Cats have a reputation for being aloof and unfriendly, but many cat owners say that their pets are actually very caring and ...

While meowing back at your cat is usually harmless (and even fun), there are times when it can cause confusion or, worse, ...

Whenever my cat meows incessantly in my direction despite my attempts to play with him, I so wish I could just speak meow to figure out what he really wants. (Though I'd place my bets on it being ...

“To her,” wrote another, “she was meowing so loud and clear.” ...

The team hypothesised that men “require more explicit vocalisations to notice and respond to the needs of their cats.” In ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wondering about the cat’s meow? No, we’re not talking about the 2001 Kirsten Dunst flick. The English language is riddled with ...

For years, people have guessed what their cats meant with each meow, chirp, or growl. Sometimes it’s obvious—a hungry stare or a tail flick. Other times, it feels like there’s a secret language ...

Cat owners have long suspected that their feline friends can recognize and understand them. Now, they have scientific proof. A study, published in the journal Animal Cognition, has demonstrated how ...

While raising a deaf cat is a lot like raising a hearing cat, there are certain very distinct differences. Not only can they not hear you when you call their name, but when they meow, some cats are ...

These sounds are from a library of 440 cat meows collected for scientific research called CatMeows: A Publicly-Available Dataset of Cat Vocalizations. They are protected by Creative Commons ...