So here’s the thing with cats, the meow is a very small part of their ability
to communicate. It’s the most obvious but it’s one that my impression is they
use only for very course direct but not very detailed communication although
many cats have hundreds of different utterances.
The other thing that’s interesting is your garden variety house cat
will meow and do tail shapes and mimic behavior for attention but wild cats or
less domesticated breads have a much more complex communication and bond,
especially with their people / owner. Dogs minds are subordinate to ours. You
hear their owners frequently referred to as masters and dogs just love pleasing
their person, something I don’t need to state much on here with the many guide
dog users on the list. Cats though, again wild non domesticated cats have a
very deep connection if they choose to bond with a person. I’m not a big
believer in the super natural or psychic BS but the best way I can explain a
bonding with a higher level cat is almost a telepathic exchange. My Lynx who I
raised from a kitten was with me for 15 years and you would almost hear her
talk but it wasn’t audible and it wasn’t a meow it was a feeling, somewhere
between hearing a voice and having the impression you heard a voice. Not just
simple things like water or hungry but things like “I’d like to go outside
because there’s a bird I want” or “it will be ok” or things like that. Also
she could (if she wanted to) follow complex directions. I used to let her out
to patrol the perimeter when we lived out in the woods and would hear something
outside. the most difficult emotional experience in my adult life by far was
when she passed away and I felt that bond break. I have to this day not been
able to get another pet or animal because the loss was so hard for me to deal
with the last time. I kept hearing her meow for over a week after she passed
and again I’m an atheist but it makes one wonder a little.
Many people report similar experiences who interact with wild animals.
Bird handlers have similar experiences and long wrong out relationships with
their companion animals as some birds live longer than humans. There are
peoples who live in Siberia who hunt with eagles and bond with them the same
way from babies but they part ways when the eagle reaches 7 - 10 years old and
full adult hood. The hunters say that the bird will tell them when they wish
to move on and be free and they let them go and train another.
So why mention any of this? I think it will be a long long time before
there are interspecies translators that do anything useful. Communication is
so much more than vocalizations. Cats for example express more with their
tails than they do their larynx. Communication is very complicated. Some
animals have even far greater complexity in communication than we do, some
forms of whales are exponentially more complex in their language than ours. So
that’s a long way of saying, no, the universal translator for pets is probably
not available on iTunes. At least not yet.> On May 1, 2016, at 8:28 PM, Devin Prater <[email protected]> wrote: > > Does the human to cat translator app actually work, or does it just generate > random meowing and stuff? > Sent from my Mac. > > Devin Prater > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > >> On May 1, 2016, at 4:43 PM, Jean <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hi Jesica: >> My Noise was featured on Apple Vis a while ago. It is a sound generator for >> things like white noise, rain or other sustained sounds. >> >> Human to cat translator is a fun app that you can record something you want >> to tell your cat and it translates into, well, cat speak. >> Jean >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the Mac >> Visionaries list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or >> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara >> Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> >> The archives for this list can be searched at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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