Does a Cat Growl?!

[Sus]

Hello pet-talkers!

Wonder if anyone would help me with a small language problem? What does a cat do, when it makes a warning sound - you know that sort of long, singing tune of warning two rivals would make when they accidentally meet in you backyard? My dictionary suggests "growling" but to me (and my danish ears) this sound more like the thing a dog would do...!!??
I need the word to be able to tell you about some peculiar behaviour of Bella's!

Lots of love,
Sus and the Bellacat

[Laura's Babies]

A deep "GRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrr" is how they growl. Mine growl in phases. Chester suddenly learned he could growl when he was about a year old and he growled at everything for about a month. I would ask him what he was doing, he would look at me and growl. Tell him company is coming... he would look at me a growl.. It was a new noise for him and he loved using it and used it a lot until it got old and he quit. Giz has learned how and a few months ago, she went through that same phase.

[Barbara]

Ask Edwina's Secretary what Filou said when she picked him up to tell him some nice things

I call it growling

[aguu]

They definitely growl.
I've heard Mishka growl twice. Once when my friend was visiting with a dog. A few moments after they left and I was sitting on the bed with Mishka comforting him - the doorbell rank. He jumped up and let out the deepest meanest GRRRRRRRRRROWL... I could not believe it.

And recently I heard Mishka growl when he was having his shrimp and Bean approached too close!!!

[catmandu]

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[sirrahbed]

Here is Lizzie with her favorite fuzzball that a friend sent.

Her brother is looking at her and she is (in the picture) making that low singing/humming sound in her throat. I call it growling, too

Maybe what dogs do could better be described as snarling??

[Lacey]

Zelda definitely growls (and I swear I heard her let out a little growly bark the other day). Goodness knows she's been doing a lot of growling at Kahlua. Mowgli hasn't learned how yet. He hisses instead.

[christa]

Josie growls ALL THE TIME! Mostly when she & her brother are play fighting . . . she sounds like a LIONESS!!!

[Edwina's Secretary]

And I clearly understood Filou when he growled at me as my sweet little princess....Edwina...growls rather frequently.

[nibblets]

Oh my yes! Miss Julie will get her fluff up and growl at my son when he is 'bothering' her during her beauty rest. Of course me, being Meowmie, can 'bother' her and she doesn't growl.

[Randi]

Fister used to growl when he was little. In the yard, he would try his best to chase Pjevs out - usually with succes. These days, if Fister goes down, Pjevs will be there waiting for me, and he just ignores Fister totally, and Fister him.

[Logan]

Butter has never growled to my knowledge, believe it or not. But Mimi, the Queen of this house, definitely has a low, threatening growl!!!!!

[sarifish]

oh yea my cats growl its a low growl but its distinct

[chocolatepuppy]

My cats definately growl!

[janelle]

My little one growls when the bigger one holds her down. But then she is my little tiger striped and tigers growl. My Siamese hisses more but he isn't the one being held down. He can be such a bully at times.

They are both very quiet cats it's just when the older one is being a bully will the little one says much. I have to break it up and he runs into the bedroom under the bed. Geesh, kits.