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[–]writerlylesbian 9 insightful - 5 fun9 insightful - 4 fun10 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

There was one study that found humans and their cats actually develop something of an individual language unique to them. Scientists recorded a whole bunch of different cat meows, then played those meows back to the individual owner of each cat, and the humans generally knew what each sound meant. As in, oh that meow means the cat wants (x). But all the cats had developed different meows for various things, it's just that humans knew THEIR particular cat's noises, and what they meant.

My cat absolutely knows certain words and certain voice intonations. There was some other study that found cats generally knew when their owner was speaking to/about them, the cat just often ignored the owner if they felt like it. Lol. Very cat.

[–]carrotcake 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's so cool! It makes sense, we can usually tell witch kind of meowing it is