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[-] [email protected] 97 points 2 years ago

Something I once read is that different cats don't seem to use exactly the same noise to mean the same thing, ie, one cat might use a certain sort of meow to show that it is hungry, but another cat might use a similar meow to show that they want attention. Further, that wild cats usually stop making many such noises after they grow up, but domestic ones keep using them to communicate with people. If this is true, then the cat noises don't really represent a cat language as such since each individual cat would have it's own different set of vocabulary it develops in an attempt to get humans to understand it, being forced to resort to being all dramatic and acting like a kitten to get their message across because humans are sometimes too clueless to understand their body language.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

I've got two cats who are sisters and they indeed have very different meows, not just sound but how they use them. One has a very distinct greeting meow literally only reserved for when she hasn't seen me in a few hours that is isn't in any way replicated by her sister.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Is it a "meep ippit urp rrr" kind of sound? Cause that's how mine does it.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

No its a very high pitched 'weeoooweeeeeee'. Her sister does more of soft mew followed by a brrp.

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