It looks like it's gray - does that mean it's a cross between Ceiling Cat and Basement Cat?
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lol, middle cat? Puuuurrrgatory cat?
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Originally Posted by beyeajus74018
lol, middle cat? Puuuurrrgatory cat?
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After watching several such videos, it seems to me the kitty 'nom nom' is a territorial growl warning you to back your darn hand/camera away before it gets bit.
Cute.
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Originally Posted by Zombie Man
After watching several such videos, it seems to me the kitty 'nom nom' is a territorial growl warning you to back your darn hand/camera away before it gets bit.
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If you smooth a cat when it's a kitten, while it's eating (and do it every time) they'll not mind you being there.
Both my cats never growl (or make those sort of noises) when you smooth them while eating.
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Originally Posted by Zikar
Indeed.
If you smooth a cat when it's a kitten, while it's eating (and do it every time) they'll not mind you being there. Both my cats never growl (or make those sort of noises) when you smooth them while eating. |
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cat smoothies? now that's something I don't think we've seen on Will It Blend? yet.
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cat smoothies? now that's something I don't think we've seen on Will It Blend? yet.
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oh god hahahahahahahaha
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Originally Posted by Zikar
Using your hand might be a better idea.
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That IS a growl, and cats give it out in a lot of situations, largely when they're upset, annoyed or threatened. It comes out in pulses from this one because it's using its throat to growl and eat at the same time. Most times a cat is talking and people think it's cute, it's actually a growl or a hiss, or even a mating call.|
Originally Posted by Zombie Man
After watching several such videos, it seems to me the kitty 'nom nom' is a territorial growl warning you to back your darn hand/camera away before it gets bit.
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I remember playing one of those talking cats to my old cat, and he just jumped up and went looking around behind my speakers, clearly upset.
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Ah, there we go: this video. The first cat apparently saying "hello" is making an actual mating call that my cat responded to. I keep hearing them do that at night in the summer, and it's the most dreadful wail. They actually sound like little babies crying in a loud voice. I never found it funny, myself. And the cat saying "Oh Long John" and so forth is actually in a territorial confrontation with another cat, trying to intimidate it.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Also find it quite interesting because my current cat actually had to learn to mimic the meow from the two other cats (one died at the ripe old age of 24 and the other moved with my mother when my parents divorced and split up to keep her company).
He hasn't actually mastered it...and never will. The eldest cat at the time had developed the 'old man meow' as I liked to call it. It sounded like the cat saying "Oh Long John" in Samuel's video but lower pitch and more like a grumble while the second eldest female cat had a petite, very femimine, mew.
When we first got our current cat he never meowed, only mewed, apparently he never had to, he had been an old ladies lap cat and got fed just by wandering up to his bowl. So one he's now in a house with two other cats, he picks up that in order to get out attention and get fed he has to meow.
So instead of the standard cat meow he instead developed this long, drawn out, breathy mew to the point where sometimes he doesn't make a noise and just breaths heavily at you or resorts to a short, sharp, high pitched mew.
Also cats are evil and studies show they domesticated themselves for their own benefit, not humans..
When one of my old cats was a kitten, it picked up a piece of hotdog (that was almost as big as itself) and just sat there in the corner with it in his paws, just making that noise. It didn't even try to eat it.
It was so adowwable!
One of my cats doesn't meow so much as go "Myaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" and "Ooouw!" when he want us to pay attention to him... and he will not shut up until we do (he usually either wants to go out or be fed).
He also trills and will often just open his mouth making no sound except his lips parting, he usually does this when he's resting and we get his attention somehow.
I'm pretty sure that some cat behavior is learned. I have a relative that insists on only owning one cat at a time. (She lives in an area with a high owl and coyote population, so despite all precautions they still tend to only last a year or two.) The last three all have what I've started to call "only kitten syndrome." They want to play, but since they don't have another cat to give them signals they can recognize, they don't have any idea what the distinction is between playing and shredding. If a kitten plays too roughly with another kitten or adult cat, the victim can growl or bite back and expect for the message to be understood. People... not so much. So even interacting with these cats is risky, because it's likely at some point they *will* hurt you. (Or possibly all three were just completely evil. Since they are cats, I can't discount that possibility.)
As far as vocalizations, I've noticed that some cats do actually "converse" with people after a fashion. I know one cat that has makes different sounds when he's attempting to interact with people. This sound means his food dish is empty *and* he's hungry. That sound means he feels the litterbox needs to be cleaned. The other sound means he wants you to open the door. If he makes a given sound and you start to follow him, he will lead you to what he feels needs attention, and the associated sound is remarkably consistent. My cousin hadn't noticed it until I pointed it out. (I was house sitting for a week, and the cat was part of the deal.) So it's not a case of proper housecat training.
On the other hand, when I was growing up we had a nearly feral barn cat that had about four sounds he would bother to make around humans. A standard meow, which seemed to indicate that he was aware of your presence. The "don't touch my food" growl, which he applied to everyone except me who came within twenty feet of his dish. And a much more aggressive growl that indicated you had about five seconds to stop what you were doing and leave, normally applied to anyone besides me who tried to pet him. And in one case, to a neighbor kid who thought it would be funny to roughhouse when I didn't wish to. (As the one who refilled the food dish and handed out treats like bits of raw liver, the barn cats seemed to consider me to be, if not an honorary cat, then at least "mine!" and worthy of protecting.) He would also purr when he permitted me to pet him, but he did so quite roughly and erratically. Someone else who heard it commented that it sounded like the cat wasn't quite sure *how* to purr. Given the cat's personality, it's also possible that he had merely been injured somehow in a fight with something.
