The world's shortest fairy tale

My QI Sugar (an orange tabby) calls me when she can't locate me. She simply yells "Mom?" and I answer with "I"m here". Not 2 seconds later she appears. When we first moved into our new house she lost sight of me alot. Just so cute to have a cat that actually "needs" me.

Linda in Tx

No Siamese I've ever known would be sorry they transgressed, only sorry they were caught. ;-)

Indeed yes! My little girl kitty saves her most imperious meOW, for when she wants me to turn the tap on for her drink! Seems it far nicer than from the bowl >g< One of the boys has a sweet little 'hello' - given and in response. We do converse with them. I sometimes think they don't think much of the meanings we attribute to their sounds! There's a lot of repetition, as if they keep going until we get it right! And all this is to say nothing of kitty body language. The little girl has the most eloquent tail in the world! . In message , QuiltsWithCatFur writes

Thank you! I really like it and I've only just got it out of the box.

Cindy

You know, I think you're right. She stomped around for a while, and looked annoyed that I had worked out that the moving, grooming lump wasn't part of the quilt. Then she wanted the heater on at 1 pm. Erm, don't change the subject on me, Sasha....

-- Jo in Scotland

I don't have kids, but do have nieces and nephews but I didn't get to see them much as they were growing up (my nephew will be 23 on the 14th and I haven't seen him since he was 11 and I've never met his brother (adopted when he was 9) and he's 18 or 19 now). I also have pseudo-kids that I have spoiled and sent home. The joy of having kids without the stretch marks (at least not from pregnancy) or labor. I do miss a warm body in bed sometimes, but don't miss my ex. As for tripping over barbies, I trip over rawhide bones and raquet balls (they are the only balls Amber can't eat).

Amber talks all the time. Sometimes I know what she's saying, and sometimes I don't. I know she understands English, and I can speak Dog, just don't know what I'm saying when I do it. But she does share my bed, so I do have at least a small warm body in the bed with me when she wants to sleep on the bed. She doesn't always, just depends on her mood or if she gets cold and wants under the covers.

Tigg

or being pecked to death by a duck!

Colin has taught me all of the dirty words. He likes neither the vet nor his medications.

-georg

What does it say about our QIs that they can understand us, and we normally can't understand them? But I get a real thrill from establishing complete and unquestioned trust from a "being" I cannot talk to.

BTW - did you all know that a cat meowing is an attempt to vocalise their communication? They don't do it to one another, and only try it if they become socialised with humans. They are attempting to duplicate our speech patterns. All this from an animal with a braim not much bigger than a pecan nut!!

I talk to my cats, and they talk to me. They understand exactly what I say, and I usually don't know what they are on about until they "explain" it to me. I tell them exactly what they are allowed to do, they do exactly what they want, and we are all happy.

I have four parrots, and they ALL talk....sometimes TOO MUCH!! LOL

-Irene

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Stripey has recently decided that tap water is much nicer than bowl water. This time of year it is no problem, most evenings and sometimes days the water is dripping at all the taps to avoid them freezing. Very convienient for cats. If they are all off though, she will dance around you meowing her little head off til you follow her, then she will jump up on the kitchen counter, bat at the faucet, and look at you expectantly.

She does the same thing with her food dish.

NightMist

It beats me why some people still refer to them as "dumb animals" - 'cos they sure know how to get a message across!

I have many - non-blood related - grandchildren who visit and play with me on a regular basis. Ms. Katelynn from across the street is DGDs friend but she comes over after school for a snack and I help with her home work. Her father is at the house but is pretty uninvolved with her. He naps as soon as he gets her home and her mother doesn't get home until after 5. She's a joy at age 7 for me.

Yes, my formerly semi-feral almost toothless cat, Steve, says, "Cow ?". I'm never sure if he's calling me a cow, or looking for his lost cow. It always seems to have a question mark after it too.

Occasionally, Brigit, one of my other cats, says mama.

My other 3 QIs don't speak English, so who knows what they're saying.

Denise

When I show Kirby the quilts I am working on, he says "Rah, rah".

Sasha said, "If I didn't get caught, it didn't happen."

Taz and Goldie

I have dated men who were not smart enough to do that. Cyndi

bat at the faucet, and look at you expectantly.

They are attempting to duplicate our speech patterns. All this from an animal with a brain not much bigger than a pecan nut!!

Are we talking about cats or men ?

Cyndi just kidding

If my cat was asleep when I went up to bed she would come looking for me when she woke up using that sound cats make when trying to locate their kittens. She never had any babies, but she knew the sound. I would tell her where I was and she'd be fine. Just checking to make sure she knew where her baby was.