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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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Liviana Cristinela 9 years ago
Pisicuta, pis, pis ,pis te-am vazut aseara in vis... It means "Kitten,pis pis pis, I've seen you last night in my dream". This is a traditional song
Liviana Cristinela 9 years ago
Sa nu fim rai @Ples Alin, se mai intampla sa si gresim :) nici eu nu stiu foarte bine engleza
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Fritz Dacquigan 9 years ago
It's quite the same here in the Philippines. We sound it here as "pss pss pss". I dunno if that's how Romanians say it though. :)
Alexandru Nan Ernest 9 years ago
We also call them "pisu" or how I'm used to call them "tzi-tzu".
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Marla Cundiff 9 years ago
American here. Guess my parents adopted me from Romania, too! :)
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Eugenija Kričenaitė - Rimavičienė 9 years ago
We also caling like kac kac kac or kss kss kss, and saying that really fast :)
MadameButterfly 9 years ago
Yes,that dousnt sound good in Arab countries.
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Angel Toribio 4 years ago
Every time I say Kiss kiss kiss to my cat, he either moves closer to me or nudges heads with me, so I think that’s a sign
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Christine Ladyman 9 years ago
I didn't put those question marks, lol,,,**
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Lucyna Herman 9 years ago
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?'"
Ana Laura Becker 9 years ago
Hahaha mine reacts to the sound of packages opening!
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Annette Lanham 9 years ago
I'm glad they posted this - I heard a Polish neighbour do this a few times and I had assumed she was making a noise like rattling a box of biscuits. I like the thought of kitties understanding different languages!
Cherie 9 years ago
Me too! But rattling the box of treats (or a can being opened) always works better.
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Marysia Wnęk 9 years ago
Oh my! If you say it, it will sound like noise we make to call a cat, but spelling is so funny! We spell it kici-kici (from word kicia, which is another name for cat)
Fanny Petermann 9 years ago
Yes, my grand-mother use this to call the cats ! And of course kotek / kotka
Patti Wagner 3 years ago
I would hate to meet this cat in a dark alley at night! He looks as if he could put a serious hurting on you!
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Cherie 9 years ago
Me too, cuz the Japanese lady that lived across the courtyard from me would yell, 'Hey, hey, hey!' and pretty soon her old tom would show up. Of course, this is in the US.
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Metta Yunita 9 years ago
This means: kitty, come here! While the onomatopea for cat is 'nya' or sometimes 'nyan'.
-- 9 years ago
No this post is about what you say to get a cat's attention, not necessarily nyan or whatever call like miao, mew, etc
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Angela Lack 9 years ago
Repetition. They don't really understand our words, but just like pavlovs dog, an animal understands things that are repeated. Also our tone of voice
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Rei Yang 9 years ago
As someone from northeast China, I instantly thought of miaomiaomiao too. But mimi also works. It's more for a kitten where miaomiao is just for cats in general
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Courtney Mount 6 years ago (edited)
I put this through Google Translate and it had been translated as 'Seconds and seconds'
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tigertae 9 years ago
Poooooeeess poes poes poes. Poooooeeeeesss poes poes poes. :'D (pronounce it like poo's)
Cherie 9 years ago
Pooss, pooss pooss... my cat is giving me weird looks now, and it's your fault! Lol
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Santhush Fernando 9 years ago
In Sri Lanka, because of our Dutch legacy, we too say 'Poos, poos, poos' to cats whom we call 'Balala' in written language.
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Gloria Wesson 9 years ago
That's correct..! Only my 92-years old granny who lives in the mountains, calls cats "Muschi"... LOL...!!
Jay Martin 9 years ago
This is great - such an extraordinary example of how language develops and takes hold across our wonderful planet. (Love the Grump!)
#10
Сашка Бес 9 years ago
actually in ukraine we say kyts kyts kyts from word kytsunia (kitty) and also kis kis kis from word kisa (kitty)
Tom 9 years ago
Yes, but I think you are saying the same thing - keets in English reads as "kyts", because "ee" reads as "y". The post is meant to tell English people how to pronounce it, not how to write it :)
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André Tóth 9 years ago
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.
Simon Barbara 9 years ago
the hungarian word is 'cicc' from "cica' (kitty) .. it's weird to see 'tsits' but the pronunciation is correct by the way. and André Tóth was correct as well... "cici"... oh, how I hate this word for boobs :D
Henrik Hargitai 9 years ago
nem tudom ki csinalta a feliratot, de kozolnem hogy a magyar nem cirill betut hsdznal, ezert nem kell fonetikusan atirni bakker
Tamas Kemner 5 years ago
En pedig kozolnem, hogy az oldal latogatoi tobbsegeben nem magyarok. Honnan tudnak, hogy a magyar kiejtesben a cicc inkabb "tsits" mint "szikc"? A cicc kiejteset csak a magyarok ismerik, ez az oldal pedig nemzetkozi...
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Bilal Tatar 9 years ago
this picture should be for #11 (Turkish) because it is a Turkish street and this is a typical Turkish relax mode sitting which we call "tasaklari yayarak oturma" meaning sitting by laying the balls" :))
Abbas Özpınar 8 years ago
It name is Tombili and lived in Kadiköy, Istanbul. Tombili died 1. August 2016. People love it so much and It was a mascot of Kadiköy. People put its sculpture after it was died. kedi-tombi...89615b.jpg 
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Ines Belkahla 9 years ago
It actually works in pairs like bish-bish bish-bish and we use Kiss to make them go away.
