Love this. I’ve also read they can learn and adjust how much they meow based on some of the feedback they get from the owner, ie if you actually respond to each meow with your own voice or similar. Really neat stuff
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Pechente@feddit.de 1 year agoTo support your theory: Wild cats don’t meow when they’re grown up. They usually only do this as kittens. When they grow up around humans they keep this trait to communicate with humans. So yeah, we’re like moms or something to them.
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Malfeasant@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Long ago, I adopted a cat from a deaf girl. Weirdest thing, going to her house to pick one out, she had several, and none of them meowed. It was months before the one I picked out started meowing.
echo@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
my cat came from a hoarder and the shelter said she might not be very well socialized because there were so many cats that they wouldn’t have gotten much human attention, but she literally never stops meowing
EhList@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I wonder if adult cats communicate in ranges we cannot hear such as when a cat looks at yiu opens its mouth and nothing comes out
Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
In addition to this they also meow in the frequency of a crying baby to get our attention much easier IIRC