My cats all purr, and Mouse has the loudest purr in the universe. Both she and Emily, her cousin, can yell their heads off. Molly, the youngest, is a chatty cat; she converses continually in a series of chirps and yaps, but she too has a voice like a foghorn when she wants to use it.
I once had a ginger tom, Arthur, who had a respectable purr but no voice to speak of. He was a huge burly chap with a slight frown between his eyes, but when he opened his mouth only this feeble chirrup would emerge, like a heavyweight wrestler with laryngitis.
I once had to take him to the vet, in one of those collapsible cardboard pet carriers (you know the sort, you're speeding along the M1 and out of the corner of your eye you see the cat's head and shoulders emerging from the box on the back seat. Those.)
Well, so there I was in the vet's, sitting there with this cardboard box on my lap, heaving away, and chirruping, and this woman said, 'have you got a budgie in there, love?'
Anyone else got a cat who is vocally eccentric?
and it’s one of those painful moans it goes right through you! Funnily enough when she has to go to the vets she’s a quiet as a mouse!
oddly though he had a silent meow indoors when he passed us he would look up and open his mouth - as if to say hello but nothing came out, very cute he was.
Some may remember it; it's the one where he buys a replacement for his girlfriend's dead budgie and gets conned into buying a turkey instead. Eventually he twigs something's not right (by now the turkey's wearing the budgie cage like a wire waistcoat) and returns it to the pet shop, but on the way there drops into the pub.
