“If cats could talk, they wouldn’t.”
~Nan Porter~
Oh yeah?
My next cat is going to be mute, I swear
So that he is unable to voice despair
My next cat will not utter a yowl
or voice his neediness with a howl
My next cat will not cry at night
and respond to my obedience with delight
My next cat will not utter a kitty word
even when stalking a chirping bird
My next cat will be quiet as a mouse
No talking back in this house
My next cat will understand quiet
better than the usual noise of riot
My next cat will be tongue-tied, I assure
until for this Gibbs-speak there is a cure
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Mary J Melange 
Ha ha – I fully understand!
I think I hear Gibbs saying “pffffft, maybe if you fed me on time…”
Jeepers, Dan, the other day he was yowling AFTER I fed him…on time. There’s no pleasing that one, or he simply likes to hear his own voice. Lots.
That’s MuMu. I scratch her and brush her and then, five minutes later, she’s all “I haven’t been brushed in months!”
We could put the two of them in a room together…let ’email talk to each other all day long!
Sometimes, I’d be up for that. Say a room in Ohio.
LOL! Yes!
Thank goodness Mr. Bowie is a quiet cat… and sleeps all night long!
Yes, Herman, you are blessed with Mr. Bowie. Maybe he could bottle some of that quietness and ship it to Gibbs. 😉
i totally get this )
It is good to know I am not alone.
All of my cats have been quiet. And then there was Piper. I mentioned this to the vet (“She doesn’t stop talking!”). He says she looks like she has some Bengal in her and they are little chatterboxes.
Good luck with Piper. Perhaps ir’s better she talks to you than sits and glares at you all day. Right?
Ha! That’s a good way to think of it. Thanks, Mary! You were saying, Piper……
Nice one. My cat is usually quiet except when she isn’t.
It would be much better if all that caterwauling was purring instead.
We’ve had a lot of cats over the years, and there are some that don’t utter a peep for years, then suddenly they don’t shut up. Others are talkers their whole lives. One theory is that when they start losing their hearing, they’ll start howling just to make sure they can still hear themselves. I think they just get bored.
I know that Gibbs has not lost his hearing, but is without his human all day, so maybe he IS bored. It’s also another way to train me to pay attention to his forlorn being when he wants attention.
I grew up with Siamese cats so I get this. The yowling — I can still hear it. 🙂
Many moons ago, I was typing from dictation and heard a baby crying. The person dictating later told me it was her Siamese cat. Too funny!
My next cat is going to be….long to someone else.
I say that every bl**dy time, and then someone shows me some kittens and off I go again.
Love this post Mary. 🙂
Sending many squidges ~ Cobs. xxx
I went two weeks without a cat once. Worst two weeks of my life. 😋
I have this dream of being totally animal free so that I can take long leisurely days out at places I want to go to, …. ohh – and joy of joys maybe holidays away!!! . . . but I know in my heart that it’s never going to happen. I can’t seem to function properly without at the very least four paws in the house.
I totally understand, Cobs! 😺😺
Oh, forgot to add…love and squishes to you, Cobs!
And a special bucket of Thursday love and squidges to you too! ~ C. xxx
I understand. I have picked three noisy cats in my life. I tend to choose the talkers. But there are some times when… Well, you know.
Cletus seldom mews and he makes the most darling sounds. We all AW to him. However, he goes after Clara, who is quite a drama queen and the audibles are SHRILL.
Clara and Ziva could compare notes over the drama queen noises. My girl isn’t a talker, but she sure knows how to be histrionic when she’s mad at Gibbs.
Oh I bet!
I feel your pain 😏
Sassy kids! It’s probably a good thing they can’t speak English or they’d be constantly yelling at us about something.
hahaha!! Sometimes I do wonder what he’s going on about 🙂
Mine likes to sing the songs of his ancestors at 4am, despite the fact that he has a clean litter tray, food in his bowl and two beds… I dread to think what he would be like if he could talk…
Sing the song of his ancestors…LOL! Gibbs does that too, either after a visit to the litter box or because he doesn’t want to wait another hour or two for food. There’s no respect for the human’s sleep patterns!
I know! You’d think after the same routine for 12 years he would have figured it out by now…