14 Ways Your Cat Communicates Without Talking

Table of Contents

• 1 Please don’t interrupt my nap on your keyboard.
• 2 Stop photographing me (I’m not from the Kardashian clan)
• 3 Get your dirty hands off my stomach, okay?
• 4 I’m a cat … let me scratch my nails.
• 5 I am perfectly capable of cleaning myself, thank you!
• 6 Don’t panic when I “offer” you a dead animal or insect.
• 7 I meow to tell you something, but it is clear that you are not talking to the cat when you answer me by meowing!
• 8 We cats have no problem with nudity.
• 9 Stop accusing my hair of being the cause of your allergies.
• 10 We would like you to find another animal to demonize
• 11 Could you stop ridiculing the people who love our cats?
• 12 When we meow all the time, maybe it’s a cry for help.
• 13 When we defecate out of our bin, it’s not just to upset you.

How can you tell if a cat likes you? Have you always dreamed of owning a secret guide to deciphering your cat’s language and behaviors? Here are some tips your cat would like you to understand. It is how to make a cat like you.

Please don’t interrupt my nap on your keyboard.

You humans talk a lot about the work you do on your computers, but you don’t hesitate to wake us up and chase us away when we sleep on them. However, we know for a fact what you are going to do once in front of your screen: you will be watching cat videos. Weird.

You need to understand that we cats need 12 to 16 hours of sleep a day? Without that, we are real mops! In addition, our delicate body needs the warmth of your computer: the temperature that we love, cats, is about ten degrees higher than yours.

Stop photographing me (I’m not from the Kardashian clan)

You humans seem unable to restrain yourself from strafing us with your phone, but you resort to devious techniques – for example, waving a toy in front of our eyes to get our attention and dropping it as soon as we turn our heads.

It isn’t kind. If we cats agree to let us take a picture, you could at least play with us a little in return. There’s one thing you don’t have to worry about when photographing us, though: the flash won’t hurt our eyes.

But it will often produce an ugly reflection in the photo because of our shiny carpet, a layer of ultra-reflective cells found at the back of felines‘ eyes and which help them see at night.

Get your dirty hands off my stomach, okay?

Do you think it’s to be nice that we show you our belly? In some cases, it is indeed a sign of camaraderie. But at other times, it means the opposite.

In the language of cat, it means instead: “You want to fight? Come on, come on!”. Showing the belly is a defensive movement indicating that all of our limbs and claws are in attack mode.

If we are showing off our stomachs, we may also be just trying to stretch.

I’m a cat … let me scratch my nails.

We also need to maintain our claws like you, who have to cut and file your nails, so they don’t end up in the Guinness World Records. But we cats have other reasons to take care of it.

First, scratching helps us remove our dead nail cells. But we also do it to mark our territory (we have secretory glands in the claws) and stretch ourselves (how do you think we stay so graceful?). Alas, when we slaughter your favorite sofa or carpet, some of you decide to make us declaw.

Please don’t – it’s like having your fingertips severed. Instead, get us a scraper (you may need to try more than one before you find a suitable model for us).

I am perfectly capable of cleaning myself, thank you!

Some scientists believe that the modern cat does not like swimming or being wet because its human companions have kept it safe from rain and water since it was domesticated 5,000 or 10,000 years ago.

In addition, it is true that cat hair “does not dry very quickly, and it is very unpleasant for them to stay soaked,” observes Kelley Bollen, a specialist in animal behavior at the college of veterinary medicine at Cornell University.

I also believe that cats are control freaks and prefer to keep all four feet on the floor, plus they hate the sensation of floating.” And then who needs a shower, eh? We cats are born with a built-in toiletry bag: claws, a stiff, scratchy tongue, and plenty of salivae.

But as much as we hate being in the water, you still need to make sure we have something to drink, especially if you give us dry food (canned food is 78% water).

No matter our diet, we must have our bowl of water, and you must change it every day.

