A Michael Broad Blog
This is something a bit different. It is a first for me both in discovering a new way to talk to your cat and embedding an infographic from Canava. This infographic is embedded here. It’ll work as long as I have a Canva account. 🙀 Karina is one of many young, attractive, women signed …
Simon is her cat. He has a nice belly flap that flops from side to side when he races in from the garden after his mom – Girl Keaton – calls him in her very distinctive and customised call which is a modified yodelling-type sound for me. The woman has a strong voice. I …
For me, this is a little far-fetched but it is an interesting idea proposed by PDSA vet nurse Gemma Renwick. She thinks that cats might be perturbed when a person vocalises words containing the letter ‘s’ as the sound hints at the feline hiss which is a defensive sound to warn hostiles that they …
A study published in 2022 decided that baby talk with domestic cats worked in that cats respond to it when spoken by the caregiver but not a stranger. The study hints at the fact that cats like to hear baby talk and are very receptive to it but this is incorrect. The reason why …
My cat uses hand signals to communicate with me. Well, actual one type of hand signal which might be called a paw tap. It is very positive and its meaning is unmistakable in its context. Does your cat do the same thing? It is an alternative to and more specific than the vocal request: …
There’s a book on the market: “The Secret Language of Cats: How to Understand Your Cat for a Better, Happier Relationship”. The key to the title is that the language of cats is secret by which the author means it’s different and to many people a mystery. The book gets good write-ups but I …
Companion animal owners want to know what their pet thinks. They can find out through telepathy according to Nikki Vasconez but is this genuine? There appears to be an instinctive (primal) desire by many companion animal caregivers to communicate more profoundly. It can be done according to a former lawyer, Nikki Vasconez, who provides …
I’ve been thinking about the fact that people relate to their domestic cat companion as a child and as a member of the family but accept the fact that they can’t communicate with their cat as they would a child. If only we could communicate with language to our cats, how much better the …
