Don’t think so. When my cat says meow she means “bring on the food pronto”
Yeah… My oldest cat makes different noises for different requests. Yowling near door to go outside, chirping near bowls for dinner, and little mews while following you around to be picked up. And I’m not really sure it’s an outlier case as the other two younger cats are starting to learn to do the same.
“hey guys look what I taught this idiot to do”
Older cats absolutely teach younger ones their behaviors. It’s no coincidence!
I’ve noticed that sometimes my cat will meow from the other room so I’ll answer asking what’s up, making sure to say his name, and he’s usually content with that unless he approaches me. 🤷♂️
Then you’re all like:
“You are approaching meee?”
Cue to the Stands appearing behind you two.
Yeah object permanence is not strong with mine either. She’ll go into another room, forget I exist, scream, I respond, she’s like, “Oh hey, you’re right where I left you!”
Tiny fuzzy airhead.
my cat loses it if she wakes up and can’t see me. I live in a studio. there aren’t a lot of “out of sight” options. at one point, there was just a screen between me, in my computer chair, and her, on the bed. we still did the whole call and response.
she doesn’t look for me, she just starts yelling until I respond.
Cat just checking in if you’re still alive
human responds “darn, can’t eat him yet”
“I’m alive, are you?”
“Yes.”
Heeeeeeeey. Hey. HEY!
Meoww
Meoww
Whenever my cats meow at me it usually means “I love you I love you!! (Please give tummy rubs (but not too many tummy rubs because then I will kill you))”
“Give me tummy rubs until I’m overstimulated! I’ll let you know when the time comes.”
“With extreme prejudice.”
Why does this keep appearing? Cats most definitely do communicate by meowing too. I’d really love it if our village cats didn’t chose the street out my widow a midnight as their debate grounds, shit’s loud af and I always have to climb out the window to break up the fight.
Yeah, you’re gonna wanna eat some catfood, chug a beer and huff some glue. It’ll make you feel really sick and then put you right out.
I have my doubts about that killing me. I’ll need something stronger.
and sometimes this sounds like a crying baby.
cats meows mimics crying baby to get our attention faster
The why do they immediately run away upon realizing a human is near by? Like I’m talking about strays here, they only gather outside my widow when there’s no one around and I’m quite in my room.
We always joke, wondering, “Is it cats or kids” when hearing screaming (like kids playing, or cats fighting). Sometimes, it really is hard to discern
Iirc, interpersonal communication between cats is done at a frequency that humans can’t hear, which is part of why they yell at us.
We have one cat with likely brain damage (he got super sick as a kitten) who tries to communicate with us on that frequency, so it looks like he’s silently meowing.
My cat is very nonvocal, i hear her meow maybe once a week and that is usually a fallback way to get my attention when nonverbal ways dont work.
this feels true but sometimes my cat makes such sad meows and I run over and go “oh my poor baby what’s wrong who hurt you”
I just yell “shut up slut” but it probably translates to “hi” as well
I’m fine with that.
If you think about it that entire diatribe was that person’s really long Hiiiiii!
I love it. My cat routinely walks through the room I’m in every 20-30mins giving me little chips along the way.
(duh)
— cat owner
There’s the little meows…but then there’s an entirely different “I’m hungry” meow.
And the “i need pets so bad out of nowhere that I’m in a crisis” meow.
Mine does a “Look at the huge turd I just dumped in the litterbox!” meow
And the “I don’t like being in a car and I don’t want to be put in the MRI machine” meow.
Heard a lot of those yesterday =/
I used to have a semi-outdoor cat. She could come and go from the basement through a cat door. That little shit knew where my bedroom was and every morning she would climb up on the shelf as high as possible and meow loudly as if to say, “Hey! Hey Dumbass! Are you gonna feed me or what!? Heeeeyyyy!”
yeah that’s because the little ones mean “hii” and the big ones mean “HELLO???!!”
“HEY! HEY HEY HEY HEY HEY!! I CAN SEE THE BOTTOM OF MY FOOD BOWL! HEY!! YOU HEARING THIS?? THE BOTTOM OF MY BOWL!! I CAN SEE IT!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT THIS???”
It goes both ways. I just leaned over and said “mrrow” to my cat, which she immediately responded to with her own “mrrrrow”.
