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doctored_up t1_j5dayik wrote

I work from home with a giant siberian or norwegian and we have full on conversations. His cat vocab is outstanding.

My other cat is a tabby, several years older, and never meowed until we adopted his brother as a kitten. He picked up pretty quickly and now lets out the most god awful moans that are supposed to be meows. He was 11 years old when he first meowed lol

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nouille07 t1_j5es32i wrote

Our Norwegian started meowing at 14 like a kitten just after our other cat who was always meowing passed away. Made no sense to us

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2MB26 t1_j5gr870 wrote

Same with ours. My cat (absolutely adored her, we grew up together) died recently and was always shouting at me. Her sister was silent.

Suddenly her sister is meowing at me all day. First time she did it she sounded just like my Luna, that was a bit of a moment.

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FatQuack t1_j5habs5 wrote

I had something similar happen.

The oldest and most vocal cat passed away and it was like the younger one said "Well I guess it's my job now. That food bowl ain't gonna fill itself!"

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DirkNowitzkisWife t1_j5flcs4 wrote

My Norwegian will talk to me too! He will legitimately answer me and meow at me as long as I’m talking to him, and it’s always responding to me, I love it

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mongmight t1_j5fjni5 wrote

Growing up my mate had a cat that would not even acknowledge people. It would lift its tail and present its cat pussy to me though and meow. It was practically a party trick, I'd call her and sure enough, cat vag. Guess I'm a thundercat.

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Tex-Rob t1_j5ghlu6 wrote

One of my absolute favorite things about cats is how they learn from other cats, and adapt to their environments. We have one who just about never made a sound for his first 5 or 6 years, then two little ginger littermates that look just like him came along and they all talk a ton now, to us, to each other, trying to get the 3rd one to come join, etc.

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