My boyfriend understands his cats. He talks to them and makes up songs and stories about what they are thinking. It's really cute, especially since he's a rougher kind of guy.
One of my cats is extremely demanding of affection. She'll start off meowing at you. If you don't pay attention it progresses to one paw on your arm and a meow, then standing on her hind legs and moving her front paws in the air, begging. She does it to EVERYONE. She did it to the cable guy when he came to hook up the cable. She's the older kitty, 13 now, and all fluffy and gray so she's pretty irresistable.
I totally communicate with my cats! Well one of them, anyway. We're very close. He waits by the door for me to come home from work, and after dinner comes to snuggle in my lap. My husband is so jealous, and has to settle for the other one, who is the fluffiest cat in the world but HATES being touched. He will cut a bitch. Between that and running after things that only he can see, we're pretty sure he's autistic.
I talk to my dog in French and English- it was a great way to do my language homework in school and it stuck. I don't really think he understands either, but he sure is a good listener.
My dad has convos with the dog, and its pretty hilarious. They also nap together, walk around the house together, etc. The dog is my dad's constant companion.
Another thing my parents do is put me on the phone with the dog. He does this adorable head cock thing (like that pug video, but with a massive head of a bullmastiff) when he hears my voice.
Oh man, Princessa and I totally talk to each other. She has a series of grumbles, and I know when she's playing, pissed off, scared or just generally making noise. I love my big furry baby!
My dog yawns and makes this crazy squeak noise, like a meow or "yeeooww." She also sits in this low to the ground tree in my backyard and kills birds on the regular. She communicates with me just fine, she wants something, I get it. I'm her bitch. I find her non-dog like independence terribly adorable and enduring. She will not respond if you call her. She ignores me. She won't do tricks. She's stubborn and sheds a ton and smells like Fritos. But she has the best breath and likes to put her paw on my leg when she hops on the couch to sit by me. Am i a crazy dog lady? umm, maybe, but i've never kidnapped a Mormon missionary. not quite there...yet. (I kid, I kid...)
My puppy tries so hard to understand me. She will cock her head and look at me really intently when I am telling her to do something. She normally ends up lying down in frustration, because that is the one trick she has really nailed so she'll throw it in there just to see if it works.
Eleanor Roosevelt Rigby and I may not speak the same language, but we communicate. I know when she needs something -- she lets me know. I know when she's content or pissed off. I know when she wants the window cracked so she can sit on the sill and look over her Catdom.
She knows my voice, and will always come to me. She curls up next to me at next. She'll calm down at the vet when she hears my voice or feels my touch.
She's been my friend for 15 years now. So yes -- we can communicate just fine.
My mums dog is thisclose to being a human. I'm not kidding, it's almost weird.
I have two cats, one is pretty standard, the other has the most interesting range of vocal expressions and totally chats with you.
My guinea pig, however, is the easiest to understand. I'm serious, any other pig owners up in here? They have so much personality and love to communicate.
My cat paces the headboard some mornings to wake me up. She makes this noise between a mew and a cry. Like "Wake up so you can go to work and buy me crap!"
Other mornings, I think she just says screw it and gives up.
I think my cats can tell when I am saying their name/looking for them. They don't always respond, but they have before, and I think they can tell by the way I'm talking or something.
I am convinced that my dearly departed kitty honed her "whiny" meow over time into the most obnoxious sound audible to the human ear, intentionally, so that people would just give her what she wanted so she would shut the hell up. Also, if I yelled at her, the inflections in her meow definitely got angrier.
me: "DON'T PEE ON MOMMY'S LAP/IPOD WHILE SHE'S DRIVING"
@vamusical: Mine too. I have never had a cat that had this annoying of a moew. It's a shriek and she meows/howls all the time to get stuff. Like open this door, feed me, pick me up, let me out of the room, let me in the room, play with me.
@RiotGrrrl: I still leave doors open out of habit because I was so used to doing it for her, since she would bitch and moan if she encountered a closed door. Also, when i turned on the lights in the bathroom at 6am, she was already waiting in the bathtub for me to turn on the water for her, and would shriek at me. How I miss her shrieks of death.
