Humans are not so well attuned to understanding cat body language so cats also use a variety
of miaows to speak to their humans.
Most cat - owners, however, are aware that there are a whole variety
of miaows that differ in pitch, rhythm, volume, tone and pronunciation.
Not exact matches
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miaow and its successors will continue.
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of hard evidence, I decided to try to sort the facts from the frenzied speculation (see «
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The «
miaow» and purr are just two
of at least thirteen different categories
of sound made by cats: caterwaul, chatter, chirrup (chirp), cough - bark (rare in pet cats), growl, hiss (with or without spit).
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Friendly chirrup and food - seeking
miaow are usually uttered in a raised tone
of voice while the low - pitched growl
of a cross cat is undeniably unfriendly.
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.
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.