Marc- That's closer to what we have in our house as well. We have a wonderful Bengal cat- sweet as she can be. But if she's out of food she doesn't engage in any subtle solicitations. It is overt and dramatic- since I can't type feline, it is pretty close to, "FEED ME!!!!" followed by, "FEED ME NOW, YA CREEPS!!!!" Bengals are notorious vocalizers. They are among the most expressive and loudest cats I've ever experienced- including a litany of sounds I have never heard from a cat or other species, for that matter. When we "picked her out", as if that really happened, the breeder was very adamant that if her vocalizations bother you please return her and I'll take her back. Apparently that is a frequent result. I will not, so long as I live, ever forget the first time she truly "sang" for us. She was standing behind my chair with me sitting reading for neuropsychology class. The sound is indescribable - I literally jumped out of the chair (ever tried jumping from a recliner?) and I have seldom ever felt such fear!
She will sometimes engage in the behavior described here as solicitation but it is to get into your lap to get petted and go to sleep- not over food. It will be interesting to get a copy of the research and see how frequent etc this is. Maybe there is a publication for us in our non-solicitor cats! :) Tim _______________________________ Timothy O. Shearon, PhD Professor and Chair Department of Psychology The College of Idaho Caldwell, ID 83605 email: tshea...@collegeofidaho.edu teaching: intro to neuropsychology; psychopharmacology; general; history and systems "You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." Dorothy Parker ________________________________________ From: David Hogberg [dhogb...@albion.edu] Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 6:06 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] annoying cat solicitation purr It's my belief, based on observations over the years, that all cats are feral most of the time. DKH On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Marc Carter <marc.car...@bakeru.edu<mailto:marc.car...@bakeru.edu>> wrote: My place: overt yowling at 4 am to get up to feed him, and more at around 10 pm when he thinks it's time I should be in bed (even though he doesn't sleep in the bed with me -- he just wants ME to go to bed). And yeppers about the pitch -- it cannot be ignored... Cats are only partly "domesticated." m -- Marc Carter, PhD Associate Professor and Chair Department of Psychology College of Arts & Sciences Baker University -- --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
