Last night, my cat and I were hanging out in my bedroom with the window open. Neighbor dogs started barking. My cat heard them, and he started growling. He growled for quite a while, and then… it happened. One of the growls ended in a “ooof!” Now I have seen it all. He does live with four dogs (all pugs) so I guess he’s just figured out how to blend in.
That’s funny. Do your pugs meow? I ask in all seriousness - my girly pug definitely has a meow sound, and I’m not sure if she’s ever even seen a cat.
They do whine, especially the youngest, who’s just barely over being a puppy, and especially if they itch a lot, which is quite a bit. What’s up with that itching with pugs, anyway, amirite?
Firstly your post title really tickled me and made me laugh. Secondly I have a 4 year old neutered male cat who has made a kind of bark-like “hurumph” noise when he got annoyed at failing to get my full attention as I was on the laptop. He kind of made the cat sound for disgust and frustration rolled into one noise.
For your edification, I present Barking Cat.
Ha- that was hilarious… the way he’s like, “Oh, I wasn’t barking… see? Meow!”
When Buzz (named after the Astronaut) barked it seemed to come from his nose rather than his meow box. The cat in the video is clearly a dog language expert.
Mine don’t overly itch, unless they’re getting ear infections. One of 'em licks her paws a lot and she likes to lick my feet as well. Not sure what’s up with that, but she’s done it forever.
Our largest female cat quacks.
I’m not sure why.
My German Shepherd moos.
Video, people, I need video!
On a related note, the elderly pug does this really super-loud screaming thing when she can’t reach her itch, like WOWOWOWOWOWOW! I really need to put that on youtube- it’s so freaky.
My cat (now almost 13) once ran away while I was gone on business; he spent three weeks “lost,” roaming the shores of the Baltic. When an old woman knocked on my door one Sunday evening and told be he was out in back of our building, I ran out and started calling his name. The only reply I got was (I swear!) the screeching of seabirds. I followed the sound and there he was, laying on top of a fence post, all skin and bones.
He screeched again and looked at me as if to say “Where the hell have YOU been?!?”
I’ve got barking frogs. Hadn’t mentioned it before because I’d assumed everyone else did too.
My husband shears he has barking spiders in his back pockets, even when he’s not wearing any.
Probably checking for an echo.
And people say learning a second language is useless!
I was walking home yesterday, and a crow was yakking it up in a tree. At one point, I swear it made a sound like a barking dog. I know crows are great mimics, but that’s the first time I heard that!
(It could have been a dog in the neighbourhood, too - I’m not discounting that.)
One of my cats squeaks. It sounds just like a squeeky toy. It’s freaking adorable!
My other cat couldn’t get the hang of the litter box with a door. She finally (after 24 hours) gave up and peed outside the box. It sounded like the raptors in Jurassic Park (but louder).
Needless to say, I removed the door.
Thank God for that final sentence. For a second I thought you walked up on a bunch of seagulls feasting on his corpse.
One of my cats has his normal meow, then he has a meow that perfectly mimics my other cat’s meow. If I ignore him, he’ll switch to the other meow and see if that works.
My fiancee’s cat kind of squeaks. He goes “meh-eh-eh.”