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How Vocal Is Your Cat?
I've had cats all my life and none of the ones I've had in the past have 'spoken' much,apart from if they were very hungry or accidently got their tale trodden on.
My current cat ( which I got 2 years ago from the RSPCA..she was 10 years old when we got her) meows almost constantly. I can even have a meowing conversation with her ![]() Is yours a chatty cat or the strong silent type? What do you think determines if a cat is vocal or not? |
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I've had cats all my life and none of the ones I've had in the past have 'spoken' much,apart from if they were very hungry or accidently got their tale trodden on.
My current cat ( which I got 2 years ago from the RSPCA..she was 10 years old when we got her) meows almost constantly. I can even have a meowing conversation with her ![]() Is yours a chatty cat or the strong silent type? What do you think determines if a cat is vocal or not? |
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My two boys are part silver tabby and horrendously vocal. They never stop! It's not just meows either, it's purrs and little brrups, and silent meows and a variety of noises....
I don't usually mind it when they come in at 3 am shouting all the way up the stairs. Just to tell me that it's raining, then I mind! |
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I've got a rescue cat and she is extremely vocal. I wonder if she may have been brought up with Siamese cats and learnt it off them!
Her latest idea is to sit outside my open bedroom and call me to go out to fuss her - a bit much at 4:30 am! ![]() Oddly when I met her at cats protection she only mewed once, at the sanctuary's own cat. |
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My little boy sings a lot like a Mogwai. It is very very sweet. He can't meow though.
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My cat Mac doesn't make a sound, i heard him meow once when he had his 2nd vaccination jab and once when i had to bathe him, he's been with me for 11 months and thats the only noise he's ever made....my cat pea meows in my face at 5am every morning, she gets louder and louder until either i get up and feed her or i pull her under the covers for a cuddle..and my cat cookie has a special meowing corning, she sits facing the wall and talks to it, she makes all these cute chirps and squeaks but as far as i can tell shes just talking to the wall
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One of my cats, Aubrey, is a siamese so he is incredibly vocal - he's almost always chattering away and will almost have conversations with you, haha. Super cute!
(Then the others are quite chatty too, although our maine coon doesn't meow very often at all) |
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I used to have 2 cats. Winnie was very vocal. We couldn't shut her up!
I wouldn't have had it any other way though, I loved her to bits.Bungle on the other hand isn't very vocal. Although she's become more so in recent weeks. |
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All my four are different:
The Ragdoll loves the sound of her own voice and will wail for hours sometimes - she goes into the bathroom to sit on the toilet cistern and yells at the wall. She also has a range of very cute chirrups when being stroked. My oldest mog really has never had a voice at all, just a whisper when she's hungry. However, she does have a 'car voice' which is completely different! The deaf mog is the noisiest of all the cats - it surprised me a bit as I wasn't sure she'd have a voice! She's got a wide range of noises that she uses at every opportunity... The last one just peeps when she wants something but has a whinging voice when she gets touched or picked up - miserable little tyke! |
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My girl cat rarely shuts up. She meows, wails, grumbles, chirrups, you name it. I've had vocal cats before but she is on another level completely! She's brilliant at communicating really, she makes it very clear what she wants and what mood she's in!
Her brother is a totally different story. He's absolutely silent up until he decides he wants something and then he'll shout the house down! He'll plop himself down in front of you and demand "Stroke me. Stroke. Me. STROKE ME! STROKE ME STROKE ME!" He's actually quite obnoxious sometimes lol. But once he's sorted then he goes back to being a proper gentleman again and you won't hear from him until his next "emergency"
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All my four are different:
The Ragdoll loves the sound of her own voice and will wail for hours sometimes - she goes into the bathroom to sit on the toilet cistern and yells at the wall.
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My female really tries to communicate. Pretty much non stop. My male only makes a noise at feeding time
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My cat is vocal and has got more so as he's got older. (He's just a regular British shorthair.)
If I leave the room for any time and pop back he "meows" a greeting. When I open the back door to encourage him to come in for the night he "meows" a "hello". We can get quite a two-way conversation going at times.
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Misty chirps and squeaks, but I'm not sure who he thinks he's communicating with. He uses the same patch of the garden for his loo and his visits there are accompanied by quite a bit of chat. He also chirrups at the garden fence before he jumps up onto the top.
