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	dunc 2007-03-03 03:57 am UTC (link)
	Wank? KITTIES! I have two Maine Coon mixes. They don't meow excessively, but one of them does trill constantly. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	dana 2007-03-03 04:01 am UTC (link)
	My Ragdoll trills when he's not sure where I am, unless he's sleeping (and preferably as close to me as possible) he needs to follow me everywhere and gets distressed when I'm out of sight with the low level trilling. He's not too bright sometimes, because usually I'm in the next room. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	dunc 2007-03-03 04:30 am UTC (link)
	The one that doesn't trill gets like that sometimes. He is what my father calls a 'lover', I call a 'whore', and everyone (up to and including random repairmen) agrees is needy. And that's why I have two giant kitties instead of just the one. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	dana 2007-03-03 04:50 am UTC (link)
	Everyone keeps telling me that when he gets older he'll stop being clingy, and while it's true that if I'm in the house I'm his favourite (I'm the one who feeds it ;) he'll happily glomp onto someone else in my absence. Which is why it's a good thing there is always someone in the house. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

chibikaijuu
2007-03-03 06:59 pm UTC (link)

Huh. My Ragdoll mix was extremely clingy (but only to me) when he was a baby, but now he's only randomly cuddly (and still pretty much only to me). Nobody else believes that he purrs. But he trills constantly - really the only time he meows any other way is when he's been trapped somewhere and wants out, or thinks he sees something chaseable.
He's also terrified of stranger. We think he's slightly damaged (he was really, really young when we got him from the shelter, and had obviously been removed from his mother too early. The other kitten was better socialized and manged to teach him how to groom himself and some kitty ettiquette, but only some - he still hasn't quite figured out the burying part of using the litter box - or rather, he uses the box and then goes through the motions of burying with the air outside of the box).

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	annabelle_lee 2007-03-04 04:54 am UTC (link)
	I'm not the only one to deal with that? Yes, there is a god!</i> My...uh, whatever-the-hell-she-is cat does that too, but considering she wasn't a shelter cat and was removed from her mother within a decent amount of time, I blamed it on her just being dumb. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	toph 2007-03-03 05:05 am UTC (link)
	Trilling! My youngest cat does that, but I always called it chirping. I had no idea it was common :o (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	dana 2007-03-03 05:30 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, the three cats I've had in my life did some trilling, but I think my latest does it the most. It's very cute. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	catslash 2007-03-03 07:23 am UTC (link)
	So. Cute. We've had a couple trillers in my family, and we'd all just melt to pieces every time. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ecchaniz0r 2007-03-03 05:36 am UTC (link)
	My cat chirps/trills all the gorram time. "Prrt? Prrt? Prrt? Prrt? Prrt? Prrt? Prrt? Prrt? Prrt? Prrt? Prrt? Prrt? Prrt? Prrt? Prrt?" Oh lordy. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	dana 2007-03-03 05:41 am UTC (link)
	And is your cat starving half the time? I swear, you'd think I never fed my cat the way he carries on every time I go into the kitchen. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ecchaniz0r 2007-03-03 04:29 pm UTC (link)
	Well, she CLAIMS we omgz nevar feeeed her oh the woes and the angst and the Linkin Park. She'll pull the 'i am famished~~~' routine on me five minutes after she finishes her gooshyfood. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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hellespont
2007-03-03 09:27 am UTC (link)

I had a foster cat who didn't so much trill as quack. quite clearly, whenever I came into her room or she thought I might dispense with the Tender Vittles (they were like heroin to her).

My oldest girl (19 in April! Woot!) didn't used to vocalize much at all, but as she's sunk deeper into her dotage, she's begun meowing randomly and squeak-chirping when she's woken up from a nap.

