Singing with my cat

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.

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'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.