A Michael Broad Blog
The sparse Infographic that I have created and published above tells the story as to why domestic cats chatter when they are sitting on a windowsill looking outside through a window pane. The cat is unable to get at the prey animal, normally a bird or a mouse. Under these circumstances the cat instinctively …
The TikTok video maker asks: “What is it saying?” I think we need to get rid of the “it” in the sentence seeing as this cat lives with the video maker and they know whether they are male or female! Sorry about that. But it is much better to use the ‘he’ or ‘she’ …
I am not sure who first used the phrase “cat television” but I believe that it was Jackson Galaxy, the American cat behaviourist. It is a very appropriate and descriptive term because for the domestic cat who is confined to the inside of the family home, their television is the window through which they …
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. It is a staccato puffing sound. There may be some confusion because on the …
This is a video described as “Kitten Talks Too Much“. The cat is looking out of the window and chattering. This cat is not talking. The noise this cat makes is not a form of communication. Although we can’t see what she sees, it is very likely to be birds. She is doing the …
