34 thoughts on “The world’s most vociferous cat”

  1. This what the cat is really saying (One of the funniest dubbings ever):

    3. Trop vite pour mon Francasie (c’est vite commme une vache Espagnol). Peut-etre, un transcription?
      I got that the cat wanted let into “ma maison”, and the hoomin was challenging the ownership … but the rest was too fast.

      1. Yeah, I tried too. I could catch the occasional word but the rest was too fast. Problem is, when it’s all run together like that, even stopping the video and listening to it in phrases, it’s hard to distinguish the words. I can understand why transcribers of cockpit voice recorders often can’t come up with a definitive exact transcript.

        What’s this Spanish cow thing? I’ve heard it but I don’t know the meaning. (Googles) ‘Parlez Francais comme une vache espagnole’. OK now I totally get it! C’est moi! 🙂

        cr

  2. I wonder if she is holding up something to provoke the cat. Maybe something besides the video device?

    Alternately, are there syndromes in cats for which polydactyly is one feature? I know there is one in humans with eye involvement. Perhaps cat can’t see well. Maybe that explains him asking to be let in but also hissing.

    1. That cat is in some serious distress!! It is angry and that is a threatening call. I’ve had many cats to know when one is ready to attack. I feel the woman is somehow provoking the cat, which makes me kinda mad!!!
      On the other hand wikipedia mentions that polydactily in cats is caused be a single autosomal mutation, so it probably independent from any other traits.

    2. I wonder if she is holding up something to provoke the cat. Maybe something besides the video device?

      To quote the Georgian (UK George 5) or Edwardian (UK, Eddy 7/8) photographer, “Watch the birdie!”

  4. That cat is not asking to come in. It is feeling threatened by something and is warning that something that it is willing to attack or defend itself. The something could be the woman herself, something she is holding, or nothing we could figure out (I have met some neurotic/psycho kitties in my day).

    1. COme to think of it, the sounds are what a cat would make at a rival cat over a territorial dispute. The hiss is also consistent. If this is the ladies’ pet, maybe it has its wires crossed?

  5. A lot of the Facebook comments are hysterical that this cat is being tortured somehow to generate these sounds. I’m skeptical that people are very good as interpreting animal behavior without more context than this video provides.

    1. Those are the sounds a cat makes either to warn off a stranger to its territory or when she’s in heat. The hiss might suggest the former, but one of my cats hisses at damn near everything; her standard operating mode is to hiss first, and then figure out if that was appropriate.

      Either way, this is not a cat just asking to be let in. It is agitated about something. We’re definitely missing context.

      1. We’re definitely missing context.

        Since the film is obviously a composite of at least 3 (“at least”) sequences … yeah, missing context.

        Karen the rock whisperer

        I listen carefully to my rocks – especially Fred, the psychoanalytical barytes-galena vein – but they’re very quiet. I’ve tried speaking to them from telepathy up to octanitrocubane in FOOOF suspension … what’s you’re trick?

        1. Octanitrocubane? Has that featured on Derek Lowe’s blog yet?** (If it exists, however briefly, it probably has)

          cr

          **Things I Won’t Work With, for anyone who doesn’t already know it.

          1. Footnote: A quick Google suggests that it is, in fact, quite surprisingly stable. Surprising to me, at least (but I’m not a chemist).

            cr

          2. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen ONC on TIWWW. FOOOF (and of course, FOOF) definitely appear there.
            I was looking for one of Lowe’s more interesting non-co-workers, and came across an example of the reason I like his sense of humour so much :

            Yes, this is an example of something that becomes less explosive as a one-to-one cocrystal with TNT. Although, as the authors point out, if you heat those crystals up the two components separate out, and you’re left with crystals of pure CL-20 soaking in liquid TNT, a situation that will heighten your awareness of the fleeting nature of life.

            Ah, here it is. I’ll just let it’s undiluted glory wash over you. http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/04/azo-thing-300×148.png
            [SNIGGER] He calls it an “azo-thing”.
            Is Things I’m glad I don’t Do a new addition? Ohh, more entertainment!

  6. Oh dear god…that sound!

    The first time I ever heard “cat talking” it totally freaked me out. I was inside my house at the time and heard what sounded like sub-human proto-language, like two babies being strangled while trying to talk to one another. It was the most uncanny, otherworldly thing I’d ever heard. I finally traced it to two cats facing each other outside on the sidewalk at night. I don’t know if it’s a territory thing, or a pre-mating thing, but I’ve only heard it a few times since from cats.

    I do not know how cat lovers sleep at night, given the Lovecraftian horrors they seem to hide within.

    1. The worst is being woken up to the sounds of cat mating. Terrifying.

      1. Oh gosh yes. Cats mating sounds like how I would imagine the devil would sound.

      2. “The worst is being woken up to the sounds of cat mating. Terrifying.”

        Yes, if only because it means they are reproducing.

        *sneaks out of cat-lovers thread before being banned…*

  7. I have met many very talkative cats, including a very friendly one down the street who never stops making the cutest little kitten mews, but this one does not seem friendly.

  8. Great. Played the first 15 seconds of it and now one of my cats woke up and is freaking out thinking someone is invading his territory. He’s such a male, ignoring crows and squirrels that can be within feet of him and he doesn’t bat an eyelid. Another cat comes within view, though…

    1. Yeah – it brought my one cat racing into the room too with a look of serious alarm on his face…

  9. Cacophonous pussycat is in some kind of distress, such as tummyache, overheated, or super thirsty, and certainly pissed off at the lumpy human at the door.

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