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My Cat Talks to Birds

by John Durham
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Im sitting here working.... and listening to my cat chirp at the window seel with the birds... he has done this for months, sits there and chirps back and forth with them making these little chicky sounds.... he sounds almost exactly like them I think he's got it! They appear to be talking back now!

Poor max has no testosterone, or claws, he couldnt make it on his own in the wild, he doesnt know what cats are really supposed to do, he doesnt know if hes a boy or a girl...he just sees other cats runnning around freely and wonders why he has to sit in the window "Perhaps I will make friends with the birds he thinks"... I really think enjoys and is more fascinated with being a bird than a cat. He is certainly becoming a very unique one at 2 1/2 human years.

I think he and the birds are really communicating now.
  • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
    I do the same thing.

    Seriously. When I take the dog out to do her job I imitate a black capped chickadee. They not only talk back, they'll fly to my yard from the neighbors yards and land on a branch near me, talking back the whole time.

    I know, I'm a bird brain.

    You should shoot a quick video of your cat chirping. I'd like to see that.
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    • Profile picture of the author Roaddog
      When I had cats I remember them doing that too.

      Almost shuddering of their lower jaw and funny sounds I never heard out of them before.

      I always thought they were telling those birds "If I had wings you @#$% you would be *&^%$ KFC by now."


      Hey Dennis G, where you been?


      Calls for a bird joke -

      Late one night, a burglar broke into a house that he thought was empty. He tiptoed through the living room but suddenly he froze in his tracks when he heard a loud condescending voice say: "Jesus is watching you!"

      Silence returned to the house, so the burglar crept forward again. "Jesus is watching you," the voice boomed again.

      The burglar stopped dead again. He was frightened. Frantically, he looked all around. In a dark corner, he spotted a bird cage and in the cage was a parrot.

      He asked the parrot: "Was that you who said Jesus is watching me?" "Yes", said the parrot.

      The burglar breathed a sigh of relief, then he asked the parrot: "What's your name?"

      "aaawk - Clarence," said the bird.

      "That's a dumb name for a parrot," sneered the burglar. "What idiot named you Clarence?"

      The parrot said, "aaawk - The same idiot who named the Rottweiler Jesus."
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      • Profile picture of the author John Durham
        Originally Posted by Roaddog View Post

        When I had cats I remember them doing that too.

        Almost shuddering of their lower jaw and funny sounds I never heard out of them before.

        I always thought they were telling those birds "If I had wings you @#$% you would be *&^%$ KFC by now."
        Turns out you were right Jim, I still have max here...and I finally felt too bad making him stay in all the time.... so I have been letting him go out and prowl at night for about a month now... funny, their rituals, he always sleeks around my ankles before he heads out so he wont forget how to get home...

        Anyway, since I let him out I have been finding birds, of the dead persuasion out on the back patio.... Im wondering if he just try's to play with them like a cat....and accidentally kills him.

        He has marks on his head now from this one mother bird that always starts squawking and doing dive bombs on his head when she sees him looking up her tree...

        But this is the best his life has ever been! Freedom... He has been an indoor cat all of his life looking out a window.
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  • Profile picture of the author Audrey Harvey
    I used to have two cats, and also a rabbit (had a permit, they're illegal in QLD). The rabbit would share the litter tray with the cats, and the cats would nibble on grass with the rabbit. They were great mates, and really funny to watch.
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  • Profile picture of the author KimW
    I am not a cat fan,but we have one we "inherited" from our daughter. You know, 8 year old begs mommy,please,can I have this kitten? I'll take care of it and feed it and changed the litter and blah blah blah. Fifteen years later the daughter is married and gone but the cat is still here.

    A couple of years ago some friends were having problems and had to give away some birds they had. They had two african greys. We took one of them. Her name was Gracie. I may have posted pics of her a few years back,Im not sure. We eventually got rid of her because she was messy,and my wife is a clean freak.
    I miss that bird.
    But I digress.
    I would open the cage door in the morning when I got up and Gracie would eventually climb out of the cage and down the side of the cage till she reached the floor.
    She would then walk around like she owned the place.
    Of course after all these years the cat thought she was the one that owned the house.
    She would come into the living room and lay on her back with her paws in the air and just look around.
    Well, when the cat would come in, Gracie would walk over and look the cat straight in the eye. Every single time Gracie did that, the cat would jump up and run up the stairs.
    Gracie would walk over to my feet and start trying to build a nest between them with the carpet.
    I miss that bird.
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  • Profile picture of the author Warrior AllStars
    You know I have always despised cats... until 2 years ago my grandmothers cat got pregnant, and I happened to be taking a 3 month break from my life at the time and staying out on their property... (Still makin deals online... I had this little place out in the back almost like a shed really... kind of a country back to your roots kinda place... I found it amazing though how you could be out in the middle of the OZARKS...after being in a big city for years... and when you get online...its like you never left the city...anyway Im off the point).

    After 20 years of being away pretty much I went back there...and stayed out on my family's little country claim of America (maybe 2 acres)... and set up a little office in a little shed and became a recluse for a few months, and this cat would always come around and keep me company back there...

    It got pregnant by a local Tom Cat and couldnt feed its babies... because it had no milk...My Grandmother called her "Bucky" she was a buck wild barnyard calico...

    I couldnt stand cats until that year... but anyway she had her little litter...and my grand mother said 'They are all gonna die...'

    Strangely at 40 years old that for the first time affected me... and I went to the local farmers co op and gopt some stuff and fed those cats for nine weeks with a dropper...

    It was the most simple weird desire of an experience I ever had... But now she has 6 Buckwild barnyard cats running around full grown...

    So went I went on my way again... The next place I landed was marriage, and Bon had this kitten... and well He's my dog now!

    Woops forgot I was in allstars.... guess you know who this one is.
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  • Profile picture of the author antiquenh
    Then why don't you get another cat so your pet has someone to talk and play with. You know so it can be more expose to cat stuff.
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    • Profile picture of the author John Durham
      Originally Posted by antiquenh View Post

      Then why don't you get another cat so your pet has someone to talk and play with. You know so it can be more expose to cat stuff.
      I did, I got him a kitten , about 5 months ago, a Bengal we named Spenster (the little runt) and now he's starting to chirp too! Seriously.
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  • Profile picture of the author gareth
    Show us the video mate - I've never seen a cat do that and I've lived with hmmm

    ...at least a dozen of them

    Now thats something to ponder while meditating one evening - all the pet cats I've ever lived with.
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    • Profile picture of the author John Durham
      Originally Posted by gareth View Post


      Now thats something to ponder while meditating one evening - all the pet cats I've ever lived with.
      Do I hear Willie Nelson singing "To all the Cats I've loved before"? I will try to get a vid, he's at the window waiting as usual for his friends...but its raining a bit and the birds are hiding. So he's crouching down... he thinks the havent come because they see him or something.... cats are so funny. Bewildered look, why havent my friends come today?
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  • Profile picture of the author royced
    My Cat eats birds
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  • Profile picture of the author noangel
    Cats are my favourite people!
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  • Profile picture of the author DazedandConfused
    You should be glad your cat only talks to them...it's the constant texting that will drive you crazy!
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  • Profile picture of the author Lori Kelly
    Have you seen the video of the cat barking? The cat barks until he realizes he is being watched and starts meowing. It's hilarious.

    Roaddog, good joke.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Guard dog, Errr... Cat? :confused:

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  • Profile picture of the author DazedandConfused
    C'mon, - that's a Chihuahua in a Cat Suit!
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