If you've ever tried to call a cat somewhere in a foreign country, I'm sure you've noticed that they don't always react. Why? Because apparently international cats react to different sounds.
In England, they say "chh-chh-chh". In Israel, they say "ps-ps-ps". As for India, they say "meow-meow". Each country gets a cat's attention with different noises, and these were just a couple examples! Keep on scrolling for a list of how to call cats in a bunch of different countries, compiled by Bored Panda.
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In my region we also use ci ci/tsi tsi instead of the above. But only to unknown cats. My cat usually reacts to "are you hungry?'"
And endlessly amusing to me always because one term for breasts is pronounced "Tsitsi" so it's as though you're calling out for your runaway pair of boobs.
As an American... this is true, I hear this all the time...usually by people who have no business near a cat.
You should hear my mom call kittykittykitty. It comes out as a trill. Every cat in the neighborhood thinks she's a bird
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I call mine with the "ts ts ts" sound. Wasn't really sure how to type that but I think most people will know what I mean.
Ya, generally I click my tongue/snap my fingers, make the smooching sound, or say "ki-ki-ki." All appear to be equally effective ;p
I have done this, but normally just click my tongue on the roof of my mouth. Almost like a tsk-tsk-tsk sound but shorter.
USA, west coast. I have never heard anyone say the "here," when serious about calling a cat, just "kitty kitty kitty," repeated about a dozen times. The call sounds very rapid and high pitched.
Growing up I the US (on the east coast) I call cats by saying "pswiss - swiss - swiss".
My cat has a mind of his own and most the time acts like he is deaf when I call him yet, is just simply ignoring me.
this is only by people who aren't familiar with cats or aren't around them much. I've only ever heard pspspsps coming from New York, Florida, and Arizona, never heard of anything different
only people who don't have cats or are never near cats do this, its usually pspspsps similar to Australia
Yes and they ignore you anyway unless they hear the prospect of food and they are hungry.
We are in Canada, and we have 12 kitties, all rescue. I've never actually used a word perse, but when I call them it would sound like psssssspssssss, or the noise you use when you purse your lips and kinda chirp. They all know it, and always come to it.
lol I didn't know this and I've lived here for 16 yrs I just meow to cats
I always learned to call ssp-ssp-ssp-ssp. With my cats I just shake the treat container though
Everyone I know makes a sort of t-t-t sound with their tongue behind their top front teeth when calling their cat.
I personally use a mix of whatever each cat likes. One of my cats comes when you whistle "My Bonnie". Stranger cats get the teeth sucking sound or kisses or both with a kee kee kee thrown in just in case they don't know I'm calling a cat ???? ????
I literally use variations of every other countries' calls, and never this haha mostly kissy noises.
Grew up with cats and have three of my own and I do say this. Though I say the kitty kitty part so fast you really don't hear it as kitty kitty. Unless it's my own cat and then I say their name. If it's a random cat I'm trying to get close I'll say this.
I usually call mine by clicking my tongue. Of course I can also just call them by their name. They get it right about 7/10 times
I always called a cat "kss-kss-kss" and I am from Latvia. "Minka-minka" is an old school nowadays used by old people or in a country side.
Face off! I don't know which side to look at. They are both perfectly beautiful! Would you have two names for this kitty?
This looks like the cat from this commercial, especially at the end https://youtu.be/Qe88s3tpH0A
In Serbia we call them by saying Mac-mac-mac (said with a c that sounds like a German tz for example)
I was telling that to my husband! Im now in USA and any cat pay me attention when a said michi- michi -michi like in Ar gentine
notice that all of them (almost) come in three short words. Apparently cats universally respond to repeating, short sounds.
I called "Pss-pss-pss' out my back door last night, like I usually do, and got both of my cats and a third one trotting up to the door... ;-)
You should add Indonesia.. We called it.. Umm.. I don't know how other people called their cat
I just do the thing where you put the tip of your tongue to the roof of your mouth and suck back making the tsk tsk sound. I do that for everything though. I call people over like that too..
Also as I was imitating the sounds from the world my cats kept looking at me hahaha
This would be a fun re-post to guess the cats citizenship. The French cat was hilarious!
It’s Pish-pish-pish in Iran as well. Turkish cats in Istanbul respond to pish-pish-pish too. But North American cats don’t even turn their heads no matter how hard you try and say it.
Photo at 12 is taken in Turkey not in Russia. And that cats name isTombik
I am Hungarian. When I was a child I used to think they will react to these but now I realised that my cats only respond when they see food.
All the kitties are just too gorgeous! Wish I could have all of them... :)
Where's Switzerland (the country where cheese grows on the mountains :P )??? In the Swiss German part, we call them "Büsi-Büsi-Büsi".
i knew this was why cats ignored me when i'm in other countries!
In Filipino Cebuano we say "Ming ming ming." I don't know what the other dialects say but I'm sure there are differences.
In Filipino Cebuano we say "Ming ming ming." I don't know what the other dialects say though.
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Load More Replies...In Serbia we call them by saying Mac-mac-mac (said with a c that sounds like a German tz for example)
I was telling that to my husband! Im now in USA and any cat pay me attention when a said michi- michi -michi like in Ar gentine
notice that all of them (almost) come in three short words. Apparently cats universally respond to repeating, short sounds.
I called "Pss-pss-pss' out my back door last night, like I usually do, and got both of my cats and a third one trotting up to the door... ;-)
You should add Indonesia.. We called it.. Umm.. I don't know how other people called their cat
I just do the thing where you put the tip of your tongue to the roof of your mouth and suck back making the tsk tsk sound. I do that for everything though. I call people over like that too..
Also as I was imitating the sounds from the world my cats kept looking at me hahaha
This would be a fun re-post to guess the cats citizenship. The French cat was hilarious!
It’s Pish-pish-pish in Iran as well. Turkish cats in Istanbul respond to pish-pish-pish too. But North American cats don’t even turn their heads no matter how hard you try and say it.
Photo at 12 is taken in Turkey not in Russia. And that cats name isTombik
I am Hungarian. When I was a child I used to think they will react to these but now I realised that my cats only respond when they see food.
All the kitties are just too gorgeous! Wish I could have all of them... :)
Where's Switzerland (the country where cheese grows on the mountains :P )??? In the Swiss German part, we call them "Büsi-Büsi-Büsi".
i knew this was why cats ignored me when i'm in other countries!
In Filipino Cebuano we say "Ming ming ming." I don't know what the other dialects say but I'm sure there are differences.
In Filipino Cebuano we say "Ming ming ming." I don't know what the other dialects say though.
sorry.....three comments michi-mich...ed9fdf.jpg
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