The mating call of cats scared me

dear professor, you probably were not listening to their language. what you heard were cries and responding cries. but if you happened to listen well you will hear the male cat saying "nowwwwwwww!!!" and the female cat says "not nowwwwww!!" so next time you hear, do listen well. and you will say ann is a very keen observer. cheers! ann

Oh yes, the screeches of cats mating - rather scary, eh? This actually reminds me of my childhood nights. We didn't have any cats, but our neighbors did. And for some reason they would walk on our backyard walls and "do their thing" somewhere back there. My sister and I would be woken up by these loud cat screeches - which DOES sound like a baby crying in agony - and sometimes it seemed it would end in some sort of cat fight. It lasted long enough sometimes that we couldn't go back to sleep!! Now that I have my own family, we still do not have cats, but our neighbors downstairs did. Once and a while, they'd go directly to our other "below" neighbors' patio to "do their thing" (they didn't have cats) and we could hear every bit of it. Sigh. Why don't cats do it in their own place - why do them seem to have to go bother some other territory??? Anyway, that neighbor moved, so we haven't heard the crazy screeches since.

There were some cats in my old neighbourhood that used to like to mate under the neighbour's cars at night. There was no way I could sleep with the window open, because their noises would keep the whole family awake all night. Once I got tired of the noise, and turned the hose on them. LOL Sadly, they were back the next night.

haha, its really funny, eh.. our neighbors have several cats and they are always at their rooftop making all sorts of noises! :D arghh there are a lot of times that we can't really sleep because of the noise!

There are a lot of wild cats around our house and we have had the opportunity to hear this sound and it really did disturb me at first because it isn't a sound that I was familiar with at all. I've been lucky though in that I have never heard the sounds of cats mating and had it wake me up in the middle of the night. That would be something that would probably scare me and also make me very upset all at the same time.

Hi Proffesor2010!. I don't like hearing a sound of cat when mating. They usually get up into the roof and making that sound. There are so many wild cat around my house. I hate it most when they do that in middle of the night and bother my good night sleep. I usually bring water and spray over them so they will stay away from my house.

yup I have heard that call and nope didnt scare me

hi professor oh yes often and it never ceases to worry me at first that a child is being abused only to realize its' two cats in heat doing their thing. As I understand it it is a rather painful ritual for the female cat and it is her that does the screaming. Yes at first its scary as it sou nds like a human baby in trouble. he

There is a big temple next to my house and there has been a cat there for a very long time.Not one but one after another. I have lost count of the number of cats that have occupied the temple premises for their generations. Caterwauling, or the cry of the cat is very common thing and i have been hearing this uncanny and eerie sound for many years espcially during the night.The mating cries of cats resembles a baby crying and initially i was caught off guard thinking that some baby was crying loudly. Later on i realized that this sound was made by 2 cats mating.At night it really sounds fearful but by now i have got used to it and it doesn`t bother me or anybody in the building where i live.

Oh yes, I have heard it. For quite a while I had no idea what was happening and I thougt an animal was in really bad trouble. It worried me a lot and as it was in the middle of the night I was scared to go out. I couldn't go back to sleep either. I wonder of lions, tigers, etc., big cats make the same kind of noise. If so, can you imagine how loud and scary that would be?

haha I used to hear this 'mating call' when I was living in the province (rural area). These cats really annoyed me when I was a kid because they always kept me and my brothers awake all night! Because of them, we would always be late for school the next morning. I remember even chasing one of those cats when I couldn't review for exams because of their irritating noise.

i've heard this once and at first i thought it was my cats fighting,until i mentioned it to a friend and she said it was them mating,i was shocked,it was sooo loud

Haha, I've heard of this a thousand times. A lot of cats were always banging, fighting and mating in our roof. I already memorized that sound when a male cat is in heat. Yeah, it sounds like human being, most sounds like baby crying. There were times I got scared when I heard a cat sounds. I thought it was a ghost, they often do that in midnight.

oh yes. living in a flat by many houses and flats around, there's many stray cats around here and from time to time when it'd be their mating call specially in March and in summer time I hear lots of them hawling outside in late hours like 2 or three in the morning, so I'm used to that and have never been scared as I know where the noise is coming from. Even having two male cats myself they do hawl from time to time in these days when it's their mating time, so sometimes they'd wake me up in the middle of the night, but thankfully they're not very loud and usually stop it after a fe meow's lol

Yes, I have heard the mating calls of cats many times before, and they can sound eerie and most ghostly, like to beings have a conversation in a strange language sometimes. _Derek

Hi professor, That sounds quite weird i agree. At one time i almost felt like there was some baby crying in the bushes outside, late at night. LOL. Most the time you can make out it's a cat but i swear that time it was sounding quite human. If you ask me if i can bear a dog crying or a cat doing (whatever) i would go for the dog's cry.. Mostly because they are distant and thinking people say it brings bad luck really makes me think about it and get excited for nothing.