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	wanktastic 2007-03-03 05:46 pm UTC (link)
	My oldest girl (19 in April! Woot!) didn't used to vocalize much at all, but as she's sunk deeper into her dotage, she's begun meowing randomly and squeak-chirping when she's woken up from a nap. That's the best. My mother has an elderly cat and in the last year or so she's starting sounding like a partly senile, partly crotchety little old lady. It's adorable. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	priestesspadfoo 2007-03-06 04:35 pm UTC (link)
	It's time for me to go to bed, because I read "My mother was an elderly cat..." (Reply to this)(Parent)

	b_jellybean 2007-03-03 05:22 pm UTC (link)
	My kitty does that too when he's looking out the window at the birdies or the snowflakes and is SO INCREDIBLY WORKED UP about not being allowed to go out and get them. When he wants to be fed (which is all the time) he just sobs. He's got this one that sounds like "Mama!" It's incredibly cute and irritating. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	dejla 2007-03-07 12:41 am UTC (link)
	Oh, yes. Bandit used to do that. He'd see a bird and he'd get up against the window and chirp. It sounded like he was saying, "Here, birdiebirdiebirdie..." (Reply to this)(Parent)

	crysiana 2007-03-03 08:04 am UTC (link)
	My littlest baby trills all the time. Especially when he's being yelled at for chewing on the phone cord/clawing the walls, chasing the other cats, etc. He gives this woeful little "Prrt?" and these big eyes that make you swear he's innocent, even while he's still ripping the wallpaper from the wall. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	julesnoctambule 2007-03-03 08:48 pm UTC (link)
	Aww, Maine mixes! Top-notch cats. I have one, too. She weighs 19 pounds, gives kisses, sleeps on my pillow at night and will fetch her mouse when she wants to. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	julesnoctambule 2007-03-03 08:50 pm UTC (link)
	And the relevant part -- she chirps all the time. It's funny to hear such a tiny noise coming from such a big girl! She snores sometimes, too, which I find hilarious for some reason. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

garnetmist
2007-03-04 06:15 am UTC (link)

I maine coon mix is the same way. Snores constantly and always has. Glad to know that other maine coon mixes are so big. My vet bitched me out for letting him get so big. Um, there was no "let" in this. The cat is just genetically BIG. My family calls him buffalo cat because he isn't so much as a cat as a small buffalo. To me, size isn't a problem, until he decides to sleep on your legs.

Not sure how to describe the sounds he makes. He doesn't meow or yowl often. He makes more of a brrrrrrrrt sound.

He also acts like I never feed him. What really aggravates me is his primadonna behavior about water. IT MUST BE FROM THE FAUCET. Water bowls are for lesser cats. I've been having a battle of wills trying to break this habit. I see that he is drinking from the bowl I put in the tub but he still gets in my face and makes this odd sound like he's parched and I better get off my ass and get him some water pronto.

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	yaoiko 2007-03-11 09:57 pm UTC (link)
	OUR CAT USED TO DO THE SAME THING. Only it was the faucet or from one of our FANCY HUMAN GLASSES. Which she would then knock over when done. I miss her. (Reply to this)(Parent)

papervolcano
2007-03-03 09:24 pm UTC (link)

I used to have two cats, but one of them died late last year. Since then, the other cat will not shut up. Previously, she was quiet and ninja-like (up to and including the whole leaping onto my head thing), now she barely stops mewing, meowing and trilling. She's always *starving* to *death*, there's this dog that's like, looking at her, *constantly*, and nobody *ever* gives her enough attention, it's just *tragic*, she doesn't know how she *copes*, especially when she wants to be outside, no you stupid monkey, inside, no outside, why aren't you looking at me, I'm here, I want attention, no not that kind of attention look at me feed me stroke me, don't....

I adore her, from the points of her ears to the tip of her kinked tail, but it gets rather tiresome, after a while.

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	also_not_a_pipe 2007-03-04 02:56 am UTC (link)
	I used to have a Maine Coon mix, but all he ever did was make this breathy "eck" noise and chirp now and again. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	v_digitalwytch 2007-03-05 02:31 am UTC (link)
	My Fulci's the same way with the trill. Didn't know that was also a sign of Maine Coonishness. I just thought it cute that this 20lb cat has this itty bitty trill. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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