Types of purring.

[Mags]

Cassie has a low engine purr and a high pitched miaow.......

[Sweet]

I will have to work out Violets and Mau Mau's x

[Snoof]

Originally Posted by Kazz

You are doing so well with Ninja honestly sounds like you are over the worst, and hopefully its all plain sailing from now on.

I think you're absolutely right. While we have a lot of stuff left to work on, it's more kind of embroidering on the things we've established already. And his trust is so much better now

I used to be able to pick my dog's bark out of a lineup. Late one night, my father took her for a walk in the park. Now this dog was a story similar to Ninja's - we got her when she was a year old, and she'd been abused and neglected beforehand (even though the people we got her from paid about £1,000 for her ). Problem was, she was scared of people she didn't know and dead scared of other dogs.

A Great Dane tried to give her a friendly sniff, and before my father knew what was happening she'd torn the lead out of his hand and legged it at high speed.

We were all sitting in the lounge (my Mum, my brother and I - and the cat) watching TV when a dog barked outside. "Oh," I said, "That's our dog, I'll go let her in".

My Mum told me not to be silly, our dog was off with my dad... So I opened the front door and in came our dog.

An hour later my father came home, apologising and saying he'd lost the dog and had been looking for her for the past hour and a half I remember my Mum asked me how I'd known it was our dog, and I was puzzled - I was about 13 at the time and it had not occurred to me that some people might not know their dog's bark from any other dog's bark

Couldn't pick any of my previous cats' meows out of a lineup though, except for Dishrag's - he talked all the time, provided you talked back!

[random]

Originally Posted by Moli

How the heck can you tell by that

You really don't want me to explain do you

(I have a small, medium and large dog....)

[random]

Originally Posted by random

Me too, and the dogs I can tell who it is by the bark, ppl think it's amazing but you just get to know your animals

With the dogs I can also tell who it is by the poo

It's handy cuz if one poo's in the flower bed I can bollik the right dog

[Julie84]

Can't say I have ever given it much thought before but I can tell the difference between Thomas' and Murphy's purrs and also, to a certain extent, understand their talking. Thomas is the most vocal and will often just talk to me because he feels like it but I can normally tell if it's a hungry cry, scared/upset cry or a let me through this locked door cry!

[logoes]

The one certain noise of India's which there is no mistaking is the 'I'm going to use my litter tray' and having used it the race back through the kitchen with the same "yoooow, I've used it "!!, I'm still learning her 'talk', it is quite different from any of our other cats, so the next question is do cats imitate the noises their owners make ?? Is India talking in the way that she heard her previous owner talk ? After all we are told that birds have regional accents. Logoes.

[carternm31]

Jaffa makes a 'hannibal' noise and shudders her jaw whenever she see's a bird and shes behind a window...

Its scarey

[Donna]

Originally Posted by carternm31

Jaffa makes a 'hannibal' noise and shudders her jaw whenever she see's a bird and shes behind a window...

Its scarey

[Donna]

Chloe has the standard factory fitted purr and miaow, whereas Misty obviously fell off the assembly line and ended up with a heavy tractor purr but no miaow. She talks to you instead and makes noises in her throad like hmmmmmmm!!!