Moby is not a big talker. Of course, in the carrier on the way home from the shelter, he mewled at D the whole way. After that, silence. It was a few months before we heard him mew.
"Was that Moby?"
"Yeah. I think so."
And he's never gotten much more talkative. In recent weeks, he will Mrrkh at us when we get home more often, but even at that, it's not much.
Once in a while, he will get up in the bedroom window at night, and jump down, vocalizing his disapproval of whatever he saw that he didn't much like. Last night, it was a full paragraph in Cat. I didn't know he knew those kinds of words. He was explaining in detail what was wrong with the world out the window. "Mrrrr, mrrkh, wwwaar, wrawwwk...." Lots of different sounds, none of which were meow. The relative rarity of his vocalization means we both woke to listen to his rant.
Not that we mind, always glad to hear what Moby wants to say. Even if we don't understand the language.
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I wonder if all that extra vocab was because he thought you were asleep, and thus you would remain unknowing.
Could have been a thick Boston accent, of course...
Very funny. Moby is certainly quite character, therefore, always worth listening to. :)
P'raps he was sleep talking/walking.
My cat is adequately vocal. Most often when in pining mode to be an outdoor cat.
apparently cats are most vocal when they want us dull humans to get the message....
I feel absolutely sure that our cat has particular sounds that mean certain things - eg: meep is "give me some of that fish/ice cream"; meeeew is hello; aow-aow-aow is "I'm upstairs waiting for you to come to bed" - and so on. Wonderful.
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