cAT tALK

On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 13:45:54 -0400, "J J Levin"
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"CatNipped" wrote in message
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Ah, you're coming along fine, Grasshopper, you'll make a lovely slave once
your masters have chosen you.

"Grasshopper" sounds ominous. Don't cats EAT grasshoppers??

Only the slow-learners...

On 9/1/2011 1:17 PM, J J Levin wrote:
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On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:18:27 -0500,
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A comment on one of my videos made me stop and think. I carry on a
running dialogue with my cats, talking to them constantly. Ben is
always yelling downstairs "What? What did you say?" and I have to
answer, "Nothing, I'm just talking to Archer." It's always in a
high-pitched tone, not exactly baby-talk, but sort of like "Meow Chat"
in its grammatical errors.

How about you? Have any good discussions with your cats lately?

I find that they make lousy conversationalists. That does not stop me
from talking to them, nor them to me. I'm just never sure that we're
talking about the same thing, unless it's about food. Then we do come
to some agreement. I get them the food.


Funny, the same happened to me. I was at my daughter's, making breakfast,
and both her cats looked hungrily at the hard boiled eggs I was peeling. I
reminded them in no uncertain terms that (1) one of them does not like eggs
at all; (2) the one that does like eggs likes only the yolk, and she makes
little footballs from the white and then kicks it around; (3) they had
already received one treat that morning; (4) So what did they have to say to
all that ?

The reply was very unsatisfying. The one that doesn't like eggs continued to
look hungrily at the eggs. I gave her a tiny bit, and she promptly turned
her nose up at it. The one that does like eggs ate a bit of yolk and made a
little football out of the white and then kicked it around. They had no
reply to my claim that they had already been given a treat that morning
(their premise obviously being a diplomatic "deny, deny, deny, and he'll
think he forgot to give us our treat"). What did they have to say to all
that? Some vigorouns meowing, which I took as a protest against their not
getting more treats.

Jay


I think my cats do more talking to me than I do to them. Especially Sam.
He'll stare at me fixedly, meowing in different volumes and intonations,
as though he can't quite believe I don't understand it, and is about
ready to try telepathy, but that doesn't seem to work either.

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Cheryl

On 9/1/2011 6:31 PM, Cheryl wrote:
On 9/1/2011 1:17 PM, J J Levin wrote:
wrote in message
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On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:18:27 -0500,
wrote:

A comment on one of my videos made me stop and think. I carry on a
running dialogue with my cats, talking to them constantly. Ben is
always yelling downstairs "What? What did you say?" and I have to
answer, "Nothing, I'm just talking to Archer." It's always in a
high-pitched tone, not exactly baby-talk, but sort of like "Meow Chat"
in its grammatical errors.

How about you? Have any good discussions with your cats lately?

I find that they make lousy conversationalists. That does not stop me
from talking to them, nor them to me. I'm just never sure that we're
talking about the same thing, unless it's about food. Then we do come
to some agreement. I get them the food.


Funny, the same happened to me. I was at my daughter's, making breakfast,
and both her cats looked hungrily at the hard boiled eggs I was
peeling. I
reminded them in no uncertain terms that (1) one of them does not like
eggs
at all; (2) the one that does like eggs likes only the yolk, and she
makes
little footballs from the white and then kicks it around; (3) they had
already received one treat that morning; (4) So what did they have to
say to
all that ?

The reply was very unsatisfying. The one that doesn't like eggs
continued to
look hungrily at the eggs. I gave her a tiny bit, and she promptly turned
her nose up at it. The one that does like eggs ate a bit of yolk and
made a
little football out of the white and then kicked it around. They had no
reply to my claim that they had already been given a treat that morning
(their premise obviously being a diplomatic "deny, deny, deny, and he'll
think he forgot to give us our treat"). What did they have to say to all
that? Some vigorouns meowing, which I took as a protest against their not
getting more treats.

Jay


I think my cats do more talking to me than I do to them. Especially Sam.
He'll stare at me fixedly, meowing in different volumes and intonations,
as though he can't quite believe I don't understand it, and is about
ready to try telepathy, but that doesn't seem to work either.


I love cats who talk! The only reason that I've never had a Siamese
master is that I don't believe in breeding kittens when there are so
many waiting in cages at the pound for their lethal injections.

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Hugs,

CatNipped
See all our masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped

See the RPCA FAQ site, created by "Yowie", maintained by Mark Edwards, at:
http://www.professional-geek.net/rpcablog/

Email: L(dot)T(dot)Crews(at)comcast(dot)net

---MIKE--- wrote:
I talk to my cats but in my normal voice. I tell Amber how beautiful
she is and I tell Tiger what a good boy he is.

And what are they answering?

http://www.geartaker.com/product/shd...pa ign=minxin

Sjouke Burry asked:

And what are they answering?

Only purring!


---MIKE---
In the White Mountains of New Hampshire
(44° 15' N - Elevation 1580')

"Judith Latham" wrote in message
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A comment on one of my videos made me stop and think. I carry on a
running dialogue with my cats, talking to them constantly. Ben is
always yelling downstairs "What? What did you say?" and I have to
answer, "Nothing, I'm just talking to Archer." It's always in a
high-pitched tone, not exactly baby-talk, but sort of like "Meow
Chat" in its grammatical errors.

How about you? Have any good discussions with your cats lately?


I've always chatted to my cats. I make sort of sounds which (I hope but am
not sure) portray how I'm feeling or just chatty happy sounds. my cats
(and others) have responded and we have had many interesting
conversations, I think. They seem to like it anyway.

Judith

I talk to my cats, too, but I have to be careful about it. If Pickles is on
my lap and Waffles is in the same room, I can't talk to Pickles too much,
because Waffles gets jealous and makes Pickles get down.

Joy