little meow? BIG MEOW?

luvmy2cats

TCS Member
Thread starter
Top Cat
Joined
Jul 22, 2007
Messages
4,616
Purraise
11
Location
Goshen, IN
Do your cats have a little meow or a big meow. Popsie has a big meow. Especially if he wants something. It also has a raspy quality to it. His meow can be very annoying if I'm trying to sleep.
 

jarvis

TCS Member
Alpha Cat
Joined
Aug 18, 2007
Messages
435
Purraise
1
Location
Fla
Ike usually has a small meow...but she's a small kitty. That is, unless she is on a car ride...she hates that! And she'll let me know with a VERY loud "Meeooooaaaah"
 

spudsmom

TCS Member
Top Cat
Joined
Jul 29, 2006
Messages
1,477
Purraise
12
Location
Pacific NW
Spud, my ol' tuxedo boy is very loud. He talks a lot, we have long conversations!
Siam is a Siamese mix and he has tiny chirps and squeaks, you have to listen hard to hear him! You would think it would be the other way around. I used to have a tortie point Siamese, Brandy, and oh my, she was a screamer!
 

ddcats

TCS Member
Super Cat
Joined
Apr 2, 2007
Messages
848
Purraise
2
Location
Where whiskers abound.
Mittens has a whiney meow, that's why I call her a 'baby'. She'll whine for her food, whine when I pet her, whine when I look at her the 'wrong' way. She has a pink dress that I keep in her cubbyhole, size 3mos.


Cassy hardly meow's, she will give a couple of short, sweet meow's before I give her food. Other than that, she NEVER meow's. I purposely make her meow because I think she needs to work on it. She also needs to work on her 'purr' - I heard her purr ONCE.
 

MoochNNoodles

TCS Member
Veteran
Joined
Apr 30, 2005
Messages
36,689
Purraise
23,606
Location
Where my cats are
Both my girls have little meows. Noodles makes a lot of silent meows or just barely squeeks. Unless it's the middle of the night and she wants attention or something. Then she gets really loud!
 

rapunzel47

TCS Member
Veteran
Joined
Jul 20, 2003
Messages
30,725
Purraise
8
Location
Lotus Land
Cindy mostly chirps and chatters at a moderate volume, though she does meow a question from time to time. However if I'm not paying attention or not getting the point, she turns it up to MEOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOOW!

Fawn has a tiny little breathy 'ih most of the time -- except when the neighbour cat known as Mr Black comes calling, then she manages a squall of a quite remarkable volume.

Suzy has a kitten mew, except when she wants to be on the other side of a door and it's not happening quickly enough for her liking. She too can turn it up an impressive and imperative amount.
 

tarasgirl06

TCS Member
Top Cat
Joined
Sep 19, 2006
Messages
24,839
Purraise
65,125
Location
Glendale, CATifornia
Oh how can you SAY that!

Well, let's see: Nicolas T. Cat has an insistent, loud, rather haranguing, high-pitched miaow; Calo, a raspy panther-y voice; Samuda's loud, Siamesey-y yowls can probably be heard on Pluto! For the girls' side: Rani doesn't miaow, she "ik"'s! and it's rather a soft "ik" unless there's something she really wants, in which case she breaks into a loud yowl. Sishya snowshoe gives soft, dry mews until she sees or hears my ex. Then, all bets are off, and her insistent, in-heat-like yowls would shame the pop singers (all of whom sound exactly alike to me, so that's why I'm not picking one name). Sahra has soft mews in keeping with her tiny size. Tarifa's bell-like voice is music to my ears! and can be loud, but is usually soft and melodious. Maryam generally sounds as if she's affronted by something, and her voice isn't loud. Baby Suha also has soft, dry mews, but they're more like a small wild cat's than a domestic cat's.

Is that more than you wanted to know? Well, there it is!
 

lnbandcats

TCS Member
Top Cat
Joined
Nov 20, 2006
Messages
2,871
Purraise
1
Location
Watching the robins sing!
Sophie has a little "peep" that is why I call her Sophie Peeps! Mollie is also very quiet. Cosmo, however, howls quite loudly - "I'm hungry", "where is everyone?", "wake up!" and "isn't great to be a spoiled ragdoll baby!"
 

samantha1979

TCS Member
Super Cat
Joined
Apr 4, 2007
Messages
884
Purraise
1
Location
counting down until graduation!!
Tiki has a small one. She hardly ever meows. Sometimes when I am giving them soft food, I will tease her until she meows. It is very cute. Lately at night though, she comes into the bedroom and meows quite loud. She gets Reggae's attention, he chases her out of the room, and then he lays back on me.

