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    I'd love to see this book as Georgie is such a talker!  He has different 
    sounds for different moods.  Sometimes we can have a "conversation" with 
    him, which is quite amazing.
    
    Does anyone else have a talkative cat?
    
    Karen (and Georgie)

    Mine herd has progressed from simple "words" to complete sentences!
    
    Now if I can just keep them off the phone...
    
    -maureen
    

    Peaches is definitely the talker in our household.  We carry on
    conversations, too!  The funny thing is she often mimics the tone 
    of my voice.  If I speak loudly to  her, she'll respond in a loud
    voice.  Sometimes I go all the way down to a whisper and she answers 
    in the softest voice she can manage.
    
    Paula
    

Cardigan and Milo are both great communicators.

Cardigan has a sweet little voice, but she relies mostly on facial/body 
expression and sign-Language.  I'm not kidding! She actually moves her paws
and toes expressively.

Milo talks up a storm.  He is a superb conversationalist, but his true gift is
in giving instructional lectures. He brings his mastery of inflection, vocal
range and vocabulary, complimented by a wealth of facial expressions and
superbly crafted bodily attitudes, to any number of complex and fascinating 
subjects.

Milo was a trapped in the wild kitten, yet his first oration [age 7ish weeks,
1.2lbs.] came just twenty minutes after I got him home and was on the subject
of kitchen appliances.  He's in favour of them.

Each and every Christmas brings an increasingly pointed lecture on the evils
of bringing a large tree indoors where it doesn't belong and then assaulting
its dignity by tarting it up with silly hanging things.  He doesn't approve
of Christmas trees.

By far and away, Milo's most eloquent outpourings are on the subject of food.
He once spent 20 minutes on the history and development of pizza by cats in
ancient Abyssinia [he was 3 months old at the time].  Why, only last night he
perched himself on the arm of the sofa and delivered a quick nutritional talk
on the importance of tomato juice and worcestershire sauce in a cat's diet;
quickly reducing my argument that he was making it up because he wanted his own
glass with a dazzling array of facts punctuated with erudite head tilts and
authoritative shoulder-squaring.

I had thought that I was passably well educated and informed before I met Milo;
but the past three years have been and education!

  Ann

    Tasia Marie wanders around the house talking to herself.  This was
    extremely amusing until one day I noticed that she was following
    me - and we were both talking to ourselves.
    
    Joshua talks back to the answer machine.
    

    Happy is the "talker in my house".. she  chit chats all the time,,
    it is really funny,, Pookie is quiet,, and Preschie is also
    quiet, but that could be because Happy never lets them get a
    word edgewise..
    Kate

    Does the book mention how to get your cat to talk?
    
    Dickens is VERY quiet.  ---- he did prrrpt to a wasp the other night
    though.
    
    Thanks,
    Paula

    
    	talk?  heck no, Duke screams!  =)
    
    	He did finally figure out that it's me-ow and not just meeeeeee!
    	We have conversations in the kitchen cuz I like to imitate him.
    	He gets real frustrated when I do that and screams even louder!
    	Cary just sits there and laughs.
    
    	Sasha will talk every now and then.  Like "pet me!" but usually
    	not very often.
    
    	Brandi only if the can opener is on or if she wants to go out.
    
    	And Chloe, well Chloe only hisses and growls....still.  It's
    	been almost a year since we got her and she and Sasha still
    	don't get along....
    
    	The most talkative creature in our house is CoCo our cockatiel.
    	Bird never shuts up! =)
    

Boo Boo is our yakker in the family of 5 cats -- she lets you know exactly
what happend during my absence, when she wants to go out, be fed and just plain
yak - she sounds more like yick, yick, yick than meow.  Lightning has
learned to howl, ow, ow, ow when being bathed.  

I not sure if you can teach them to talk but talking to them certainly
would enhance the possibility of them talking back!! 

Maybe because the TV is left on Disney Channel for Boo Boo (who simply
adores TV) that she picked up the yakking, eh?

/Marian

    It's lovely to hear that there are so many talkers!
    
    Georgie uses his right paw a lot sometimes when we have a chat.  He lifts
    it up and down like a dog as though he's wanting to give a paw.
    
    If Shaun and I are talking to eachother and he is on one of our laps he'll
    often join in with little squeaks and squawks.  It's so cute.   He's
    also very noisy at feeding time.
    
    Another thing that makes him talk is when I'm working on my terminal at
    home.  He loves the sound of the keys clicking and squawks whenever there
    is a beep.  Often he jumps onto the desk to get a closer look, and
    sometimes even touches the keys himself!
    
    Bye for now,
    
    Karen (and Georgie)

    All of our cats "talk", just some of them use body-language primarily.
    Isis and Mao are the big chatterboxes.  Mao sounds like a Siamese but
    Isis chirups and trills alot.  She has a very definite "ou" sound that
    means "out" - or means open this door please - because she also uses
    it for going down cellar to play.  
      Of course she pats the doorknob too.
      N

    HOW TO TALK TO YOUR CAT
    
    Author:  Jean Craighead George
    Publisher:  Warner Books by arrangement with Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
                Orlando, Florida  32887
    Copyright:  1985
    
    Around $6.
    
    Enjoy!
    

      Cleo  is the big talker in my house.  She chirups and trills all the
    time and has special sounds when she wants you to play ball.  She
    actually calls you when she wants to play.  
      Chief Kitty has a very special "ooouww" (out!) that demands
    immediate attention.  Maybe it's the way he says it that gets you to
    drop whatever you're doing, no matter what it is and let him OUT!
    
           re: .4 Ann that was reallllly funny!