Talk To Your Cat
I am a pet lover but my choice of compnion is the fellines, I am a cat lover and as such I have read many books that are about felines and the one that I read written by Jean Craighead George, entitled, How To Talk To Your Cat,
impressed me enough for me to want to
share this with you. Sometimes it's best
to be able to communicate in our feline
friend's language, particularly when
they misbehave, so here are a few of the sounds a cat makes when trying to get
their point accross to us:
mew= a plea for care and/or attention.
mew (soundless)= the very civilized,
polite form of the plea.
meow= the somewhat more
demanding/begging form of the plea
MEOW!= a command to give care and/or
attention
mee-o-ow (with a falling cadence)= a
protest equivalent to a child's whine
when he has not gotten what he wanted.
MEE-o-ow (whined, with a shrill)= a
stronger protest.
MYUP! (a short, sharp single note)=
righteous indignation.
MEOW! MEOW! MEOW!= a panicky call for
help, as when the cat is being hurt or
disturbed in any way.
mier-r-r-ow (chirruped with a lifting
cadence)= the "hello" greeting, implies
intimacy when uttered with passion
You can give the following a try. You
have nothing to loose. This is called
back feet wipping and this is serious
talk to a cat and a call to scatter. You are making yourself very clear in your
command:
wipe your feet and stand broadside to
your cat, with your arms bent at the
elbow and make claws with your hands, do a little growl while you are doing this, you will see your cat bolt like
lightening.
I find that when they are doing
something they should not do this is the best for getting my point accross to my
cats.
This is their language, so it all should work, particularly the wipping of your
feet on the carpet or bare floors. This
wipping to them is called claw
sharpening and it's carefully observed
by cats. They usually read these
markings that are left behind on trees
or on the grownd, this is a sort of
communication signifiying hostility
because the back feet are used primarily
for vaulting the animal forward into
battle or tearing open the belly of an
opponent, when this is used it is
serious talk.
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