Reggae is a talker. I know he is just saying "moma". I can hear it. We have conversations in the kitchen. He has a pretty normal sounding meow.

Is there such thing as normal? Everyones seem to be different!
 

beccory

TCS Member
Alpha Cat
Joined
Jul 24, 2006
Messages
311
Purraise
1
Location
St Paul, MN
Simon and Lyra are both big talkers, and both can be REALLY LOUD if they wanna be. I'm convinced Simon has some Siamese in him, because he just jabbers all the time. When he really wants food, it's this loud YOW-OWWW. Other times, it's any assortment of other noises. His meow is medium-to-high-pitched.
Lyra, however, sounds like a laser-gun when she's upset... beeooo! beeeooooo! she has the highest pitched mews I've EVER heard! I call her squeakers sometimes because if she just wants attention or something she squeaks. So cute, hehe!
 

lore

TCS Member
Top Cat
Joined
Jun 4, 2007
Messages
1,318
Purraise
2
Location
Chicagoland
Horatio (orange & white short hair) - Quiet typical " *Mew* " & " *Meow* "
Yuki (siamese mix) - Loud " *rowwwwarrrrl* "
Max (tabby) - Quiet " *meh-meh* "

 

tierre0

TCS Member
Top Cat
Joined
Mar 17, 2007
Messages
7,256
Purraise
1
Location
on the shores of Georgian Bay
Both of my cats have several different meows they use depending on what they want..

Sassy has this tiny little meow he uses when he wants my attention, and a really loud long meow which he uses when he is tearing around the house playing.

Linus is not to loud except when he is playing with Sassy then it's a contest to see who can make the most noise.
He also has a little chirpy sound he makes at night when he is wondering around the house after everyone else is in bed.
 

worriedmommy

TCS Member
Top Cat
Joined
Aug 10, 2007
Messages
2,347
Purraise
1
Location
Knee deep in cat litter
Tosh has a loud, demanding meow
Oreo has a loud, demanding meow
Snickers has a cute kitten like meow that just melts my heart
Can you tell she has me wrapped around her little claw? Well...ok...they ALL do

Oh and we are the proud owners of <trumpet sound> Jazz. We just got him from the SPCA yesterday. We are keeping him separate from the others still. And his meow is a very little meow but boy does he use it a lot
 

arie85

TCS Member
Super Cat
Joined
Feb 22, 2007
Messages
740
Purraise
10
Location
Hillside, NJ (currently Dallas, TX)
Originally Posted by luvmycat1

Do your cats have a little meow or a big meow. Popsie has a big meow. Especially if he wants something. It also has a raspy quality to it. His meow can be very annoying if I'm trying to sleep.
My biggie is little meowing haha
 

dixie_darlin

TCS Member
Top Cat
Joined
Jul 25, 2005
Messages
8,031
Purraise
4
Location
Pinellas Park, Florida
Tiger sounds like a mountain lion in heat!
He doesn't meow, he BELLOWS!
Tonka, has a teeny meow which is funny because he's a HUGE cat.
The cat brats are kinda inbetween a meow and a purr
 

dragoriana

MajesticFloof
Top Cat
Joined
Aug 20, 2006
Messages
4,092
Purraise
543
Chuckie has a loud constant meow if he wants to go out. Otherwise he is a quiet boy and when i visit him in his enclosure he gives me friendly quiet meows, and when its time for cuddles or food he talks to me and goes bbbbrrrrrrrrr
 

jellybella

TCS Member
Top Cat
Joined
Feb 10, 2007
Messages
2,314
Purraise
3
Location
UPNY
Stanley has a squeak, I'm not sure I've ever heard a proper "meow" from him. Squeaks can mean he's happy, sad or in a panic.

Bella has a whole vocab of trills, chirps and meows. She also has a specific whiney meow she uses when she knows the ear medicine is coming...

Overall they are both very quiet. We once had a siamese houseguest that was very loud, particularly once the lights went out.
 

alleygirl

TCS Member
Top Cat
Joined
Dec 2, 2006
Messages
11,814
Purraise
24
Location
hiding in the bathtub
Riley has a tiny little baby meow and trills most of the time. If he gets shut out of a room, or if he's looking for his mousie he sounds like a tomcat yowling, lol.
 
Top