CATS - COMMUNICATION · Cat communication is the range of methods by which cats communicate with other cats, humans and other animals. · Communication methods include postures, movement, auditory and chemical signals. Meowing · A meow is a sound used by cats to signal a request to their mother or owner. When communicating with human beings, adult cats express variations of this tone to demand food or attention, register complaints, and convey bewilderment. An alteration in tone, pace, or punctuation changes the meaning, however slight. Purring · A purr is a sound made by most species of felids, but most large felines like tigers do not. A
Deaf white cats are banned from exhibition or breeding by some fancies in Europe and there is a move to reduce or eliminate this trait from British breeding lines of various breeds. Deafness can cause problems because a cat cannot hear danger approaching. It can cause problems to breeders because deaf female cats cannot hear their kittens crying out and may neglect them. Deaf kittens cannot hear their mother calling to them and may get lost. Deaf cats also seem to have no volume control when meowing. For more information see Living With a Deaf Cat. NOTES 1. THE "ALBINO SIAMESE" Feline geneticist Don Shaw, writing in Cats Magazine, September 1972 to February 1973, looked into the so-called Albino Siamese and wrote that not all so called Albino Siamese were true genetic albinos and that many are blue-eyed whites of Siamese type (what we now call Foreign Whites). However, some Albino Siamese had pinkish-blue eyes rather than the clear blue of other blue-eyed white breeds
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