They're not making a statement about how your shoe smells, they're gathering more information. Your cat's sense of smell is so essential to them that they actually have an extra olfactory organ that very few other creatures have, the Jacobson's organ.
It's located on the roof of their mouth behind their front teeth and is connected to the nasal cavity. When your cat gets a whiff of something really fascinating, they open their mouth and inhale so that the scent molecules flow over the Jacobson's organ. This intensifies the odor and provides more information about the object they're sniffing.
The cat's meow. Understanding feline language. Vocalizing You'll learn a lot when you can interpret your cat's wide vocabulary of chirps and meows. Meowing is all-purpose; your cat may be using "meow" as a greeting, a command, an objection or an announcement. Some people have observed their cats walking around the house meowing to themselves. Chirps and trills are how a mother cat tells their kittens to follow them.
Aimed at you, it probably means your cat wants you to follow them, usually to their food bowl. If you have more than one cat, you'll often hear them converse with each other this way. Purring is usually a sign of contentment. Cats purr whenever they're happy, even while they're eating. Sometimes, however, a cat may purr when they're anxious or sick, using their purr to comfort themselves, like a child sucking their thumb. When does meowing become excessive? All cats are going to meow to some extent—this is normal communication behavior.
But some cats meow more than their pet parents would like. There are pets who meow noisily, and others who rarely open their mouths. Some use an array of different sounds, including clicking noises and little chirps Siamese cats are particularly prone to chirping at people.
Some cats are even mute, although they may still open and close their mouth at you in an attempted meow. Having said that, there are some sounds that tend to be quite standard. You might find this little guide a helpful way to interpret some of what your cat is trying to tell you:. But is there any way of communicating with your cat on her own terms?
Well, yes — but unfortunately, most parts of cat language that we can easily master are a bit on the negative side! Sadly, positive cat sounds like purring is pretty much impossible for humans to replicate.
They also use body language, touch and smell to communicate. Cats that are friends rub their cheeks against each other's body. They may also blink calmly to signal security and friendship. They have a much better sense of smell than humans and can release odours that work almost like a scent language.
When another cat comes by half an hour after a cat has rubbed against something, it can read this scent information. So their language is much more advanced than just meowing. But then again, kitty has learned that with people, it works much better to emit a little meow than to expect them to read its face or smell that it's time to eat.
Read the Norwegian version of this article at forskning. Come and play. Ingrid P. Nuse English version. October - Photo: Lars Gustafsson. University of Oslo.
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