Thread: Chirruping

I've had my girl a full year now & I am still not used to it.

Her chirrup, me & hubbie agreed last night, sounds like "awwwww" as in the same intonation in "but awwww mum that's not fair!" so we always assume a chirrup means something's wrong!!!! She's a proper little chatterbox. Never heard a meow though.

Anyone else's coonie do the same?

Yeah I think Harry has a different chirp for different things, he has a proper conversation with us, but we can only guess as to what he's saying, bit like having a conversation with a baby really.

Do your MC's chirp from when they are kittens?
Both Loki and Storvenn have more of a meow than a chirp and only occassionaly do i hear anything close to it.

Originally Posted by Tomiam

Do your MC's chirp from when they are kittens?
Both Loki and Storvenn have more of a meow than a chirp and only occassionaly do i hear anything close to it.

Harry has a variety of sounds and has an interesting vocabulary of cheeps, chirps and trills as well as meows. I have noticed this has developed more recently though

Originally Posted by Tomiam

Do your MC's chirp from when they are kittens?
Both Loki and Storvenn have more of a meow than a chirp and only occassionaly do i hear anything close to it.

Never ever heard a meow from her. Always chirrups.

my moggy chirps ALOT more than meows infact especially when i leave the room its very weird as tho she is calling me to come back lol.... i have this running tap in my kitchen which cannot be fixed (yes its rather annoying) and a jug in the sink which i use to cool my babys bottles meeka sits in the sink and watches the jug fill up then drinks from it when her own water gets warm and watches the water, she also walks around the edge of the bath while im in it lol...i dont think its just maine coons that do weird things with water is it?? as im aware she had a semi ferral background so no maine coon in her lol

All four of our MCs chirp and trill, and definitely have different sounds for different purposes. Only the kitten has something like a meow, and only when he is upset about not getting something he wants. He seems like he imitates the other cats (when he first started talking he sounded just like the bigger male), and the meow sound appeared after he spent a week at the vets (he was very sick) and was around non-MCs. When we kept hearing him do this at the vets we were very concerned that this would be his new sound, but he reverted to more typical MC vocalizations right away. The other sound that he makes (which he just did) is a cry or wail. He does this when he cannot find us or just wants us to do something (like get him food). It is just pathetic sounding--like a young child. One of the girls will go to the front door and "shriek" if she wants me to take her out. She also does this very squeeky purr sometimes--combination of purr and high pitched sounds. Actually ran across a research paper on this type of sound, that claimed it was a very needy sound that humans couldn't resist. Ours seems to do it when she is trying to really show affection, however. The MC mix we had developed a particular trill that he would use only when I came outside to do something with him. He would run up to me and do that trill, and those were the only times he ever did that exact sound. He was a brilliant cat!

Originally Posted by deeshell08

my moggy chirps ALOT more than meows infact especially when i leave the room its very weird as tho she is calling me to come back lol.... i have this running tap in my kitchen which cannot be fixed (yes its rather annoying) and a jug in the sink which i use to cool my babys bottles meeka sits in the sink and watches the jug fill up then drinks from it when her own water gets warm and watches the water, she also walks around the edge of the bath while im in it lol...i dont think its just maine coons that do weird things with water is it?? as im aware she had a semi ferral background so no maine coon in her lol

I told Sebastian about your kitchen sink and he insisted that this was not FAIR and he wants a permanent dripping faucet as well - NOW!! Chirp chirp ----- that is what he says as soon as there is a running tap anywhere to be heard.
When he weows it's so funny cause he brings forth this meager high pitched miauw - comming from this big guy is soooo funny and unexpected. He does hiss quite often out of frustration, more than any cat I ever had or had. Other than that he has a few more sounds something like a grrrp. Sadly he is not as vocal anymore as he was when he was younger. Now with the girls around he is much too busy and gotten, as it seems, "serious".

Cuddles