Understand Your Cat

Cats have their own language. Below we explain what your cat wants to tell you at each moment.

Facial expression

Cats have many muscles in the face, which allows them to be very expressive.

In the infographic below, the meaning of the different expressions is explained.

Sounds

Some cat breeds are more chatty and others are less. What is clear is that as we speak more possibilities to establish a communicative system with the cat.

Meows

Post-copulation: After copulation the cats meow louder, it looks like a baby's cry.

Hunger / Attention: short and rapid meows.

Sadness: If it whimpers more than normal and also has symptoms like more appetite, it shows more distant or less affective ... It can be sad. If you lack affection, you can give it to him, you can also give him toys or leave him in a room with a window. If it is because you are sick, take it to your veterinarian.

Snoring (prrrr ...)

They are related to pleasure and only by recognizing their human, without touching them, can they purr.

Pleasure: When you are very comfortable.

Anxiety due to illness: Sometimes, when the cat feels sick, he purrs.

When he was a puppy he purred to call his mother.

Yawn:

The cat is calm.

Grunting and blowing:

Cats growl and snort to generate fear for their opponents.

Headshots

They show and seek affection

Sniff and rub

Cats have the organ of Jackobson (located on the palate, behind the teeth and is connected to the nasal cavity) that allows them to understand their environment through odors. To mark their territory they tend to rub themselves with everything they want to belong to them or to indicate other cats that have passed by. Urinating also helps them to mark territory.

I attach a very interesting infographic of Sainsbury and translated into Spanish by Gosbi so that you have a visual guide of what your cat wants to tell you.