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This was true of a cat I owned for a while when she was a kitten. Eventually I got so sick of her biting my hand I grabbed her paw and nipped it a little (she nailed me good and drew blood and I was a little upset). The cat said "MEW!" really loud then looked a little confounded, but didn't bite me hard when playing after that.|
Originally Posted by ShadowsBetween
I'm pretty sure that some cat behavior is learned. I have a relative that insists on only owning one cat at a time. (She lives in an area with a high owl and coyote population, so despite all precautions they still tend to only last a year or two.) The last three all have what I've started to call "only kitten syndrome." They want to play, but since they don't have another cat to give them signals they can recognize, they don't have any idea what the distinction is between playing and shredding. If a kitten plays too roughly with another kitten or adult cat, the victim can growl or bite back and expect for the message to be understood. People... not so much. So even interacting with these cats is risky, because it's likely at some point they *will* hurt you. (Or possibly all three were just completely evil. Since they are cats, I can't discount that possibility.)
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Originally Posted by eltonio
This is over the top mental slavery.
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This is true. Cats also use different body language with humans than other cats. When greeting a human they know, a cat will do a little dance, but when greeting another cat they know (and are friendly with), they nod or bob their head twice.|
Originally Posted by ShadowsBetween
As far as vocalizations, I've noticed that some cats do actually "converse" with people after a fashion. I know one cat that has makes different sounds when he's attempting to interact with people. This sound means his food dish is empty *and* he's hungry. That sound means he feels the litterbox needs to be cleaned. The other sound means he wants you to open the door. If he makes a given sound and you start to follow him, he will lead you to what he feels needs attention, and the associated sound is remarkably consistent. My cousin hadn't noticed it until I pointed it out. (I was house sitting for a week, and the cat was part of the deal.)
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We had a cat who would also make specific complaints about his food dish, but in his case it was when the dish got below what he considered the minimum acceptable level of food. He'd complain, lead us to the dish, which would be half full, but he'd make us fill it up all the way. Once filled, he'd inspect it carefully, then casually stroll out of the room. He did the same thing with his water bowl.
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Originally Posted by eltonio
This is over the top mental slavery.
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It depends on the cat as much as on the what it has learned. I've had cats who would scratch and bite me with no remorse despite any amount of negative or positive reinforcement, and I've had cats who never drew their claws with me at all. It's basically something you can tell from a very early age. Some kittens will instinctively start playing with claws and teeth, others will only use paws. My last cat was pretty strong in the arms, but outside of freak occurrences, he never clawed or bit me at all. He was very good at telling play from serious business. In fact, he learned to listen to me pretty quick, to the point I didn't even have to yell at him. Some cats are arrogant, they do whatever they want as long as they can get away with it. This guy, though - he'd do something bad a couple of times, scram as soon as I yelled and then eventually just stop doing it.|
Originally Posted by ShadowsBetween
I'm pretty sure that some cat behavior is learned. I have a relative that insists on only owning one cat at a time. (She lives in an area with a high owl and coyote population, so despite all precautions they still tend to only last a year or two.) The last three all have what I've started to call "only kitten syndrome." They want to play, but since they don't have another cat to give them signals they can recognize, they don't have any idea what the distinction is between playing and shredding. If a kitten plays too roughly with another kitten or adult cat, the victim can growl or bite back and expect for the message to be understood. People... not so much. So even interacting with these cats is risky, because it's likely at some point they *will* hurt you. (Or possibly all three were just completely evil. Since they are cats, I can't discount that possibility.)
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But then there are these odd instances where he'll take you to a blank wall and meow at it, and I could never get that. I'm not sure if it's just a case of me not understanding or there being something there I can't perceive (cats have amazing hearing and sigh), or if the cat is just eccentric. For instance, my last cat kept wanting to go out into the stairway, somewhere he had never been allowed to go and had no reason to want to go. I don't think he had any reason to believe that was a door there, but he kept wanting to. He'd always exist through the first floor balcony, so he should have known that was his "exit." So why keep insisting to go into the stairs? I suspect he may have smelled another cat under the door.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Kind of a derail but also kid of on-topic:
What do cats do when home alone?
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22% - Looking out windows
12% - interacting with other pets
8% - climbing on chairs or kitty condos
6% - sleeping
6% - looking at a television, computer, DVDs or other media
6% - hiding under tables
5% - playing with toys
4% - eating or looking at food
I know that's not 100%, but that's all the numbers in the article. Still quite interesting though. What's up with "6% - looking at a television, computer, DVDs or other media"? Are the cats looking at the devices/discs, or did "their human" leave something turned on for them to watch?
They need to keep track of what we humans are up to if they're going to take over the world.
I miss my cat...
Even my evil genius namesake has a soft spot for cats. I like dogs too, just...yeah
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GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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