I'll concede that I'm guilty of anthropomorphizing to a degree, but the range of his communicative abilities is truly amazing - there's never any question about what he's trying to get across. A maestro of tonal inflection, he maintains a running commentary as he follows inquisitively in our wake. There's the chirp that translates as "Hi! Nice to see you!". The rising mew that for all intents and purposes has a question mark embedded, that he uses when he's clearly baffled about something. The forlornly drawn-out whine when evening draws near and we impose a curfew ( we have wolves and cougar around here, so when the sun goes down and we're no longer outdoors we make sure the family critters come in as well ). The list goes on. And on. And ON... sometimes my husband and I wish he had a mute button.
However, most of the time we enjoy his verbosity - it's endearing. He's quite a little character, an extroverted gremlin with a contagious sense of fun.
We enjoy our conversations.
Oh my! Absolutely adorable! He sure does sound like a fun little guy. My oldest cat (patsie) she talks to us lol I can speak to her and she always speaks back! hee hee it's so cute. Sometimes she meows at me from outside the bathroom door, I'll talk back and the convo keeps going!
ReplyDeleteBathroom conversations! Don't get me going...cats object, on principle, to any closed door. We recently picked up a "cat-door" to install in our bathroom so that I don't have to keep getting out of the tub in the evenings to play revolving doors with them.
ReplyDeleteA sign, I'm sure, of a person who indulges her cats entirely too much. Sigh.... ;)