Last night, as we were going to go to bed(11:30) we heard a sound outside.
wooooooooo,like a soft howling.
Then a wowowowowowow.
It was a cat!
I didn’tknow they made noises like that.
Another cat came by to check on it (because of the sound), but it was okay and left after a few minutes.
What did that mean? Was it sad?
Could have been a female in heat. They make the most incredible sounds you ever heard. I doubt the other cat was “checking on it” out of concern.
Or it might have been a mom cat that had just caught something and was calling her kittens.
Sounds like a warning, or a fight, to me. That’s the sound my boy cat makes when he means business.
We’re pretty sure it was our neighbors cat (not next door,farther) .
We know most of the neighborhood cats personally.
It s an orange coon.
Its female,but fixed (or they wouldn’t let it out!)
The other cat left,without fighting or anything.
It was fascinating.
owowowowowo, sortof low voiced.
My male will do that, sometimes. He’ll be sitting in the window and start a kinda yowl, then it’ll go deeper, and sound almost like a human imitating a cat. meowrowOWOWOW. It crack us up every time, but we’re still gonna get him fixed soon.
Yes!
but…whatzit mean?:dubious:
When my cats do it, it’s a warning or a challenge. The cat making the noise is saying, in effect, “You want a piece of ME? Huh?” and the other cat then has to decide whether it’s worth the risk of getting his or her butt kicked in order to avoid the ignominy of backing off and ceding the territory (it’s all about territory, when the cats are fixed). Cats generally do far more vocalizing than actual fighting.
My own biggest cat makes the most horrendous sounds to our new 3-month-old kitten, who looks at him in wide-eyed, baby-faced wonder, backs off, and then comes right back to try playing with the big kitty some more. As time goes by, his yowling is becoming less awful and he’s occasionally taking part in some playful skirmishes instead of just warning the little guy off.
Ah!
That explains why the other cat,which cameby,left without a word.
The coon, she’s a toughie!
Hop-a-Long, they call her.
That noise could well be what I gruesomely refer to as “a baby in a blender.” My female cat makes it when she wants the other cats to get the hell away from her. It’s a threat.
However, I had this male cat who used to sing. Yes, he was fixed, but he used to stand in places (like the end of the corridor in my building) and go “wrowwrowwrow” in a very deep voice, for long periods of time. There were no other cats around. This cat also liked music quite a bit, and I used to fancy he was singing. Maybe this kitty was just sounding her barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.