The Secret Language Of Cats
How to understand your cat for a better, happier relationship
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Publisher Description
Do you speak to your cat? Do you feel your cat understands you and vice versa?
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Cat lovers across the globe know cats can speak. In this compelling new book, Susanne Schotz – a professor at Sweden’s Lund University – shares insights into her long-standing cat communication research. Proving that cats not only speak to one another, but also to their human caretakers.
This clever book teaches us how to better understand our cats by translating their sounds, recognising their meaning in different situations and giving practical tips to understand them better.
Unlocking the cat code, this crash course in cat phonetics is the perfect gift for cat-lovers everywhere.
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Those who love cats will also adore this book from phonetics professor Sch tz. She insists that cats possess their own language (of sorts) and that, with self-awareness and patience, owners can discern some of what their pets are "saying." For example, her cat Vimsan, after receiving a bowl of food, responds "brrrt," for "thank you." Her cat Rocky, also during food prep, "lifts himself up with his front paws against my knees, where he drawls a me-aw, which I take to mean, Oh that smells good, I want some too!' " Sh tz shares a serious discussion of her academic specialty, dispelling any notion that the book's premise is sheer fancy. To that end, she provides a chart of the various consonants she's observed cats making approximants, fricatives, and laterals, for example while readily conceding the inherent limits to human comprehension; "cats do not have a language that works like a human language" and "we cannot look something up in Cat." Still, chances are good that this lively title will help cat lovers achieve a surprising and animating level of understanding with their house pet.
