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Originally Posted by badgerwatcher  Oh, yes, I am being serious, Owl-light. I will be practising those calls. I love talking to creatures and have them reply. I currently speak a smattering of cat, and a little coloquial curlew!  And of course telepathy is handy with the dog!  |
I was only joking about the Dr Doolittle bit
Curlew? Interesting I wouldn't know where to start there.
I'm reasonably fluent in Cat, but each cat has it's own range of individual vocalisations which you have to listen to and tune into first. It's a delight when they immediately echo a sound you know they make sometimes and make to them. Sometimes I manage to recognise certain signs and second guess what they're about to say and they seem to love that. I have long conversations with my lot. Don't always know what we're saying to each other but we
are communicating and reinforcing the bonds between us all the same. They clearly get as much out of it as I do
A lot of animal communication is in body language so you need to be able to read that too even if you can't exactly reproduce it. But with a cat even the polite 'no threat' blink is something even people who live with cats often fail to understand. Rituals and etiquette are very important to felines. I guess that's why some people think of them of cold and aloof. From a cats point of view, you can only try to communicate with someone for so long before finding their lack of acknowledgement really rather rude and give up on them.
My problem is, spending so much time with cats, when I meet a dog I tend to offer them the 'no threat' blink too. The blank look in their big brown eyes makes me remember oops, wrong species
I'd be interested to know more about
Badger body language. If you can tell me anything about it I'd appreciate it