Why do cats meow

Many owners of furry pets often annoying constant meowing their favorites. However, few people think about what has caused the cat's meow. Currently, through the observation of cats found that they are able to issue more than thirty different variations of sounds. In this case, each animal there is a unique set of sounds you use. Their set depends on the cat's habitat and therefore how often it communicates with people or other animals (cats, dogs).

Goals that cats held a number of people allowed them to conclude that people communicate with each other primarily through sound and the human response is more pronounced in the voice and active than the reaction to gestures or body odors.

Why cats talk

Meowing cat is always under a certain cause. Most often, your furry pet meow want to draw your attention to some its need. For example, requests to open the door, feed, play a note.

In fact, most meow sounds made by cats when dealing with a person are different variants of communication sounds kitten with his mother. After all, cats see their owners are not the leader (as in dogs) and a mother. Domestic cats are totally dependent on their owners, which provide them with food, warmth, care. No wonder that even adult animals behave with a man like kittens.

Cat communicate between themselves by odors of different movements, gestures factors behavior. Voice, they are not very often, mostly during courtship and mating, while clarifying the relationship (eg, in the battle for territory) and the interaction of the mother and kittens.

Cat owners need to know that any significant changes in animal behavior, including changes in the frequency and intensity of the emitted sound may indicate a change in the state of pet health. In this case it is useful to make an appointment for the veterinarian to determine exactly what has caused the behavior change pet.

Sample the sounds of cats and their meaning

Emit a cat can be classified into three broad groups:

• Rumbling (these sounds are issued at the closed mouth of the animal);
• Vowel sounds (most often published, what we call meow, published when the mouth is closed);
• Intensive high volume sounds (published under widely disclosed and tense the jaws).

Within these subgroups, there are a wide variety of sounds. Some of whom are familiar to most cat owners, most of them is identical. Among the well-known sounds are the following:

• Standard meow (most often used when searching for attention, communication with the host and offspring);
• Klatsat sounds (characterize the state of excitement and frustration of the animal, for example, when the animal sees a favorite toy or a treat, but can not get to it);
• Growl (sound characterizes the threat, warns the animal's readiness to defend their interests);
• Squeaking (mostly small kittens is published to attract the attention of his mother);
• Hissing (often converted to other animals or expressed threat may be a sign of the fear experienced by the cat);
• "Cat Concerto" (a set of sounds used in mating season to find a partner);
• Purring (can express a state of complete satisfaction, and used as a sedative when stressful situations);
• Yelp (emitted when the animal feels a sudden pain or distress);
• Chirping (friendly sound is most often used for a host of greeting or other cats).

Reasons not to stop the meowing of cats

 Very often, ongoing, bored meowing animal due to the fact that the cat is realized that by means emit a certain sound can get to meet their needs.

This phenomenon may turn into a habit, and your pet will meow more and more often. It can be very uncomfortable, especially if the cat does not stop meowing all night or all day. How to get rid of the cat's habits?

First of all the owner has to completely ignore meow, as in this case, it uses your pet to meet their needs (such as food). So you have to not give food when the animal emits irritating sound of you, but rather to feed the cat only when she behaves quietly. Absolutely identical to behave in the case when the animal continuously meow is asking you to play with him or pet him.

Do not scold the animal and do not shout at him when it meows, it's useless. If the above steps for ignoring does not work, then you may have to resort to extreme measures in the form of a spray. The method consists in the fact that the cat's meow will have to splash on it some water from the sprinkler. This method may not seem slushkom humane, as some animals such an unexpected shower can be intimidating, but harm your pet, he did not inflict.