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I had a cat who would become upset if my mother and I were having a fight. She would immediately begin "yelling" at my mother and once scratched her. The scra
by at_a_remove 6y ago
I had a cat who would become upset if my mother and I were having a fight. She would immediately begin "yelling" at my mother and once scratched her.
The scratching was especially funny given the situation: we had a rug that kept getting moved, my mother was convinced that I kept moving it, when I had not. She kept arguing this, the cat came over, yelled, eventually scratched her when that didn't work, then annoyed with the situation, decided to sharpen her claws ... on the rug, pulling it out in exactly the direction the rug kept mysteriously creeping without my intervention.
That was just due to the luck of timing but it was very funny just the same.
- wreath 6y agoOh man thanks for the good laugh!
- clairity 6y agomy cat absolutely believes she can talk. she yells at me when she wants to eat, asks for reassurance and protection when she’s feeling uncertain (like during supervised outdoor time), seeks forgiveness when she’s feeling guilty, and scolds me when i’m off-schedule (especially around treats and playtime).
- wk_end 6y agoYeah - my conjecture is that cats understand that we’re somehow communicating by vocalizing, but obviously don’t understand the whole language thing, because they’re cats. They don’t really grasp any difference between their meows and human speech. My Siamese - a notoriously talkative breed - and I regularly have extended “conversations”. Especially with the whole pandemic stay-at-home thing, she’s become the centre of my social life. To an onlooker we undoubtedly look and sound utterly insane.
- clairity 6y agothat's cute! sometimes i mimic my cat's meows back to her, though she seems completely unfazed by that, as if i'm an american trying to speak french, and she just wants me to switch back to english so i stop embarrassing myself.