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[-] victorz@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago

Here's a version with less weird whitespace.

[-] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 months ago

Here's a version with even less weird whitespace.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Some negative space is good, but not zero, and not too much. 😆

[-] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 34 points 2 months ago

My cat is a bastard, a grouchy, always hungry curmudgeon. He does not sing, he yells at you with a voice like Lemmy Killmeister smoking and gargling Jack Daniels.

[-] Sergio@piefed.social 14 points 2 months ago

I totally would hang with your cat! I might even record him and put him over an industrial beat.

[-] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 12 points 2 months ago

I have considered doing exactly that several times. The thing is, he won't make a peep when I start recording.

[-] Sergio@piefed.social 6 points 2 months ago

Hmm... maybe you need to negotiate a deal first. Tell them you'll give them a treat in exchange for a recording, then let them think about it for a while.

[-] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 4 points 2 months ago

He's more likely to smash a cheeseburger into my mixing console for trying to make him do work.

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

ABCR, always be cat recording

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 6 points 2 months ago

Slam poetry style.

Meow,

My life is fart.

Meow,

And if you're smart.

Meow,

You'll fucking feed me!

[-] Fanfare2217@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago
[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago

¡Egualmente!

[-] Godric@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

Aw a cute little very loud unending song at 3:30 in the morning when I have work the next day, how kind!

[-] paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Meeerrroowwww!

[-] Apeman42@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

One of my cats has a high voice and has learned to do perfect attention-seeking sad meows when she wants attention and is too lazy to find me, and sings a loud frantic song to motivate me as I prepare food.

The other one purrs with the depth and volume of a large diesel engine, but mostly only lets out her low raspy meow to complain, which could be anything from "open the window" to "why did you stop petting me for .5 seconds?"

If I were casting voices for them in some type of Homeward Bound-type movie, they'd be Mila Kunis and Jennifer Tilly respectively.

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

the bowl is empty!

The Bowl Is Empty!

THE BOWL IS EMPTY!

THE BOWL IS EMPTY!

the bowl:

1000002502

me: shut the fuck

uppppppp

[-] Sergio@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago

Oh yeah but it's ok when humans install a fascist government just bc they can't stock their fridge completely full. (/jk) (kinda....)

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago

I am so very confused.

[-] dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 months ago

I have a variety of cat chattiness.

Buttons (16 year old Tonkinese) is VERY chatty and very loud at times. The latter mostly due to being deaf or nearly so, but she's always been quite talkative.

Serenity (13 year old Calico) only makes noise when hungry or interacting with other cats. And none of those are pleasant.

Mizu (a bit over a year, hard to pin down stray) is VERY quiet unless it's food or play time. Even then, her trills are still rather subdued.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

That's a Tonk. Siamese and Tonkinese are just motor mouths.

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

I have some kind of mutt brothers that are part Siamese. One of them looks straight up like it with blue eyes. He's confirmed mentally "special" by the vet. He's great, but his meow is broken. It sounds guttural and he rarely uses it. May be related to his mouth issues.

[-] dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

They are! And I really enjoy it 99.9% of the time.

[-] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

I've heard Tonkinese are pretty chatty in general, isn't that so?

[-] dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

Her brother (died in July) was also very talkative. And shaped like a pug.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery 10 points 2 months ago

Yes!

I get that all things have some limits, but in this case of a chatty cat it would just have to be so unimaginably bad that such a rarity would basically not happen.

I also unwillingly lose respect for ppl that want their cats to be quiet.
It's like they want a piece of furniture, an ornament, not a living being - actually worse, a living being to not really be itself.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

our cats are an orange dipshit and a calico dumpster baby. we lost our previous calico to total body failure. it took us a year to be ready for another cat, and that year was way too quiet. whenever i hear ours chirp at us or mew at each other it's a delight.

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[-] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

I love conversing with my boy. He always has interesting things to say. More so than most people.

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 9 points 2 months ago

One of mine let's out the cutest little meow every time I reach out to pet her. I live for that little mow!

[-] Bazell@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago

Not at 3 a.m.

[-] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

My one cat is soooo loud. Her face thing is to come up to me while I'm on work calls and meow right into the microphone.

[-] waggz@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago

i have one that if he is moving within sight of me he is meowing, it's so cute as his little bounces affect the meows. the other one is super stealthy, until he has to poop, and then lets the while neighborhood know with a few minutes of outright yowls first. and yes, he's fine, he's just done it for 14 years

[-] Aeri@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I love chatty cats.

What I don't love is how mine will harass me excessively as I'm preparing for work. He'll just scream at me to let him out, like, fuck you man I still have like 10 minutes of showering and making coffee and shit you can go outside when I leave. This is how it is every day.

Yes, I know you shouldn't let your cat outside, but he's at least 10 years old, he's set in his ways, he will unleash hell if impounded.

[-] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

My cat only meows when she's upset or annoyed or angry. Her trills are so cute when she does, though. What I'd do for a chatty cat!

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

All she has to say is "feed me."

I don't feed you. The automatic feeder will feed at the same time it feeds you every day.

[-] Avicenna@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

chatty cats are the absolute best

[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

They are subcatagory of "people who hate cats." Of course they suck.

[-] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

There are people who dislike that??

I always think it’s wonderful when you and an animal can communicate. It might not always be as effective, but it’s an important part of connecting with someone. Human or animal.

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