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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 11:47 AM
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Poll question: Any other cat parents here who "purr" to their kitties?
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 11:48 AM
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1. I would if I could.
I can't purr. :(
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 11:50 AM
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2. It's all in how you hold your tongue.. Have to keep the very tip
Edited on Tue Jan-18-05 11:51 AM by GreenPartyVoter
close to the front of the roof of your mouth, but still loose enough that the airflow moves it up and down.

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Cush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 11:51 AM
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3. I can do it, but my brother can't
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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 11:52 AM
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4. Yes. I can also do that gluttural "brrrrrrt" noise kitties make.
Usually chills them out. :)
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 11:54 AM
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7. Yeah, my cats and I do it to each other. a little "Prrow" and you throw
your head up a bit as if to say, "What's up?"

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Squeech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 12:35 PM
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11. Me too
My accent is apparently getting real sloppy, however, since it only seems to work on my own cat (whose name I took for my DU nickname).
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Cush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 11:52 AM
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5. me
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demnan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 11:54 AM
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6. Yes
I speak all forms of cat!
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 11:54 AM
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8. How's yer Siamese? I can do it, but it gives me a headache. *l*
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nickinSTL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 12:04 PM
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9. oh, heck..
yowls are easy enough to mimic...it's everyone around me that gets a headache when I do it, though :evilgrin:
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demnan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 12:15 PM
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10. Oh yes, my Siamese is very good!
I get a lot of practice with Pad Thai. Sometimes he only listens when I yowel at him.
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ekhunter Donating Member (118 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 12:35 PM
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12. no, i have never tried it.
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