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Pets & Working Animals => Cats => Topic started by: Buffy the eggs layer on January 25, 2012, 04:49:52 pm

Title: Does anyone elses cat do this?
Post by: Buffy the eggs layer on January 25, 2012, 04:49:52 pm

If Toby spies a fly or a spider ( or has one brought to his attention by me) he makes a little " Yaw-yaw-yah" sound which is somewhere between a mew and a ninja war cry and then he opens and closes his mouth a few times as if he is imagining himself chewing on something unpleasant. ???

Its actually one of the more endeering of his perculiar habits so I'm not complaining but I just wondered if other cats do this or wether its exclusive to my little feline friend. :cat:

Buffy

Title: Re: Does anyone elses cat do this?
Post by: Bionic on January 25, 2012, 04:58:04 pm

Buffy my cat does it too but its usually when she spies a bird.  Her teeth almost seem to chatter when she gets excited.
Sally

Title: Re: Does anyone elses cat do this?
Post by: jaykay on January 25, 2012, 06:24:55 pm

Yes, mine both do that 'chattering' thing when they see birds through the window  ::)

Title: Re: Does anyone elses cat do this?
Post by: little blue on January 25, 2012, 07:32:15 pm

its a cat thing!
If they can't reach the fly/bird/innocent passerby, then they do a frustrated kind of "jaws of death" bite that sounds like their teeth chattering... like they are pretending they are killing it

(If I remember correctly, I read it in Desmond Moriss "cat watching")

Title: Re: Does anyone elses cat do this?
Post by: plumseverywhere on January 25, 2012, 09:01:35 pm

Snowball does it too! she stares intently at the bird/fly/spider/dragon - whatever she can't reach and mutters/chatters and sort of does this meh meh noise. makes me laugh  ;D

Title: Re: Does anyone elses cat do this?
Post by: melodrama on January 25, 2012, 11:34:32 pm

Mine all do it too and always have done.  Start getting concerned when they do the weirder things mine do like sucking their own teats.  My middle cat - Venus - does this.  My youngest - Gaia - sucks on every blanket she sees - endearing but have to watch them all very regularly - yuck!

Title: Re: Does anyone elses cat do this?
Post by: Buffy the eggs layer on January 26, 2012, 03:13:34 pm

Ha ha!

 Nice ::) :-\

Buffy

Title: Re: Does anyone elses cat do this?
Post by: NormandyMary on March 29, 2012, 08:20:01 pm

Yep mine do that too. I call it "Wishful thinking"!

Title: Re: Does anyone elses cat do this?
Post by: Crazyboutdaanimals on May 07, 2012, 01:32:04 pm

mine dont, but now i think he cannot be normal  :(, not that you can get a "normal" cat hehehe

Title: Re: Does anyone elses cat do this?
Post by: Buffy the eggs layer on May 09, 2012, 05:57:11 pm

Actually only Toby does it.

       Polly just narrows her eyes and looks fixated by whatever it is, so I think there may be two types of cat,

those who just get out there, catch things and kill them (Polly)

and those who mew about what they would do if they did catch something (Toby)

Bless,

Buffy

Title: Re: Does anyone elses cat do this?
Post by: Mammyshaz on May 09, 2012, 06:03:21 pm

Yes, my old girls used to 'cackle' at the birds. You could see the evil thoughts in their eyes  ;D