Singing with my cat

One of my cats, Muriel came out to ask for her supper last night and meowed like the opening bars to spaghetti western music, so I answered her back with the next bit and we kept this up for a while, I thought, what we need now is a guitarist to play the  bass parts and a horse to do the huffing parts. Lol.

Anyone else sing or converse with thier naimal friends?

  • I've found male and female cats to be equally vocal, I think it helps if you talk to them when they're kittens. One of my old cats would say hello to me by name, he'd only use that sound with me and nobody else, but he would say hello to other people he liked.

    I had to stop listening to some kinds of music because the dogs would sing along with it, one of the dogs was a papillion who are known to be quite vocal, she had different barks for different people. If she heard my Dad on the phone or answer phone she'd give short gruff barks and more excitied ones for my Mum and would just go totally mental if she heard one particular friend.

    My other dogs have been gryhounds and a lurcher, they all "roo", there are plenty of You-Tube videos of them doing this i you've never heard it before, I used to roo along with them, I think it's thier equivalent to howling as it seems to be quite a social thing.

  • I don't blame you one bit. Animals are easy to converse with, it's humans that I struggle with Grin

    90% of my day is spent chatting with Elvis (my dog)... We have a lot of fun during together and I never feel uncomfortable when chatting with him. The only time it's a struggle is when he sings, he's not shall we say as gifted as Elvis Presley was. Howls a bit! Sorry Elvis!

  • Whenever an animal is present, I spend more time talking to them than any humans present

    Yup, me too, even with dogs (which in general I am not fond of/am scared of until I know them well). 

  • My boy-cat (Remus) has a musical purr, which I respond to in kind, but his meows are more a quiet “me…….ooo”. Always 2 syllables with a pause between. And, yes, I talk to both of them all the time.

    Luna has a more demanding and strident “miaow” when she’s hungry, but if she’s told it’s not lunch/tea/treat time yet, she does a dejected “ohhh”.

    Nothing so musical as a spaghetti western (I am so impressed!) tho Mum had a cat that could say ah-oh (sounded like hello) upon greeting us, and when she purred it sounded like she needed oiling.

    In the 20 or so cats I have known, I have found the girl-cats to have more variety in their vocalisations than the boys, but I would be interested to know if others find that to be true also.

     

  • Me too, it's fun moo-ing back at cows.

  • Sounds like fun, I certainly converse with animals although its a bit one sided but don't mind tbh, not sure about singing, probably have done it in my time. I quite like talking to animals in their language, like sheep, cows, chickens etc

  • Whenever an animal is present, I spend more time talking to them than any humans present.  Singing = rarely, but certainly not never!