Adriana Vladislav 9 years ago
Hahaha true but Tunisia is not Sahara why you put this picture of desert cat ? Check out Tunisia on google
Abir Othmani 9 years ago
Tunisia has very different climates, the sand cats live in the Tunisian desert. We don't have them as pets.
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Kane Garza 6 years ago
None of that these my cats pick him in back of me 106 Westland place apartment seven Mesa Az85201
Jenie Gardon 9 years ago
In Philippines, we are used to calling BESH-BESH-BESH those animals who steal our boyfriends. haha!
Abir Othmani 9 years ago
Yes they are, but we don't hold wild animals as pets. This picture is totally misleading.
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Amina Hamrouni 9 years ago
This is not a tunisian cat, this is asavge cat, from the Desert. The one in the photo is Yoda, a tunisian cat, adopted from the street ^_^ WP_003277-...3f07ad.jpg 
Grace Barclay 9 years ago
They are Sand Cats and a highly endangered animal...
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Amanda Panda 9 years ago
As an American... this is true, I hear this all the time...usually by people who have no business near a cat.
Cherie 9 years ago
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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Anastacia Burns 9 years ago
LOL that's what we say in America, but this kitty is Maru, from Youtube and he's from Japan!
Jennifer Miller 9 years ago
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.
Nile Clark 9 years ago
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
Erica Russo 9 years ago
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.
Bobbi Newell 9 years ago
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.
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Lee Kerr 9 years ago
You don't. In the UK, including England it's a variation on Psswsssws Psswsssws Psswsssws. It's accompanied by holding your hand oud out with your thumb upermost ond rapidly rubbing your thumbver the tips of your first two fingers.
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Donna Oades 9 years ago
I've never heard this in my whole 26 years in England! Puss puss puss puss puss, yes, chh chh chh chh chh, no.
Tamas Kemner 5 years ago
Because you're from Africa, where you have lions and you don't really want to call them.
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Never heard anyone here do that, lol! Maybe puss,puss,puss,,,, or a tongue click, but I don't know what this is meant to sound like,,,chh!?
Alexa Roberts 9 years ago
I've never said that, and I was born in the UK. We use a teeth-sucking sound like tssst-tssst-tssst.
Andreea Anamaria 9 years ago
If its a tongue click or kissing noise, than that`s also here in Romania and i think in more countries. Maybe it`s the most common, universal calling sound.
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Alast Gentile 9 years ago
Actually no, more like a similar kissing sound with lips.. Micio micio is like the childish version of "cat cat"
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Kinjal Sharma 9 years ago
Tsk- tsk-tsk is actually whst i hear up north people calling cats with
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Liga Karklina 9 years ago
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.
Evette Scheepers 3 years ago
In South Africa we also go kss-kss-kss, only found out it was different in other countries when I was in Ireland and they called their cats the way we call over dogs, yes this is also different.
Guna Petrova 9 years ago
Ksss ksss kss it is. haven't even heard the old people doing the minka thing
Dawn Frank 9 years ago
Hey there's an app called "bread kittens" that looks exactly like this, just in real life!!
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Jennifer North Fitzgibbons 9 years ago
Face off! I don't know which side to look at. They are both perfectly beautiful! Would you have two names for this kitty?
Curtis Brown 9 years ago
Forgot Canada. We use "ps-ps-ps" or "kitty-kitty-kitty" or 3 consecutive tongue click noises
Patti Wagner 3 years ago
This is one of the most interesting and beautiful cats I have ever seen!
Nataša Stuper 9 years ago
Actually my grandma uses mats mats to scare other cats coming in our garden
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Jennifer North Fitzgibbons 9 years ago
I love this one, I will name my next cat Bishito! If that cat ever goes to Mexico, it'll be very confused. lol
Veronica Leyva 9 years ago
Aqui en México le llamamos : "Rrrrrrrr -Rrrrrrrrr" o "Minino-Minino"
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Martina Vávrová 3 years ago
Where I'm from, we do č-č-č. I'd say both variants are equally correct.
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Sylvie Lerbletier 9 years ago
A) That cat is probably the happiest citizen (if not the only one) of the Czech republic. From now on, anytime I sing 'Soft Kitty', this is the one to imagine. B) You, people, yes, officially it's či či či (chi-chi-chi), but who says that? I've always said č-č-č (aka the one written above in the picture), anyway, there isn't a noise more effective to summon a cat than the one of an opening fridge door. We all know that AND it applies on practically EVERY pet. Case closed.
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Theodora Eh 9 years ago
LOL I didn't even notice, and was about to make a greek pic to post!
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Dawn Frank 9 years ago
This looks like the cat from this commercial, especially at the end https://youtu.be/Qe88s3tpH0A
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Bambi Bambszi 9 years ago
In Serbia we call them by saying Mac-mac-mac (said with a c that sounds like a German tz for example)
Zulma Ruiz 9 years ago
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
Cherry Warr 9 years ago
notice that all of them (almost) come in three short words. Apparently cats universally respond to repeating, short sounds.
M Mitchell Marmel 9 years ago
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... ;-)
Andry Surya 9 years ago
You should add Indonesia.. We called it.. Umm.. I don't know how other people called their cat
Ciera Claire 9 years ago
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..
Bambi Bambszi 9 years ago
In Serbia we call them by saying Mac-mac-mac (said with a c that sounds like a German tz for example)
Zulma Ruiz 9 years ago
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
Cherry Warr 9 years ago
notice that all of them (almost) come in three short words. Apparently cats universally respond to repeating, short sounds.
M Mitchell Marmel 9 years ago
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... ;-)
Andry Surya 9 years ago
You should add Indonesia.. We called it.. Umm.. I don't know how other people called their cat
Ciera Claire 9 years ago
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..
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