Domestic cats don’t chuff. Tigers chuff. It is a form of communication made at close range and part of the tiger’s greeting behaviour. The tiger chuff is sometimes described as a ‘prusten’. I believe that they are the same sound. … Continue reading →
How do cats say meow in Chinese? What the question is asking is how people speaking the Chinese language say the word ‘meow’. Or the question could be re-written: How do you write and speak the cat sound ‘meow’ in … Continue reading →
Let’s just say that every individual cat has her/his own individual version of the classic cat meow and that this version is unusual and very, very cute. It is a feline quack. Lets hope (1) he keeps it into adulthood … Continue reading →
A group of scientists led by Katherine Young of King’s College London have come to the conclusion that the whining of distressed dogs are more emotionally affecting to humans than the pitiful meows of distressed cats. They recruited more than … Continue reading →
The news media have described this as caterwauling but I would not call it that because strictly speaking caterwauling is a vocalisation employed for long distance mating calls. This is a couple of male lynx in a standoff (face off) … Continue reading →
A short video on a loop of President Trump hissing like a cat. It’s all fake but it made me laugh. That’s all I can say.
Continue reading →At one time, in the long distant past, there was a theory that the cat’s voicebox had nothing whatsoever to do with purring. Experts argued that it was to do with the cat’s blood flowing through her veins into the … Continue reading →
Do cats purr with other cats? Or do they purr only with humans? I’ll get straight to the point: domestic cats do purr when not in the presence of humans and some wild cat species purr too. We normally associate … Continue reading →
It’s the sound of this cute bobcat kitten which interests me. He or she looks a little bit like a domestic cat but the sound she makes is definitely not the sort of sound that domestic cats make. It’s a … Continue reading →
This is a really nice example of a ‘cat speaking in tongues’, as Lori Dorn describes it, on the Laughing Squid website. This strange guttural yowl is often seen on the internet and it puzzles a lot of people. It … Continue reading →
