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Pat's confused cat
"Christina Websell" wrote in message
... "CatNipped" wrote in message ... "Christina Websell" wrote in message ... "Dan M" wrote in message ... My brother Pat has quite an assortment of kitties that are now coming by his place regularly for food. One of them, nicknamed "Beat-to-hell Cat", is a tom who obviously lived a hard life. He's missing half one ear, has scars all over his face, etc. For the first few weeks he was eating at Pat's he would run off whenever he saw any human nearby. He finally started calming down a bit, until he would eat on the front porch while Pat was sitting nearby. About a month ago he started getting close enough for Pat to pet his head. He is a strange cat. He rubs against Pat's legs and stands still to be petted, but hisses the whole time. Last week he modified his behavior a little. Now he still hisses while he's being petted, but throws an occasional squeaky "meow" in between hisses. It sounds like the poor thing never learned to meow properly. I read somewhere that cats have to *learn* to meow in a low enough register for humans to hear as ferals communicate by meow with each other in a much higher tone which we cannot hear. This would explain why your old boy hasn't got it yet, and why I think KFC cannot meow. She opens her mouth every time I look at her but no sound comes out. She is obviously meowing but I can't hear it. She is quite able to make other sounds - like when she was threatening another cat in the days of her youth she had a loud voice with that mrow, mrow, mrow walking on tiptoe very slowly to say you wanna fight? get this then.. ;-) Then came the flying attack from a 4lb dervish. She had no fear of any cat, no matter how much larger than her they were and they cowered and ran. Boyfie was a bit lucky, I think ;-) Kitty was totally bowled over by his charm. LOL! I think attitude wins more fights than prowess - and KFC certainly has the attitude. How is the old girl doing lately? Declining in appetite again, unfortunately. There is only so much chicken you can freshly roast to tempt. Tweed I'm sorry to hear that. Please give her a skritch from me and let the grande dame know she has admirers from all across the world! Hugs, CatNipped |
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Pat's confused cat
Christina Websell wrote:
Declining in appetite again, unfortunately. There is only so much chicken you can freshly roast to tempt. Tweed Lots and lots of purrs, Polonca and Soncek |
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