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I do this all the time to my cats. Sometimes the cat will trill back like "oh, got it", which is about equal parts interesting and cute.
by winrid 3y ago
I do this all the time to my cats. Sometimes the cat will trill back like "oh, got it", which is about equal parts interesting and cute.
- gnulinux 3y agoMy cat does this too! There is a "got it" flavored affirmative trill, and also a "come on!" flavored frustrated trill.
- Smoosh 3y agoThere's also the "you touched me" trill. Also the "oh, hai!" trill.
- jancsika 3y ago> Sometimes the cat will trill Might be at maximum "P," especially if it was darting toward you immediately preceding this. Next time try hanging some spinning pieces of catnip from your rafters to see if your cat can temporarily levitate in order to collect them.
- winrid 3y agoWhat?
- RetroHippyNimby 3y agoThis appears to be a reference to Mario's "P-Speed", which indicates that raccoon Mario is running fast enough to fly. Mario, when running at full speed, has a little trill audio.
- keithalewis 3y agoSlow clap. I mean blink.
- interlinked 3y agoLiterature says cats can't understand it when you point at something. That's because they don't have fingers. You can point at things using your eyes and they understand. One day I was eating some fruits and a stray cat came to me and started meowing. I gave it a piece which it rejected and started meowing again. I stared for a couple seconds at my plate and then at the piece on the ground and the cat looked like it understood and stopped meowing.
- gavinmckenzie 3y agoThis is interesting. I've had both cats and dogs, and with the theory "they don't have fingers" I wonder why do dogs understand human pointing? Dogs of course communicate with a direct gaze (looks at empty food bowl, looks at human, looks back at empty food bowl) and can understand us communicating back with a directed gaze, but at the same time my dog definitely understands me pointing at something.
- sph 3y agoDogs are not wolves. They have evolved to read and somehow become more like us. I bet a wolf can't understand a pointed finger, just like they can't read sadness on your face. A dog can do both quite easily. What's more fascinating to me, is that the relationship is not one-sided: we might have learned something from wolves as well. They have changed us, just like we turned aloof wolves into empathetic dogs. Maybe they have made our society more social, and less isolated? Wolves know there is strength in numbers.
- depressedpanda 3y agoMaybe cats in general don't understand pointing, but both of my cats do. One of them is quite intelligent, so I'm not surprised there, but even the stupid (but adorable) one gets it.
- 6stringmerc 3y agoThanks for pointing - ha - that out! It totally makes sense to use visual communication because of course no fingers! Made me chuckle because it seems obvious yet, no, gear shifting for cats makes sense.