can cats communicate to each other through meowing?

Answer 1

Meow meow meow meow meow meow me-ow mmmeeeeeooowwww mehaaaaaaow meow meow.

Thats cat for you think.

Answer 2

Cats generally don't use meowing as a form of communication with others of their species. As you can see from this excerpt from craftycat.co.uk cats have learned that their voice is the best way to communicate with their humans as this is how humans communicate...

Cat behaviour reference section
Voice
Domestic cats vocalise in a very different way to their wild relations. When your cat is hungry and you are custodian of the tin opener he will meow at you - what he is doing is demonstrating learned behaviour. This is a bond unique to feline, human relationships.
The cat is incredibly adaptable and a great observer and learner. The cat will see that we communicate by sound and therefore the cat has adapted and learnt this variation of communication. When he is hungry he meows and this produces food. When he is restless he will produce a yowl and you play with him.

The more you talk and interact with your cat the more he will communicate, and you will understand what he is trying express.

Some breeds are inherently more vocal anyway, like the siamese and other Orientals. Others such as Abyssinians and Persians are known for being less vocal.

Studies have shown that the cat makes 16 distinct vocal patterns broken into three sound pattern groups, murmour, vowel and high intensity patterns. The cat vocabulary doesn't translate to words but the cats emotional state.

The murmour
Murmours are made with the mouth closed. they indicate friendliness and contentment. These sounds are include purring, requests or greetings, calls and acknowledgements.

Vowel patterns
These are more typical meow sounds and are made by opening and closing the mouth. These sounds include demands, bewilderment, begging, complaints and anger wails.

High intensity
These sounds are made by holding the mouth open and forcing breath through the mouth. These sounds are made when the cat is in a highly emotional state such as growls, snarls, mating cries, pain and spitting.

Answer 3

Cats communicate using many types of meows. At some point, your cat will probably have used each of them when conversing with you. Meowing is typically a cat-to-human interaction, although kittens will use it to communicate with their mothers. Meows are usually calls for attention, especially short meows. Meows with increased duration convey a sense of urgency--we may hear it when cats are requesting to be fed. Prolonged meows may also indicate distress, especially when paired with restlessness or pacing.

They also growl, chirp and chatter to communicate to each other.

Answer 4

They do, but I think that's more when they're having a bit of a face off. They meow a lot when they talk to their humans, too.

I think they communicate more through some kind of telepathy - have you ever watched cats together? Two of mine don't like each other, but there's no vocalisation - they merely sit and stare at each other for a couple of minutes, and then one walks off. I would love to know what they're saying!!!

Answer 5

yes, my two of my 4 cats talk in the baby talk kind of meow not really meowing but sounds more like they are crying. The biggest cat would just hiss to get across her message and the one other cat would just look at the others either ticked off or like she is about to lunge at the others.

Answer 6

Sure that is how they talk to each other! One of the cutest things I ever saw was watching two stray cats (There was a rather large group of strays living in the garage out back of my Apt. Complex.) sitting facing each other and they were meowing at each other having a conversation. For real! I think one was telling the other to not move into this group of that there was no females for him or something like that. There was no fight because after several minutes of talking one walked away. so cute.

Answer 7

I don't know if it is communicating, but my cats start each other off meowing for their dinner, and they know to meow to be let out, although i never really see them sat meowing to each over the lastest tom but lots of nose rubbing goes on

Answer 8

To a certain extent, although they tend to vocalise more around kittens than adults, unless it's the angry "this is my turf" miaow. That is why cats vocalise so much around humans, they see us as kittens or somehow "defective" creatures. The greeting "chirp" many cat lovers hear from their cats is how a mother cat calls her kittens. Among adults a lot more is communicated by gestures (ears, tail, whiskers, posture) and touch than vocalisation.

Answer 9

Yes of course they can, just as dogs communicate to eachother verbally as well. Of course that is not the only way they communicate, but it is a main one.

Answer 10

obviously.
whilst humans talk i.e. english to each other
french to each other
and so on.
cats meow to each other.
as long as your languages are the same
then you understand each other.
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