In one of the cat books I have called Cat Speak, it says to convey 'I love you' to a cat, you make eye contact and then do a slow blink of both eyes. I can to this to Julie and she will either blink back or she will come over and jump up on my lap.

When she was young and would start to bite me, I would make a little whimper sound and she would stop. It worked in training her not to bite when we play. She still gets a wild hair every not and then and takes a bite, but not hard enough to break the skin, just hard enough to say 'I'm a bad a**.'

We talk all the time. She loves to carry on conversations. When I sit at the computer, she will come up behind me and stretch up so she can tap me on the back to let me know she needs a bit of attention.