What affects us affects cats
Plants Under Stress Emit Ultrasonic Sounds Detectable by Animals: Insights from Recent Research Plants have long been considered silent organisms, communicating primarily through chemical signals such as volatile organic compounds or root exudates. However, emerging research challenges this notion by demonstrating that plants under stress emit ultrasonic sounds — high-frequency acoustic signals inaudible to …
The Times of Saturday, January 29, 2025 has a nice article about the FluentPet HexTile System. I decided to investigate it and create an infographic which explains it. I’m told that thousands of animals from 45 countries including cats, rabbits and goats are participating in the world’s largest study of “button pressing pets”. This …
The ‘cat tap’ is a form of cat-to-human communication which impresses me and my cat employs it. What I like about it is that the cat devised this all on their own. They were not taught this effective method of catching the attention of their caregiver and what’s doubly impressive is that the cat …
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 …
A lot has been written and said about slow blink communication between cat and caregiver but it’s still ‘work in progress’, I’d suggest. The usual topic is that cats make the slow blink towards their human caregiver when they are content and relaxed. This is essentially one way traffic from cat to person, but …
Nikki Vasconez, 33, used to be a lawyer earning a good salary but she was miserable. She was working hard but simply didn’t enjoy life. She was too frightened, as many people are, to get out and do something else. She began researching how to communicate with animals in September 2020 and discovered a …
Intro: This is a guest post from Albert Schepis who has a vast amount of experience in living with domestic cats. I completely agree with Albert on this. Dog talk? How do you communicate with your cat? Pretty much like you would a dog, right? Wrong, sorry, or rather they read us a little …
In November 2020 I wrote about the development of this software. It is now on the market on Google Play as a downloadable smartphone app called Meow Talk. In summary, you will be able to translate your cat’s sounds using your smartphone which is the Holy Grail of translation services. I’m not sure that …
