Meows

I have a cat. She meows. A lot. She meows when we're walking down the hallway to our condo unit. She meows hello when we walk in the door, throwing herself on the floor and rolling, begging for petting. She meows when she wants her food. She meows when she wants to play. She meows when we all leave downstairs and come upstairs for the night -- even though she knows where we are, she wants one of us to come get her. One of my daughters eventually calls to her, before walking downstairs to pick her up and bring her up with us. Usually, it's my youngest. My older daughter just went downstairs to get her after the wailing started. I swear, when my youngest get off the bus on the corner of our building, our cat knows and starts meowing for her.

Our cat meows for many different reasons, but it all boils down to one thing: she wants us to do something, and meowing eventually gets one of us to do something. With me, it's to chase her around the house so she runs away and hide. Cat owners know this. What we may not know however, is that our cats meow just for us. It's their second language. It's how they speak to humans. Cats you see, don't talk to each other in meows. Instead, they communicate with gentle "mews" as kittens to mothers, obscene caterwauls for mating, chattering when hunting, hissing when warning an intruder and shrieking when in pain. Meows it seems, was developed over time, to cat to interactions with humans. Follow this link to find out what your cat is trying to say with her meows.