My cat has a somewhat limited vocabulary. Which is fine, he communicates via other means. LIke sinking his claws into my calf, showing me his excretory orifice, ramming his head into my arm, etc.
His basic word is “wow”. That’s why I named him Wowbagger. It’s his standard response/exclamation, the one he uses most frequently in most situations. Sometimes he’ll say “mewow” too, but not quite as frequently.
He also says “quack” a lot, usually when he’s contented. Note that he doesn’t quack like a duck, he really says “quack”.
Two nights ago the Mrs. and I were watching “Avenue 5” and Wowbagger was sitting on my lap, being about as communicative as he ever gets. Whenever I touched him lightly, he would say “quack”. This went on for about 9 “quack” responses before he sort of got tired of it and stopped.
The Mrs. and I discussed briefly both the charms and anguish associated with having a cat who says “quack”. I closed out the conversation by noting to my wife that at least Wowbagger doesn’t say “fuck”.
Then I patted his head and he quite clearly responded by saying “fuck”.
I must admit, I lost it after that, and couldn’t breathe for laughing for about the next 2 minutes.
He hasn’t repeated the word, but I admit I haven’t really encouraged him.
Further updates will be issued if and when events warrant.
Mine sits by the side door begging to be let out, and I SWEAR it sounds like “Let me out!”
(“Mew-MEOW!” try it.)
He’ll also make these sweet, peeping little mewls to beg for canned food. If I ignore him, he switched to a more commanding “MOW!” which if he isn’t saying “Now!” …
Before he was catnapped, I used to take my Siamese, named Thai-Thai, for a walk around our apartment complex when I got home from work. After a lot of this, when I got home and closed the door before our walk, he would jump up and hang on the inside door knob. I could swear I heard him say “Meout!”
I had a roommate in college who had a black cat that couldn’t meow, only quack. Actually, more like a croak, but it was more fun (and probably less ambiguous) to say the cat quacked instead of the cat croaked.
Here he is some years back, docked in his charging station. One eye is slightly green, one slightly red, indicating he’s not fully charged yet. He’s currently 15+ years and slowing down a bit, less eager to jump up on high surfaces.
That would be hilarious if this is the answer. " Hmm…Now that Qadgop is retired and hanging around the house all day, I need a new way to mess with him. I know, I’ll make it sound like the cat is swearing at him. Probably get a couple years out of that until he catches on."
I have a very talkative cat. He was pestering me for his dinner, I loudly and forcefully told him, “No, it’s not time yet!” As he ran out of the room to go sulk, I swear I heard him say “Not Fair”.