Don’t panic when I “offer” you a dead animal or insect.

Animal behavior specialists have some ideas on why we are doing this. We may be imitating what Mom Cat did for us.

Or you fill our bowl every day and, since we are not ungrateful, we return the favor. Or we caught more crickets than we can eat and thought you might not spit on the leftovers.

And finally, we might offer you our catch so you can put it aside for later. In short, like “scratching,” the bug offering is in our genes, so if you don’t like our gifts, maybe you should put a bell around our neck so we can’t capture anything.

I meow to tell you something, but it is clear that you are not talking to the cat when you answer me by meowing!

Cat meow sounds : Science has discovered that cats can produce more than a dozen meows, each with its unique meaning.

In general, kittens meow to communicate with their mothers, but adult cats only meow to communicate with humans. (To communicate with each other, we prefer hissing, growling, and screeching.)

The most receptive cat owners can differentiate a meow from “I’m hungry” from “What the hell am I doing.” ‘bored!”! Or an “I am in pain” or an “I am afraid.”

When you meow something to us, we recognize your voice, but for us, it’s like speaking the language of some sports commentators: we don’t understand anything you say!

We cats have no problem with nudity.

Humans have a terrible desire to inflict hats, tees, dresses, and other clothes on us.

But what are we to you, eh? Dogs? We hate feeling locked in or confined, and if you sometimes catch us rubbing one of your sweaters, it’s just that we love the touch of the fabric under our claws; that doesn’t mean we dream of wearing it.

We don’t need clothes to feel covered: our coat contains over 21,000 hairs per square centimeter. (Did you know that a cat’s surface area, including hair, is roughly the same as a ping-pong table?)

Stop accusing my hair of being the cause of your allergies.

Why are so many humans allergic to us? (Cat allergies are said to be twice as many as dog allergies.) Do you know any cats that are allergic to humans? And humans are rapid to blame our hairs.

But what causes your sneezing and coughing is a highly stubborn, sticky protein that find on our skin called “Fel d 1”. Sorry to disappoint those who went to the trouble of buying a so-called “hypoallergenic” species, but such a cat does not exist! Some breeds produce less Fel d 1 than others, but all cats secrete it.

We would like you to find another animal to demonize

Black cats would bring bad luck; in some areas of United States, crossing a cat on the first of January would condemn you to 365 disastrous days; cats to be the favorite companions of witches and villains.

It took us cats ages to get rid of this nasty (and completely false) publicity. Stop peddling these lies. And instead, continue, you humans, to do what your kind does best: speak ill of your neighbor.

Could you stop ridiculing the people who love our cats?

While dog lovers see as outgoing, friendly, and active people, cat lovers are called names. It hurts us.

When we stop, fall and roll over, it’s no accident.

Observe the time and place of our antics to understand because it is often a strategy like: “Hello, look at me.” Does this happen when you are on the phone? On the computer? When you put on your shoes to leave the house?

Remember, you see many people in a day when we cats have a relatively small audience – the people we live with – so be a good audience.

When we meow all the time, maybe it’s a cry for help.

Some cat breeds, such as the Shorthaired Oriental or the Siamese, are more talkative than others. But if your usually quiet cat suddenly becomes very “talkative,” he may be sick and should be taken to the vet.

But he also meows perhaps for another, less disturbing reason: the need for attention. You, humans, generalize that cats are loners, reserved creatures. False! Of course, we need some quiet time, but we also love the company, especially if you are gone all day.

When we defecate out of our bin, it’s not just to upset you.

If we have a urinary tract infection, sometimes we don’t make it to the kitty-corner. To find out what’s going on and if there are other issues, take us to the vet.

We cats love our litter box to be like Kate Middleton’s hair: clean and plentiful. Please change it daily, and ideally give us an open container; we prefer them to closed models.

If you understand the cat in sign language, you will not get a question like Does my cat love me?