Helping humans understand us - Meow for attention

Humans need help in understanding our meows. They don't realise that there is no easy answer to why or when we meow. Every cat is individual in the way we use this noise. 

Some of us are silent (go back to my earlier post.) We just open our mouths without any sound. Others meow for food (see the post before this one.) Some meow loudly. Some meow with a croak. 

And some of us use a meow to wake up our humans in the morning so that we can get our breakfast. We don't like to let them sleep too long.

This is Freya waking up her human, by putting her face close to the human face, and making a somewhat croaky meow (which is how she meows usually).  

Not only do our humans need to listen to our meows.. they need to understand what we are saying. So where and when we meow is as important as how we do it.

So listen up, humans. Understand. Obey. 

 

• The playlist of what cats are saying is on my Youtube channel under Celia's name is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMH0Q-3hEcw&list=PLnwXtI1uuo884ABEOTorPYZNnIeTh04pV 

 

 

 

Helping humans understand us.... the meow request for food.

Most of us cats are NOT silent meowers. We do a proper loud meow that even stupid humans can hear.  

Dumb they may be, but even the dumbest of humans can understand a meow when it is a demand for food. We are loudest usually at breakfast, when we have had nothing to eat during the night. "Meow" mens "I am starving."

Here my Spanish friend, Josephine, is making sure that her human, serves her breakfast as soon as possible. You will notice that he is talking back to her - even if it is a bit of a grumble. And he seems awfully slow.

But that is the usual human response. They can't help it. they just aren't very clever. 

 

• The playlist of what cats are saying is on my Youtube channel under Celia's name is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMH0Q-3hEcw&list=PLnwXtI1uuo884ABEOTorPYZNnIeTh04pV