Why do cats purr?

14 thoughts on “Why do cats purr?”

1. But wouldn’t that mean that the pleasure of the bees is inversely proportional to the pleasure of the cat?

   b&

2. Only the smaller breeds/species do; AFAIK, nothing bigger than a cougar actually purrs (Hollywood movies often add it in).

   Hmmm…lions and tigers must not eat enough bees.

   1. Ever seen the reaction of lions or tigers (or most large mammals, for that matter) to the mere sound of bees? They avoid them at all costs.

      Some African farmers are now using bees to keep elephants away from crops – and it really does work very well indeed.

      1. Doesn’t deter the honey badgers though.

         1. Nothing, but nothing, deters honey badgers.

3. Bees can only tell us how cats purr. You need religion to answer the why question.

   1. +1

4. It would explain why, after eating some disgusting thing she found in the garden, my kitteh has honey-sweet breath.

5. – “Bees’ cause”?

   That is preschool biology, isn’t it!?

   1. Oh, that was really good!

      1. Cats purr because they don’t know the words. (Nor do they care.) And bees are more bite-size than hornets.

6. Bee-cause they can?

7. This shows the original unaltered poster, which shows scietifically how cats really purr: http://fakescience.tumblr.com/post/17560458481/why-do-cats-purr But even though I now know the truth, in my heart, it’s bees.

8. Now that we know it’s bees that cause the purring. we should be asking how the bees react to external stimuli: http://www.funnyplace.org/stream.php?id=21632

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