Sentences with phrase «miaow for»

Volume is sometimes used for added emphasis e.g. a strident miaow for urgency, a gentle «brrp» for contentment.

Not exact matches

The familiar «miaow» is used mainly for communicating with humans as we are evidently too thick to understand anything other than kitten - talk.

Learning takes place when certain actions have positive consequences, for example, if a cat miaows when it enter the kitchen (with the true intent of alerting the owner to an intruder in the garden) the owner may think that the cat wants to be fed.

mew (soundless)-- a very polite plea for attention (this is Paul Gallico's «Silent Miaow» which is probably a sound pitched too high for human ears)

Rather than simply distinguishing a «feed me» miaow from a «let me out please» miaow we try to interpret some of these sounds as words and are remarkably good at self - deception, so if the «I want more grub» noise sounds a bit like «keow» we think our cat is calling us a cow for not giving it a big enough helping in the first place.