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Had four cats in total thought my life. Only the current one is a non stop chatterbox. He's a black and white moggy.
The interesting thing was he didn't do it until the Burmese cat moved in next door. The Burmese spoke all the time and our cat started to copy. The Burmese is now long gone but our still has his chatty habit. I can also have a mewing conversation with him, although I have no idea what I'm saying! |
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love it littlebooties......
im exactly the same with my two sphinx's - both of them are very communicative and loving. the both adore human interaction and are very affectionate, loyal and full of personality. The youngest - has a call to check where I am in the house .... we echo each other ... until he then finds me. |
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Mine is going through a whingey phase at the moment. She shouts before she comes into the room and has a series of increasingly pathetic meows. I do feel for her at the moment - a black cat in this heat is not a good combination. I did wipe her down with a damp cloth earlier, but all I got was another pathetic mew. She is desperate to let off some steam as she has been unable to get out in this heat. All she can manage is a mew and flops on the floor. I think she is asking me to turn the heating off.
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My cat who is a ginger tabby (ordinary mog) has become more vocal as she gets older; she's nearly 14. She will often say "mo" instead of "miaow" and makes some really funny noises!!! For instance, she will say "mioh-oh-oh" with various inflexions, sometimes rising on the last syllable, as if she's asking a question!! Also if I answer her back, using the same tone with which she's "spoken" to me, she will look at me very puzzled. I wonder what she's trying to tell me!! It's very comical when we do have our little chats tho.
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My last cat Tabbitha could have cut a record she was that vocal! She was a right chatterbox and could never have done a sponsored silence!
The one I have now, Suki miaows now and again but the one thing we find frustrating is that she doesn't answer when we call her. Tabbitha would answer to her name, this one stays hidden in the corner and when you eventually find her, looks at you as if you are mad. Sometimes she opens her mouth to Miaow and nothing comes out, it's as if she has forgotten what she was going to do! |
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Whenever I let my cat in she meows at me. I always say Hello back.
So cute. In the morning when we let her in. She runs upstairs and meows constantly until someone gives her attention. I believe she does it to wake everyone up. If she wants food or water she will meow. Oh and she will never go down the stairs be herself. She will sit at the top of the stairs and meow until I walk down with her. She mainly wants me to walk her down. If anyone else goes down she will still sit there meowing. Love her. |
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At one time I had four cats and I always knew which one was yelling at me. Every cat I have had has a totally different call.
I am now down to one rescue cat and he is incredibly vocal... from the 5.am "get up and feed me" to the "I wanna treat" and lastly the cushion beside my keyboard in the evening when he wants strokes and doesn't understand why I need two hands to type. |
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I have two brothers one is really vocal but one hardly miaows but its a good job he doesn't because they have exactly the same miaow and it really freaks me out!!!
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Molly hardly used to speak and you would only get a little chirrup in greeting when she saw you.
Since she has gone deaf, she is now really loud, when she goes upstairs for her morning nap, you can hear her meowing loudly to empty rooms, l have even watched her doing this to the wall or into corners...no idea why. The worse time is, as soon as it getting light, any time currently between 04.30 and 06.00 she will come and yell at you to get up, it's relentless. You stagger downstairs, with her thundering down them ahead of you, where she sits at the front door waiting to be let out, she pops out for a quick sniff around. Comes back in for breakfast, and when you look around for her she's gone back upstairs to bed!. |
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I've had cats all my life and none of the ones I've had in the past have 'spoken' much,apart from if they were very hungry or accidently got their tale trodden on.
My current cat ( which I got 2 years ago from the RSPCA..she was 10 years old when we got her) meows almost constantly. I can even have a meowing conversation with her ![]() Is yours a chatty cat or the strong silent type? What do you think determines if a cat is vocal or not? But otherwise I think it just depends on personality, in the same way that some humans are quiet, and some like to talk a lot! I have had some cats who hardly make a sound, and others who talk all the time. One of my previous cats never really spoke at all for the first 7 years of her life, but that all changed as soon as a dog joined the household! The cat I have now talks a lot more these days, than she did when she was younger. |
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I have a Tonk...never shuts up...EVER! Also what I thought would be quiet, our British Shorthair...also never shuts up...cute, yes, but can drive you to distraction at times
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I wouldn't have had it any other way though, I loved her to bits.