Re: Spoken Cat (was Brithenig)

Sally Caves wrote:
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> Sylvia Sotomayor wrote:
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> > Mine can talk to birds. It's an odd chirruping language.
>
> Mine, too.  But I don't think she's talking to the birds.  She's talking
> to herself, expressing her aggressive excitement: her lips curl back,
> and
> she bleats--her whiskers shimmering--the syllables of predation:
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>                 mye heh heh heh heh heh heh
>                 mye heh heh heh heh heh heh
>
Yes! One of my cats does that now, and two cats of the past did that.
One of them would also do this towards squirrels.

Laurie
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