What noise does your cat make?

[Cloo]

I'm not sure all that many cats have a standard 'meow' - Vastra more generally 'trills', like a high pitched 'Mrrrr!' or 'Vrrrr!' sound, with the occasionally scratchy, quiet 'Ma-ow!'. She's been know to let out a big whiny 'MAOOOOOOW!' before seriously throwing up; I now know that's a warning sign of major chundering

I can't remember what sound exactly my last cat made, I think she just had really tiny, high-pitched 'Maow!'

 

[marty21]

She's only really vocal when she's about to vom , it's a meow/howl . If she jumps up on the sofa or bed , she makes a thurrup sound , quiet meows if she wants food or for us to open the back door (she refuses to use the cat flap, just stares at it and quietly meows until we open the door.)

 

[WouldBe]

Woof.

 

[May Kasahara]

IME the bigger the cat, the tinier and more comical the meow. Donut (huge) makes these really hilarious tiny squeaks, whereas Vivian (tiny) is constantly SHOUTING HER HEAD OFF FOR NO REASON. My childhood cat Ziggy was just like Donut - huge, hairy, tiny-voiced.

Both cats make the telephone noise when you stroke them from sleep or otherwise get their attention

 

[platinumsage]

Our cat speaks for various reason, but I've never known a cat who can express indignation so well just by miaowing. If you pick her when she doesn't want it, or push her away etc she'll say "Oi! Oiiii! What do you think you're doing" just by miaowing. She also growls like dog and gurgles like a turkey.

 

[Cloo]

Both cats make the telephone noise when you stroke them from sleep or otherwise get their attention

Yeah, Vastra gives a 'Vrrrp!' when you touch her

 

[bimble]

my favourite is the noise that happens when he's doing a yawn, its like a little satisfied mmump sound at the end.

 

[fishfinger]

Rik only miaows upstairs. He greets me when I get up, with repeated miaows. I talk to him and then after he's finished miaowing, he just purrs quite intensely.

 

[moomoo]

Woof.

This.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Woof.

species dysphoria?

 

[WouldBe]

species dysphoria?

No, it's a dog.

 

[pogofish]

She's only really vocal when she's about to vom , it's a meow/howl . If she jumps up on the sofa or bed , she makes a thurrup sound , quiet meows if she wants food or for us to open the back door (she refuses to use the cat flap, just stares at it and quietly meows until we open the door.)

With my one, that particular meow usually happens very early in the morning, usually between ten and thirty minutes before I’d like to wake-up and is more effective than any alarm at getting me up, on my feet and hoying her out the nearest window..!

And as for the food meow, don’t you mean quiet but becoming increasingly louder, more insistent and more frequent as you go past the time they want to be fed?

 

[Epona]

We get the chunder howl here too.

Being Oris, my cats are really vocal and wail/yowl a lot to us

Radar used to make little chirping and trilling noises and the occasional squeak - he was a vocal kitten but lost his proper miaow when he was very ill at about a year old.

 

[Cloo]

pogofish - my childhood cat used to make that noise and wake me up around 6am. It was quite spooky, sort of 'Mawoooooow! Mawoooooow!'

 

[seeformiles]

Lil’ Bob has a varied vocabulary from high pitched mewing to friendly trills, complex “Charley Says” style chuntering, pleasurable squeaks and even properly vocalising and mimicking “Hello”.
Vic just lurches from cuddly toy style squeaks when he wants food to a basso profundo growl if you attempt to take a dead squirrel from his (evil) clutches.

 

[WouldBe]

With my one, that particular meow usually happens very early in the morning, usually between ten and thirty minutes before I’d like to wake-up and is more effective than any alarm at getting me up, on my feet and hoying her out the nearest window..!

I hope you don't live in a 15th floor flat.

 

[oryx]

I don't know quite where to begin on this subject.

Zoe rarely shuts up except when asleep. She could moan for England. You can have a conversation with her, to the extent that I've thought of recording us and putting it on YouTube - except that she takes contrariness to whole new levels and wouldn't play ball. The best one is when I greet her first thing by saying 'Hello, Zo, are you alright?' to which she replies 'NO, I'M NOT'.

Paddy is mainly silent, just the odd little squeak and a noise like a malfunctioning central heating pump when he is about to puke. Except for... THE HOWL.

He howls at night every so often, for no apparent reason. He can be newly fed, biscuited, stroked, you name it, before we retire - then will suddenly start to howl like a wolf for no apparent reason.

 

[Detroit City]

My cat Tina makes this clicking sound when she sees some birds or small rodents that she wants to eat. But she’s an indoor cat which is bad luck for her

 

[Ax^]

quite Meow when he sees me and went i'm not stroking him which serious you have to do until are arm gets tired
and then he still look offended when you stop

 

[passenger]

I have noticed my Bonnie will meow to my friends she knows well, in a higher tone than
when she meows at me I must say this subject really interests me.

 

[scifisam]

Moonie very, very much sounds like she's trying to say hello when you say hello to her. It sounds like an old female eastend market stall holder saying ello.

When we first got her she couldn't meow at all - I think she'd been semi-feral or otherwise had little contact with humans. My old cat, Perry, was extremely vocal, and you could actually watch Moonie looking at him meowing at us and getting lots of food and attention and attempting to copy him. For about a year it was basically a hoarse chirp, like "I am making a sound."

Then she proceeded to an annoyed sound when you let her in the door when it's raining - she doesn't do it when it's not been raining, so it sounds like she's genuinely annoyed - and then to her attempt at hello.

 

[Epona]

Although cats make a range of noises naturally (chirps, trills, clicks, screams and screeches, yowls, growling, purring etc), miaowing seems to have come about as a result of domestication - they use that sound specifically to get attention of a human rather than to communicate with other cats or animals.

 

[Cloo]

My cat Tina makes this clicking sound when she sees some birds or small rodents that she wants to eat. But she’s an indoor cat which is bad luck for her

Oh yes, Vastra goes sort of 'Ek-ek-ek' when she sees birds. We now say things like 'look Vastra, an ek!'

 

[passenger]

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[donkyboy]

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[scifisam]

Oh yes, Vastra goes sort of 'Ek-ek-ek' when she sees birds. We now say things like 'look Vastra, an ek!'

Perry used to make that sort of noise despite seeing very few birds out of our windows in the old flat. Then we eventually heard some squirrels close up, and it was those he was mimicking. The squirrels loved our windowsboxes.

 

[BigTom]

Frida, rarely makes any noise except when she is playing with something, when she makes all sorts of noises:
Has a really loud, deep purr once you get her going.

Karl - Mews really loudly and whinily, when he's hungry or wants attention, and especially when he is trapped in somewhere before I take them to the vet or flea treatment. Purrs loudly pretty much just from touching him.

Rosa - mews when very hungry, but otherwise quiet. More likely to bat at your ankles/feet to get your attention. Has a deep purr.

 

[Cloo]

Frida, rarely makes any noise except when she is playing with something, when she makes all sorts of noises:
Has a really loud, deep purr once you get her going.

Ha, that made Vastra look around every time Frida let out a sound!

 

[Reno]

Apart from purring (and he's a loud and frequent purrer) , my favourite Alfie-sound is a low key 'drrrrd' which goes slightly up. I think it just means, "Hi, I'm here." He also meows insistently when he want something (different food, go out on the balcony, play)

 

[Orang Utan]

Perry used to make that sort of noise despite seeing very few birds out of our windows in the old flat. Then we eventually heard some squirrels close up, and it was those he was mimicking. The squirrels loved our windowsboxes.

They’re not mimicking squirrels, it’s just the noise the make when they see prey, esp when they can’t access it