Chatty cats

[SEL]

Home cat has always been talkative. When you open the outside door to let her in (catflaps aren't for princess cats) she has two distinct responses. One sounds like "thanks" & the other is pretty cross so must mean "that took too long". She also has a shout when she comes through the cat flap and doesn't know where we are. If I call back at her she shuts up.

Yard cat is the noisiest cat I've ever met. He has a repertoire of sounds most of which demand food or grooming. He makes his displeasure very, very obvious too! I'm on the yard on my own most of the time so we have long conversations..

 

[Alibear]

I love the chirps, mirps and trills my cats make. Poor Stripes started to yowl in distress at 3 am after we lost her sister to cancer. I stuck it out for 6 months as people said getting another cat wouldn't help. Then Pippin arrived and the 3 am yowling has stopped. Unfortunately, it's been replaced by Pippin trying to bite toes or any other available appendages at 4 am...
Pippin used to shout when he was worried he was home alone but that's lessened in the last few weeks.

 

[Caol Ila]

Our cats were very chatty. They would say, "Meow." Then you'd say, "Meow." Then they'd say, "Meow." This would go on for a while. I always wondered what the hell we were talking about. Do you think they knew?

 

[Cloball]

My OH replies to M in English and makes up whole bizarre hilarious conversations and M happily meows back, this can go on and on and gets more and more abstract.