Your question is how many “talk back” …only one of my current feline owners (C.K.) limits his conversation to talking back. That leaves: 1. The outside boys, Butch who is the strong silent type (to my knowledge never vocalizing) but will demonstrate with his actions he understands what I have said, Pretty Boy who will talk, call for me and talk back, then there’s Billy who will talk back, will initiate a conversation but is usually purring in apparent gratitude for food and kindness. 2. Marmalade who responds particularly to my telling him to be quiet but has no problem what so ever telling me to HURRY UP when I’m fixing his “all to infrequent meals and all to little food”. 3. G.G. who has a LOT to tell his momma and initiates conversations if I don’t. 4. Prissy who has absolutely no problem expressing her feelings as well as her TOTAL dislike of the little girls even if I haven’t asked. 5. L.B. who always responds to my talking with appropriate sounds but will also start conversations in a questioning and conversational tone. 6. Ima Puzzle who sometimes just listens, sometimes talks back and very rarely will express an apparently independent unrelated thought. 7. And last but not least of course there is Ms.Turi who will most assuredly talk back, has no problem expressing her thoughts unbidden and sometimes makes it extremely clear she feels that something I’ve said is beneath her to comment or “how dare you say that to me?” Of course Reba talks to all her “siblings” (even if some would rather she didn’t), at times it’s “lets play”, sometimes it’s “stay away this is mine”, could be “come on run so I can chase you”, “are you ok?”, “you’re my buddy” and of course there is her herding instinct “go over there/that way”. She also talks/talks back to momma, “I want to play don’t tell me no!”, “play tug a war?”, “OH BOY you have the hose!!” and this one (usually Ms.Turi) “did/is doing something bad momma come see”. There are other routine conversations, “I don’t care what you say I don’t want to go there/you to leave!” …. Sometimes I think it’s a good thing I don’t know for sure what is being said by anyone of them but I can imagine!  LOL After posting this earlier.... this afternoon C.K. jumped onto my lap and for the first time in 14+yrs.immediately started a conversation as if he had done so for all these years. Geez some people's kids....makes you feel like a real dummy!   |