My dog loves cat poop - which is why I bought these cute dog treats from Etsy for Christmas that are meant to look like cat doo. I cannot wait to give them to him!
There is definitely limited communication with my dog. Well, technically my parents' dog, but I consider her mine, as well, since I am clearly her favorite.
She understands about 10-15 words. We ran a little experiment with her toys, telling her to get specific ones. It was actually kind of amazing, every time we tell her to get a particular toy, she always grabs the right one out of her basket about about a bazillion toys. Ball, fish, cow, duck, and a few others. Also, we cannot say the word squirrel around her in any context without her immediately running to the window facing the bird feeder with her hackles up. She also understands the word smoky (as in smoky link, her favorite thing in the world).
We also always know when her mortal enemy the UPS truck is coming, because she goes apeshit with a very particular, and enraged, bark just before it pulls over the hill. Since she is a huge coward, however, she ends up hiding under the computer desk as soon as it pulls into the driveway. She can also be in a deep sleep on another floor of the house and come in at a dead run when she hears the sound of airtight container lids being opened in the kitchen.
I'm constantly asking my Colby Jack (handsome lil' Main Coon) to evolve and become a man.
That sounds yucky written, but it's because he's so darn cuddly and loving and knows just how to cheer me up when I'm crying (this past weekend) and I would love that in a man right now.
Dominick has an inquisitive "mew?" an I'M IN PAIN AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT (tmi older cat issues) "MAAAAAAAAAAAW *growl*" and "MAAAAAAW" which means either FEED ME or STOP IGNORING ME FOR I AM THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE.
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One of my cats is extremely demanding of affection. She'll start off meowing at you. If you don't pay attention it progresses to one paw on your arm and a meow, then standing on her hind legs and moving her front paws in the air, begging. She does it to EVERYONE. She did it to the cable guy when he came to hook up the cable. She's the older kitty, 13 now, and all fluffy and gray so she's pretty irresistable.
God, I am a crazy cat lady...
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My dad has convos with the dog, and its pretty hilarious. They also nap together, walk around the house together, etc. The dog is my dad's constant companion.
Another thing my parents do is put me on the phone with the dog. He does this adorable head cock thing (like that pug video, but with a massive head of a bullmastiff) when he hears my voice.
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She knows my voice, and will always come to me. She curls up next to me at next. She'll calm down at the vet when she hears my voice or feels my touch.
She's been my friend for 15 years now. So yes -- we can communicate just fine.
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I have two cats, one is pretty standard, the other has the most interesting range of vocal expressions and totally chats with you.
My guinea pig, however, is the easiest to understand. I'm serious, any other pig owners up in here? They have so much personality and love to communicate.
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Other mornings, I think she just says screw it and gives up.
I think my cats can tell when I am saying their name/looking for them. They don't always respond, but they have before, and I think they can tell by the way I'm talking or something.
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me: "DON'T PEE ON MOMMY'S LAP/IPOD WHILE SHE'S DRIVING"
cat: "MAAAAAAAAH"
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She understands about 10-15 words. We ran a little experiment with her toys, telling her to get specific ones. It was actually kind of amazing, every time we tell her to get a particular toy, she always grabs the right one out of her basket about about a bazillion toys. Ball, fish, cow, duck, and a few others. Also, we cannot say the word squirrel around her in any context without her immediately running to the window facing the bird feeder with her hackles up. She also understands the word smoky (as in smoky link, her favorite thing in the world).
We also always know when her mortal enemy the UPS truck is coming, because she goes apeshit with a very particular, and enraged, bark just before it pulls over the hill. Since she is a huge coward, however, she ends up hiding under the computer desk as soon as it pulls into the driveway. She can also be in a deep sleep on another floor of the house and come in at a dead run when she hears the sound of airtight container lids being opened in the kitchen.
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That sounds yucky written, but it's because he's so darn cuddly and loving and knows just how to cheer me up when I'm crying (this past weekend) and I would love that in a man right now.
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