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And while meows, of course, vary from cat to cat, Kristyn Vitale, a certified applied animal behaviorist and founder of the Michigan-based Maueyes Cat Science and Education center, says there are ways to decode them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go kick the cat out of the bedroom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

And I know from personal experience with my own cat that I am an avid meower.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Respectfully: the only thing I want to do at 3:33 a.m. is use the lavatory or kick the cat out of the bedroom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

There were Mama and Daddy, me, Lulu the cat, and Rufus, each sitting in our own tree, eating slices of apple pie.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

Louise Haigh, Burnham's deputy, has vowed to "strip out needless bureaucracy" from government more generally, citing an example of there being three public consultations between 2019 and 2023 on whether to microchip cats.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Asked, for instance, if he meows to his cats, Jonathan B. Losos, an evolutionary biologist and author of the book, “The Cat’s Meow: How Cats Evolved From the Savanna to Your Sofa,” wouldn’t deny it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Adult cats, specifically, rarely meow to one another, instead preferring other vocal intonations or facial signifiers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

“We found some subtle but consistent differences in the pitch and length of meows between those two contexts, suggesting maybe cats have different meows for ‘Where did you go?’ and ‘You’re back!’

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Picking his way through the cats, he shut the kitchen door and started up the stairs.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

Last week, he was catted by the Association of German Friends of Cats, and by Herr Victor Fraenkl, chairman of the German League for Animal Rights, one of the Association's principal spokesmen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Still another kind of chimney was the "catted" chimney, made of "cats" or rolled-up strips of clay mixed with straw, and placed closely together within a framework of wooden posts and rails.

From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Henry Chandlee Forman

The larboard-bower anchor was catted immediately, and there it was left suspended, with a range of cable overhauled, in readiness to let go at a moment's notice.

From Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale by James Fenimore Cooper

At daylight next morning we catted the anchors, made all sail, and were the next day reposing like a swan in a lake at Black River.

From A Sailor of King George by A. Beckford Bevan

I gave our fellows in the fo'c'sle the tip, and they'll get them in position as soon as the anchors are catted.

From Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

He was a Viet Nam Vet who had been "catting" on the city streets for years.

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2016

The lads up front have got their sprint on at the top and after some catting and mousing they finish the San Mauro Cilento in the following order: Wauters, Boaro and Taborre.

From The Guardian ● May 6, 2013

We’ve been laying our voices down, catting and scatting, and following variations of the same notes for so long we didn’t always know we were doing it.

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia

The subsequent "catting" and "fishing" of the big "mud-hook" was all a confused dream to me.

From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Frank T. Bullen

They were heave-ho-ing, stopping and unstopping, pawling, catting, and fishing for three hours; and the sails hung from the yards all the afternoon, and were not furled until sundown.

From Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana