How hungry cats get the food bowl filled

[Roon]

A cat's purr normally says, "I'm happy." But a new study suggests some purrs send cat owners a much different message: "Feed me!"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31891439/ns/health-pet_health/

[Gormy Cuss]

1. I wish that mine would purr for hunger rather than caterwaul

but the study is pretty cool.

[rug]

2. .

http://www.animalvoice.com/catpurrP.htm

[supernova]

3. When I've stepped on my kittens by mistake

they sound very much like a crying baby.

Scary.

:scared:

:D

:-( Hate it when I do that.

[charlie and algernon]

4. my cat whines very much like a little kid

if I'm holding her and she wants to get down, she'll whine and it sounds exactly like a human whine.

[Forkboy]

5. My old cat used to drag his bowl to the middle of the kitchen floor.

Kind of hard to miss that hint. :)

[suninvited]

7. Mine did that, too

mostly his water bowl, he was a very thirsty cat. And if that didnt bring us running he would start dragging it to whatever room I was in.

[Skittles]

17. hey Forkboy

I kept wondering why the cat bowl was in the middle of the living room floor when I came home from work - finally saw when my two cats went for the bowl, wicked Riff Raff would stick his paw in it and pull it away from old Clancy. This happened over and over until bowl migrated quite a distance. Trying to solve the dilemma of poor old Clancy not getting to eat, I put down two bowls, then three - but Riff Raff always hits the one old Clancy is trying to eat from. :mad:

[Strong Atheist]

6. Recommended,

dammit! x(

[tabbycat31]

8. mine just whacks me across the face with his paw

[Skittles]

11. once when I was sleeping I got the paw mashed into my nose

:mad:

[tabbycat31]

20. the paw scratches me if I ignore it

I deal wtih this every morning at 4 am

[Skittles]

21. a non-cat person asked me why I simply don't shut the bedroom door

non-cat people are truly clueless, aren't they?

[TZ]

22. lol. I get that alot as well

My cats will paw and scratch at me in the middle of the night as well. Shutting the door isn't a solution in my house

[tabbycat31]

24. yes they are

if I do that, I get meowing and the door scratched at all night.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

25. I once tried to outlast a crying cat --

who was unhappy I had closed the bedroom door, trying to sleep in.

She lasted three hours. And had pulled several shirts left on the floor under the door with her paw.

I lasted 3 hours and one second. :D

[Skittles]

27. you have ENDURANCE my friend

the constant rattling of the door as the paw goes back and forth underneath it is like fingernails on a blackboard to me :mad:

[Hell Hath No Fury]

29. I did it as an experiment --

to find out if I ignored the situation, how long it would take for her to stop. I thought I would be able to use the result to my benefit in the future.

My stoopid.

[applegrove]

9. Mine will meow and herd me when his bowl is near empty of dry cat food. I'm such a sucker I fall for

it every time.

[Skittles]

12. "herd me" LOLOL

perfect description - the cat sticks close to your feet and makes it so the only path you can take leads straight to the food bowl :D

[Brigid]

13. You haven't been truly owned by a cat . . .

until said cat has herded you to the food bowl. :rofl:

[applegrove]

14. LOL!

[Skittles]

16. my cat Clancy is a herder

he's very nearly made me fall flat on my face more than a few times :o

[applegrove]

15. LOL!

[Brigid]

10. When my dear departed Hamlet was still with us . . .

he'd wake me up to feed him by sitting on my chest. At 17 pounds, he didn't have to be subtle. :)

[TreasonousBastard]

18. Sebastion would jump on the bed and...

bite me on the ass if I didn't get up early enough to feed him.

[Mist]

19. If I take too long getting up in the morning, my cat sticks her cold little nose on an eyelid. Time

for breakfast!

[schmuls]

26. Ha! That's really funny. Lucy puts her cold wet nose on mine.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

23. Or "Feed me steak, not that nasty dry cat food!"

That's what Tails is saying at times when he purrs.

[TrogL]

28. I just put out a bigass bucket of food

...and fill it from a 5 kg bag when it gets half-empty.

However, I get the same purring noise for "pet me, dammit" or "stop petting me, dammit" or "you will scratch my ears or be damned to the bowels of the netherworld forever".