s saying. Wish I did.
That’s pretty much what I experience with all cats in my family. In particular, depending on what they want, my cat always answers in specific tones, or particular frequencies, or with different numbers of vocalizations - I’m confident I can understand most of them, by now. My name in cat-language seems to be two quick high pitched “mrows”.