A video went viral on Tik Tok a video-sharing social networking service. It purporedly shows a black domestic cat saying ‘hello are you coming?’ to her human companion. He is astonished. It is nice and charming but it is not … 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 →
On the Internet some cat owners ask: “How can I stop my cat meowing?” and I find the question rather strange to be perfectly honest. It implies that their cat is making too much noise. Although the question is about … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
Bradshaw in his book The Domestic Cat: The Biology of Its Behaviour makes the point that the vacalisations of the adult cat are developments “through some combination of culture and genetics” of the kitten mew (meow) which is used to … Continue reading →
Feline vocal language is universal. In the same way that music is referred to as the Universal Language, no matter what part of the world in which we live, the familiar sounds that cats make when expressing emotions are also … Continue reading →
By Elisa Black-Taylor Why doesn’t my cat Coral meow? I ask myself that question every night as Coral jumps into my lap for some quality petting time. I’d like to tell her story, and then I hope some of you … Continue reading →
When the domestic cat meows it is at us not other cats. I’d be interested to know if someone has observed their cat meowing at another cat. I feel it should be happening but personally, I haven’t seen it. Whenever … Continue reading →
Does your cat make incessant, meowing demands for food or something else that you find irritating? Bengal cats have a demanding sort of meow that is similar to the Siamese meow. It is general accepted that Bengal cats can be … Continue reading →
