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?'"
Hahaha mine reacts to the sound of packages opening!
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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!
Me too! But rattling the box of treats (or a can being opened) always works better.
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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)
Yes, my grand-mother use this to call the cats ! And of course kotek / kotka
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!
i would write it more like "kici-kici-kici" and shorter "ci-ci-ci" is also popular, cats react the same
it isn't about a letter, it's about a sound 'tsch' is close to 'ci/ć' for a foreigner
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It would be too close to "czi" instead of "ci" I guess ;)
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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.
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.
sorry.....three comments michi-mich...ed9fdf.jpg 
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
