Cats' Meowing: Why They Meow & What it REALLY Means!

When cats' meow, it has some fascinating aspects to it...and what it really means will surprise you!

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:10 The Meow
04:17 Human Response to the Meow
05:20 When a Meow Isn't a Meow
06:52 Can Humans Identify a Meow
07:46 Meowing is a Relationship

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[chrisstevens]

OK peeps, now for the important question! How many of you meow back to your cat as a response?

[michaeldob]

My cat somehow learned to mimic my daughters voice in the middle of the night. My daughter would wake up and say mama in a high pitched muffled voice. My cat learned that we'd jump out of the bed when we heard that sound. After a while, she'd make that exact sound in the middle of the night when she'd get bored and wanted attention. She'd actually make the sound a couple of times and change her pitch and when she had it right, she'd do it louder to wake us up. It was an amazing behaviour.

[tammyt]

My roommate's cat recently came out while I was dressing for work, granted me the sweetest little meow, and returned to her usual sleeping spot. This is unusual behavior for her, so I choose to believe she was wishing me a Happy Birthday.

[LaurenLucia]

I love my cats' meows. I know exactly what they're asking for. There's a meow for treats, a meow for attention, a meow for me to follow them to a thing they want, a meow for me to lift a blanket for them to snuggle under... they have such a developed language :)

[AaronSmith-kryf]

I adopted a cat based solely on her meowing like crazy at my front door. I'd seen her around for a week or so, little tortoiseshell female. Hell she even dropped me a dead mouse on my front door mat. Well one day she just started meowing LOUDLY at my front door, opened the door, she rubbed all up on me, I scratched her back. Opened the screen door, she bolted right in, went around and sniffed everything real good and then started rubbing on my legs again. Fed her a can of tuna(she ate it all lol) and gave her some water, after that she was MY KITTY. Laid on my lap, slept right next to my belly, pretty much she was literally attached to me for the next 48 hours or so until I left for work, every day after I came home from work she stuck to me like glue for that next week lol. Had no pets, ZERO intentions of getting another cat(I've had them in the past), yet here I am with a cat, I absolutely ADORE her.

[jenn]

Our cat comes in from her catio and meows...we think she wants to know where we are. Everyone in our house will meow back and say "We're upstairs!" Or "We're downstairs!" And she'll come running! She's my first cat I've ever had...and we are enjoying her so much! 🥰

[claudiabcarvalho]

When I had a cat in my preteen years, I realized that I could distinguish between every meow of my Binka. I knew when he meant "water", "food", the greeting meow, everything. He was a great cat ❤️

[lellepad]

I had my oldest cat for like…7 years before she even made a sound. FREAKED ME OUT when I heard it 😆

[lisalu]

I have had my first cat for a year now and she absolutely has a vocabulary of different meows. The funniest is the one for playing hide-and-seek. When she wants my attention, she will go down the hall, hide around a corner, and call me with "Maow...Maow...Maow.." until I come and then she leaps out at me with her paws outstretched, kind of a "Gotcha." She loves this game and will "get me" every time. The "maow?" with a question intonation means, "where are you?" when she's walking around looking for me. A friendly little "mrrrp" means "there you are, I was looking for you and now I found you." A demanding "Me-OW, Me-OW!" in the morning means, "Hey are you ever getting up?" An anxious "Mew! Mew! Mew!" means "feed me!" Like Jackson's kitty, she will "squeak" when it's treat time (she is trained to scratch on her scratching mat to get the treat - I'm trying to redirect her from scratching on the furniture.) Until I got this cat, I never knew they were so funny, and really do communicate with their humans.

[sanchitoboc]

Jackson, I'm very glad that I watched your videos before getting my two cats. I studied psychology in undergrad then went to law school, so interpreting how people behave is still a huge part of my job. I ended up adopting two littermates (a bro and a sis) and have had them for almost a year now. Time after time, people tell me how amazing my cats are and how they are not like any other cats they have ever met. I take time every day to play with them, to "chat" with them, and to give them new things to do as well as give them occasional treats. I'm glad I have had your guide to understand my pets, it has given me such a better understanding of how we can get the most out of each other. Again, thank you!

[jerielcontreras]

It's the same as when babies called for attention. My cat can even point out what's he's meowing is all about by going directly in his point of attention and that's the fridge.😅

[hellokimmy]

One of our kitties has a certain "non-meow" that she always does when she's waiting for dinner. She'll open her mouth and make the formation that a meow should come out of, but it's totally silent. And she does it very deliberately, too. Of course, we always love on her and laugh and tell her what a sweet kitty she is when she does it, and then she always gets dinner, immediately after, so she's totally learned how to work that. It's just funny. She'll "meow" silently, and my husband and I will say in the most pitiful voice "she's...

[kmryan]

Jackson, I’ve read all of your books. Watched every episode of your show. You made me feel less alone for how much I feel attached to cats. I’ve studied their behavior since I was a kid and you’ve taught me so much over time. You are amazing.

[cazzaj]

My girly puss who has been so silent is meowing with my new boy. He is a talker and it's making me so happy seeing her bloom and to hear her having a voice 😊

[robburgess]

Our cat like to "mrrp". In the morning when I get up, if she didn't sleep with me, she'll run down the hallway and say She'll make other sounds during the day but that morning "you're still alive! I've missed you!" is my favourite.

[Orpheus]

I also have a talker (has been ever since she was a kitten) and sometimes we even hold two-sided conversations (at least I like to think that, I don't know what she's thinking) because she responds with her own "words" to literally anything I tell her. Most of her "vocabulary" consists of quiet meows, chirps and squeaks but when it's really urgent, she will yell at me from the top of her lungs (like when her food is 5 minutes late). The funny thing is that only I can understand what she is trying to say, the other family members are always asking how do I know what she wants (a bug on the ceiling, petting, food, treats, play and so on) but that's what happens if you form a very close bond with an animal so you don't even need words to understand them, you just look at them and know exactly what they need right now. Sometimes when she walks past me, she chirps just to acknowledge my presence as if saying "I know you're here". And sometimes she makes this funny worried noise when I sneeze or cough (it's between a squeak and a chirp) as if to ask if I'm alright.

[jamesbenthul]

I've had two cats that meowed for dogs. One of them meowed for a horse. I think they recognized they were fellow companion animals, just not cats.

[lindseyrauss]

I never knew that cats don’t meow to each other, but once you said that I notice now that my new kitten never mews to her older big brother (a cat as well of course) but is incredibly vocal with me. That’s so sweet!

[Theprodigypenguin]

My cat will greet me when I get home, and she has a specific meow for if I get home late, and another when she's yelling at me cuz it's bedtime which means cuddle time 🥰 she knows our schedule perfectly. Sometimes she'll just meow because she wants me to talk back and knows I'll reply to her meows. I love her so much.

[blcx]

The last study told me a lot about how much my boi and I understand each other so well. I understand much about how our actions and reactions and vocalizations have evolved over the course of his life with me. Im so blessed to have this relationship with him.