What affects us affects cats
Curious web surfers are interested to know the Siamese word for cat. Well, the Siamese language is today the Thai language. The English spelling of the Siamese word for cat is: Mæw. This looks very like ‘meow’ or ‘miaow’, the classic domestic cat sound used by our beloved cat companions to demand something from …
It all depends upon the type of meow your cat has and this sweet cat has the perfect meow to say ‘hello’ when he returns home from work as the video illustrates. So nice to be greeted like that. Only cats can do it. The video is very, very short…. Sometimes (frequently!) embedded videos …
The supposition that a domestic cat picks up the regional dialect of his owner sounds plausible but is currently under investigation in a Swedish study. We know cats learn through observation and cat owners in different parts of the world describe their cat’s vocalisation in different ways. Perhaps the cats are vocalising differently because …
A person emailed me with the above question. My initial response was to tell him that you have got to know how much your cat meows normally before you can decide whether he is meowing more than normal and therefore “so much”. Then there is the person’s expectations… Vocal Cat Some cats are more …
Bradshaw in his book “Cat Sense: The Feline Enigma Revealed” writes that cats can modify their meows to suit different situations. Some meows he says coax us to do something while others are more demanding and urgent. These variations of the meow are accomplished by varying the duration and pitch. Sometimes the meow is …
