 Your cat has a lot to say. How she talks to other cats though is not through meows, like you might think. Cat language with each other includes some meows and other vocalizations, but body language, chemical cues, and sense make up most of feline communication. Learn more about cat's conversations. Vocal cat speech patterns. When you talk with your cat, you usually expect to hear her talk back through meows or purrs. When she wants to be fed, your cat might come to you and meow with a certain tone. Domestic cats have learned certain vocalizations activate their human guardians to give them what they want. This cat-to-human interaction, though, is not the same as cat-to-cat communication. Feral cats tend to be silent, with the occasional hiss or perhaps a purr. When domestic cats vocalize to each other, their sounds can include a range of meowing, murmurs, or purring, and higher intensity growls and howls. Loud meowing or hissing expresses anxiety or fear. Less intense meowing happens when your cat is confident in content. Low growling should be taken as a warning, especially after hissing. Feline body language. Inter-feline body language is another important communication tool. Cats can convey affection toward other cats through physical contact. For example, they might touch noses or rub against each other in greeting. Or, one might lick the top of the other cat's head. Why? This is a throwback to when their mother would groom and comfort them as kittens. Some part of cat's psyche recalls their time as kittens when their mother would lick them clean as they fed. When grown, cats will mimic this affection with cats they're friendly with. Your cat's tail can be quite chatty. When the tail is straight up, held vertically in the air, when approaching another cat, your cat is indicating friendly intentions. When the tail is held out and moves slowly from side to side, your cat is showing aggression. When your cat's tail is puffed out and held up, your cat is trying to appear bigger in the face of another cat's aggression or some other threat. When your cat tucks her tail between her back legs, she probably is signaling she is nervous or demonstrating submission. Ears and Eyes. A fight is about to happen if your cat's eyes are wide open and dilated and her ears lay flat. If your cat's ears are upright and her eyes are slightly open or closed, then the cats are at ease with each other. If your cat closes her eyes around another cat, then she trusts that cat enough to not be at full alertness. Belly Up. Sometimes a cat will roll onto its back when engaging with another cat. You might think your cat's exposed belly means come hither. While this belly showing move could indicate trust between the two cats and a willingness to be vulnerable, the belly up position could mean something entirely different. Feral Cats Expose Their Stomachs as a defensive posture. Cats roll onto their backs when fighting off predators. From that position, the cat has full access to its teeth and claws, its weapons. Hello. This video is sponsored by Beemix Pets. Are you looking for high quality cat collars at an affordable cost? Check out BeemixPets.com. Use coupon code KittenLife to get 20% off. How Cats Smell What Other Cats Are Saying. Cats have highly developed all factory senses, and they use these extensively and communicating with other cats. In fact, chemical conversation cues are the main ways your cat communicates with others. When you think of cat scent you might wrinkle your nose at the memory of cat urine. And yes, urination or spraying is one of the more obviously noticeable methods of communication. What is it communicating to other cats? Spraying marks territory and shows dominance. Cats have much less pungent forms of scent talk. A key form of feline communication is through pheromones. Your cat has scent glands on her paws, cheeks, lips, forehead, tail, flanks, and around her rectum. How and where cats deposit the pheromones and oils from these scent glands signal different meanings. Cats use scent to identify members of the same colony, define territory, create familiarity, announce reproductive status, learn more about unfamiliar cats in the environment, self soothe, bond with another, or as a form of covert aggression. For example, when your cat scratches on objects for marking purposes, she also leaves deposits from the scent glands in her paw pads, establishing her territory. Cats use the scent glands around their face as a bonding gesture and to show affection, through rubbing heads with each other or headbunting. Cats exchange scents when rubbing their bodies along each other. Communication between cats can be rather nuanced, and experts have not mapped out the entire dictionary of the feline language. Still, if you pay attention to your cat's interactions with other cats, keeping in mind the translations that were mentioned earlier, you'll probably be able to hear what your cat is saying. If you enjoyed this video, kindly press the like button. Also don't forget to subscribe with notifications on, so that you don't miss out on videos like this. Thank you for watching.