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According to the documentary, humans anthropomorphize their cats no shocker there, right? They say that when the cat mooshes your stomach or kneads dough, whatever you call it, people think they're showing affection. In reality, this is a behavior that stimulated milk to flow when they were kittens. Humans think it's cute, so they pet them when they do it. This encourages it to continue.
However, they'll do it without encouragement simply because we don't correct them. It's like a kid sucking on his thumb or drinking from a bottle at 12yrs old. The documentary also said that when people think cats are bringing them presents of dead birds, snake maybe not so dead , or leaves, we think they're bringing us gifts. Instead, the documentary claims that they feel like we're poor hunters and they're bringing food back to the other members of their clowder to ensure their survival.
There is nothing in my own experience that contradicts this for me. I can totally see my cat thinking I'm the one that needs looking after. As for vocalization, they said that cats aren't very vocal with each other after kittenhood. Yes, they yowl at each other, especially when fighting or looking to mate, but they said that the vast majority of cat vocalizations we hear are specifically made for humans. The cats meow and get a reaction out of us. Therefore, they continue to meow.
The meow can easily evolve. If they meow and we don't respond, they can meow harder or softer. In the case of my cat, I believe that when his meow was whinier and quieter, my family thought it was funny and paid more attention to him. They usually do what he wants, such as going to check his food bowl to make sure he can't see the bottom or letting him outside. Either way, his meow has gotten almost silent. However, when he's ignored it gets louder.
Try that with your cat. Ignore the quiet meows, not even looking over, and if they get louder, then you can see what the cat wants. I've experienced this with our oldest cat, Cassie, a calico that adopted us over 18 years ago. We have since added a few more cats to our family and one of them is a very large alpha Maine Coon male.
They all get along fine, but Cassie is very skittish and always on her haunches, like she doesn't trust the other cats not to pounce on her as far as I know, they have never done that. She has developed a silent meow and I think it's because she is afraid to beg for something, or draw attention. Maybe in the social cat hierarchy in our home, she feels she "has no voice".
She is not always silent, but mostly is when she wants attention. Thanks for opening the discussion. I have a silent meower, he's healthy in every other way. The only unusual thing I noticed is that as a kitten he had faintly bad breath and still has it.
He meows in a way that sounds like breath. I thought when he was a kitten that he was adorably hissing at me, over time I realized the slight hiss of his breath is his only sound. Every now and then he tries very hard and makes a precious squeak that kind of scares him.
I worried he was deaf, but he responds - sometimes too sensitively - to sound. After reading all the suggestions here, I think it seems coincidental he's a tabby with other rare traits like a bobtail. He may have a genotype that caused his vocal abilities to have been underdeveloped, thus he is disabled in the context of making the common range of sounds. Or he may have a mental stimulus associated with sound that is sensually overwhelming, like cat autism, I'm not sure.
The silent meow is not silent at all. It is important to recognize that cats have a more acute sense of hearing than humans. Their ears are also anatomically-different than what we have as humans. A typical cat can hear sounds that operate in the range of 45 to 64, Hertz. What this means is that cats have a more acute sense of hearing. There is another anatomic feature that can help explain why a cat has such a superb sense of hearing.
If you look at their ears, they have a very distinct shape. One can say that its principal design is for gathering sound waves from the air. The shape of the ear lobes funnels these sound waves straight into the eardrums.
Hence, the silent meow is not silent at all. Our ears are simply not capable of picking up the frequency of the sound that the cat elicits. Here are some of the possible meanings of the feline silent meow.
Cats are never as showy as their canine counterparts. However, if you own a breed that is known for attention-seeking behavior, then you might notice the kitty to express a silent meow.
Examples of kitties that are known for relishing the attention of their owners include the Himalayan , Burmese , and Siamese cats.
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