EXPLAINING THE ANGRY MEOWS AND HISSES CATS MAKE

For cat owners, it is usually a tricky thing to pin point exactly what your cat is feeling or saying with the different meows. Especially when the more angrier meows comes out. However, cat owners may finally get the answers they where looking for. 

Jackson Galaxy, renowned cat expert, explained the various angry sounds that domestic cats make. He also explained the reason behind each of these expressions. “The cat verbal vocabulary is *vast*! Herein lies the part of that vastness that pertains to all things angry.”

Galaxy explained how our feline friends are defensive rather than offensive animals and elaborates on how many angry cat sounds actually overlap with fear. “Of course, in cat, it’s never that clearcut – fear intersects with anger and other emotions quite often…”

The sounds he describes are the hiss (the first line of defense), growl (cautionary warning), spit (leave me alone), howl (fearful, last “words”), snarl (impending threat response), scream (sound of fighting), and caterwaul (mating call). “All of these vocalisations can overlap, can come in different orders, can come out of context completely. Based on a cat’s early life experience and their experience with cats along the way, that dialect changes. …Pay attention to these things because again it’s not just angry; it’s angry, it’s scared, it’s surprised, it’s confused. There’s a lot of things rolled into this ball that we call angry cat sounds.”