[cookiengineer]

We trained our cat from a very young age, and used it as a routine for getting treats or food.

The cat is able to do the following:

- sit

- spin (rotate in a circle)

- "up up" to stand on their feet, tapping my finger with the paws

- "high five" and "low five"

- "platz" to lay down on all fours

- "come on" to follow around

- "nom nom" to signal whether or not it wants food. You can see the eyes getting big immediately when it's very hungry.

- whistling to come to a specific spot

- double tap on a surface to signal to come to a specific spot

There's a theory that cats that don't scream but make the "urrr"ing sounds don't treat their owners like a kitten but as a mutually respected individual. And most people think that cats try to make the "urrr" sounds to communicate with humans.

These sounds vary in pitch and repetition and length and it's very easy to identify what our cat wants from us:

- when it doesn't like something

- when it wants to play hide and seek

- when it wants to go outside

- when it wants us to help it get to a specific spot (e.g. opening the door or making a fort on the bed so it can hide under the sheets).

- when it wants to cuddle

- when it wants to be hold in the arms so it can see what we're doing (on the kitchen counter, where it isn't allowed to jump on)

- and, of course, when it is hungry, that's the high pitch scream most cats do.

What I also wanted to add is that our cat has different moods of cooperating with the tricks it has to do when getting food. When it's only slightly hungry it tries to get away with cuddling us or "pushing" the head to the hand while purring...whereas when it's really really hungry it immediately does the tricks to get it over with.

I guess that cats are intelligent enough for tricks but they are also easily bored, that's why you have to change tricks to keep their brains busy and healthy.

[selfmodruntime]

This seems to be true. My one cat has different „urrr‘s“ and screams for wanting food, attention, begging someone to open a door and especially when he has to relieve himself but his toilet is not in an acceptable state.

[elliottcarlson]

My cat definitely has different sounds for different behaviors -- the most interesting one is when I leave the house and he didn't see me leave, I will get a notification from my nest cam that it thought it heard someone speaking, which will be my cat making a guttural sound that sounds eerily like "hello?" - he will sometimes do this if he can't find me in the house.

A second distinct meow he makes is when he is able to sneak past the baby gate to run down the stairs to the front door -- I call this his "see ya, sucker" meow.

[cookiengineer]

Oh, I forgot to add that I think that cats only hear different pitches and aren't able to differentiate consonants from vocal sounds and/or their meaning.

A couple times I did the morning food routine while brushing my teeth (when I was in a hurry) and I was only humming the words while my cat was perfectly able to understand what I want from it.