I didn't save it but if you still have the original email someplace, I found the entire article (very short) by surfing around the website that linked to the vocalizations in the link provided in that email. Did that make sense? It's too early in the morning.
Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-4006 tay...@sandiego.edu ---- Original message ---- >Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:54:54 -0600 >From: "Shearon, Tim" <tshea...@collegeofidaho.edu> >Subject: RE: [tips] annoying cat solicitation purr >To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <tips@acsun.frostburg.edu> > > >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?) a! ! nd 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) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
