My husband says my cat talks. Does your pet talk to you?
By kbkbooks
@kbkbooks (7022)
Canada
December 15, 2006 6:46pm CST
We have a male tabby cat who is very verbal. My husband swears that this cat says OUT and OW for a hungry tummy. When he asks this cat a question he says yell once for yes and twice and for no, and the cat actually answers him.
I have had a meowing conversation with a cat and there was actually a volley of yowls we exchanged. Sometimes I wonder if I was maybe saying something that I shouldn't have!
My dog definitely speaks to me with his eyes and tail and body and he touches me with his paws when he needs something urgently. Sometimes he makes a little moaning or whimpering noise.
Do you have conversations with your pets.
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11 responses
@kbkbooks (7022)
• Canada
4 Jan 07
LMAO dolly, I know what you mean. If I speak in meows or in dog sounds or any other animals and the animal talks back amicably, you start to wonder how they translate what you really said. I seriously worry about offending them by accident! Maybe you're right though, maybe all they care about is the weather.
@BunGirl (2638)
• United States
16 Dec 06
Oh yes! My German Shepherd Dog is very vocal. He comes over, puts his paw on my lap and just starts talking sometimes. "A-roo-roo-roo-roo-roo-roo!" It's the cutest thing! He also tells on my other dog when she's getting herself in trouble.
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@kbkbooks (7022)
• Canada
16 Dec 06
Yes, our cats tell us when the dog is getting into something and the dog tells on the cats. Also the dog and the cats can tell us when one of their "brothers" is wanting to go in or out and stuck on the wrong side of the door.
I once had a husky. They are famous for "talking". One evening the dog wanted to tell us he hadn't been fed so he sat down at the water dish and looked at us and made a long vocalization with many syllables, much like you wrote about with your german shepherd. It totally had a bunch of expression to it like, "Man, I am so disgusted that you didn't think about putting food in my dish, yet!" The whole time he was talking his nose was right up in the air swinging all back and forth in the most expressive way. It was hilarious.
@mari61960 (4893)
• United States
1 Jan 07
My munchkin cat is very vocal. It's funny cause our other cats are not at all. (see his photo in my profile)
My English Springer Spaniel..Winston was vocal too. When he wanted something like a treat he would look at them then look at me. When we would say "What, talk about it" he would start with " Arooo roo roo roo" too. It was very funny. It got so we could just say Talk about it...at anytime and he would start.. Poor Winston he was hit by a car while I was in the hospital. He was the best dog I ever had. The most caring and intelligent. See his picture in my profile also...he is wearing a pumpkin costume.. He loved to wear shirts and coats. I miss him terribly.
@birthlady (5609)
• United States
1 Jan 07
My friend had a cat named "Talker" and goodness, he talked up a storm! I had a kitty who talked alot too, when I'd talk to him he'd meow back, and the other way around, not that he'd talk and I'd meow, I mean when he meowed, I talked to him.
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@raghwagh (1527)
• India
1 Jan 07
Actually if you are attached with your pets and if your pets lives with you in your house then they learn many things.I have an experience of what I said.
I have three dogs in my house.One female, Rosy and two males.Once it was late for me to give them their dinner and my elde brother came from outside and Rosy was like complaining my elder brother for not being given dinner.She was making a signal to my brother to go to the room where we give them dinner.Thus pets do talk may be not by mouth but by actions.They also express their feelings as we do.
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@sylviekitty (2083)
• United States
31 Dec 06
I used to have conversations with my last cat, who was with me for almost 18 years. I would ask her a question, like "do you love me?" and she would give me 2 licks on the nose for "no". And 3 licks on the nose for "yes" (to correspond with the number of letters in each word).
I once lost something in the backyard of my mom's house. I picked up my cat and asked her to point her head in the direction of where it was. Call me insane, but she looked over in the corner of the yard. I walked over to the corner, and whatever it was I was looking for was there!
I "talk" to my cats all the time. They meow, and I meow back. It's cute. I don't care who thinks I'm crazy.
@kbkbooks (7022)
• Canada
1 Jan 07
My husband asks the cats questions and says "Yell once for yes and twice for no." To him, meowing is how they yell. So if he asks the dog a question and the dog barks once or twice I always say, that's how you tell them to answer. He claims the dog can't yell because he's not a cat. Of course he's yelling in dog language.
@StarSpottedHorse (48)
• United States
31 Dec 06
I talk to my cats all the time. I believe in animal comunicators also.
We rescued a pregnant female cat once. After the kittens were old enough to adopt out, I told both kittens, "If you want to stay here, you have to talk to the Daddy. We have 4 cats already and I don't want any more. That very night, the female kitten, who had never been on our bed before, climbed on the bed. Went to Steve, "Daddy" and licked him all over his face. Even went so far as to sleep on his pillow all night. If that is not an example of cat's understanding us, I don't know what is. To this day, DiAnna is "Daddy's little girl". Another example. Steve is hard of hearing. I told DiAnna she would have to meow loudly at him to get his attention. My BIG mistake. You can here her SCREAMING her meows loud and often at him when he comes home.
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@sedel1027 (17846)
• Cupertino, California
16 Dec 06
Our female cats when she wants me to play with her yowls something that sounds very close to "mom". Our male cat isn't very vocal. He like to paws at you for attention.
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@ausnikki (4054)
• Brisbane, Australia
16 Dec 06
I talk to my animals all the time.I have one cat who is very responsive.If I ask her if she loves me she responds every time.I also have a kitten who loves to chat with me.She sits on my lap looking up at me meowing away for ages,she's so cute.
@hockeygal4ever (10021)
• United States
16 Dec 06
lol... is your hubby spending too much time alone?
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@kbkbooks (7022)
• Canada
16 Dec 06
This is second marriage for both my husband and I. He was alone for a few years before he met me, except for his daughter and his cats. His daughter would go out with her friends and also go out to work. He was working too, but I am sure there were many long evenings at home....you may be right!!
@smartbrain69 (2790)
• Canada
16 Dec 06
No cats can't understand our language nor we understand their language.
@kbkbooks (7022)
• Canada
16 Dec 06
Actually I think all animals that spend time around people for any length of time, whether as pets or in the zoo for example, learn to recognize certain parts of our language, and we learn theirs. There are definite intonations to their whines, barks, tweets and meows, and by paying attention we can learn what they are saying. Jane Goodall made this very clear in her study with chimps and apes.
@amit_sood (168)
• India
4 Jan 07
dear the dogs and the other animals have their own language some can understand and some are not who really loves the pets they can easily understand all things by their body shaking they dont have voice like people but the they have all other things of felling so never think that they can not understand or not have a humor they have some humor more better then us and some humor they dont have
