Few animals display their mood via facial expressions as distinctly as cats.
Cats - a standing rebuke to behavioural scientists . . . least human of all creatures.
Cat talk is a complicated, self-centered language. If you speak to your cat first, it probably won't speak back. Cats initiate conversations.
Cats be talkin', "Bobby I ain't feelin' ya." But I bet if I was peelin' your cap back with a two-shot Dillinger Hot lead released from my cylinder, You'd be talkin' 'bout, "Bobby I'm feelin' ya!"
I will do just as you wish,' said no cat ever.
"All right", said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
When it meows, one scarcely hears it... It has not the need of words to speak the lengthiest phraseologies.
Cats ask plainly for what they want.
No one has ever been able to discover how they [cats] make this subtle sound, and what is more, no one ever will. It is a secret that has endured from the very beginning of the time of cats and will never be revealed.
Then it suddenly and theatrically began to clean itself in the way cats do when they want you to know what a big deal you aren't.
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
I communicate much better with cats, usually. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats are adept at reading subtle signals.
It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.
What was the first cat that talked a human into putting a cat door in?
Purring is not so different from praying. To a tree, a cat's purr is one of the purest of all prayers, for in it lies a whole mixture of gratitude and longing, the twin ingredients of every prayer.
