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What little things do you have with your cat/dog that you think are unique or idiosyncratic? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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With all my cats: I like to do a cat scratch gesture like catwoman from a distance while we all laze around (again, from a distance).

Its like miming scratching a non-existant surface and they intuit that the imaginary surface I'm scratching is them.

Also "we" call scratching "scratcheese" lol

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I speak with my cats in different languages - Portuguese (L1) with Kika, German with Siegfrieda (when I adopted her I was studying the language).

I like "kneading" Siegfrieda while purring. I call it Kätzrach (Kätzensrache, lit. "kittens' revenge"). She seems to enjoy it quite a bit, too.

Kika on the other hand gets gentle buttslaps since she's rather ticklish so she hates when her fur gets stroked. It's gentle but that doesn't stop the folks here from saying that she's "apanhando" (lit. "being spanked").

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Do cats say Meow in diff'rent dialects?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't think so. Although a research on the impact of different languages on the pets' vocalisations would be cool.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I was being cute but thanks haha. People just notate is different, like sometimes people joke about Chinese-owned cats saying "Mao" 😹