Cat preferences, muddy or otherwise

Subject: RE: Cat preferences, muddy or otherwise
From: SharonA
Date: 11 Sep 02 - 11:18 AM

Hard to say... my older cat, Chester, when he was alive, loved Beethoven and Bach (and would roll over on the carpet blissfully). My younger cat, Arthur, prefers Wagner (and races around the house like a Valkyrie when he hears it!).

But both were quite attracted by my tape of the "Jingle Cats", and both kept trying to get inside my boom-box where they thought those singing cats must be!

Subject: RE: Cat preferences, muddy or otherwise
From: Grab
Date: 11 Sep 02 - 11:06 AM

As far as I'm concerned, anything that keeps the local feline vermin away from our house (and specifically our garden) is just fine by me.

Graham.

Subject: RE: Cat preferences, muddy or otherwise
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 11 Sep 02 - 11:03 AM

My cat loves the sound of the violin. When I am playing she jumps into the open case and purrs away. If the case is closed then she is sat as close to me as possible. I have a wooden flute and when I play that she walks around the room making a loud low wailing noise like she is in pain.......she might well be!!! If I put a CD of chart music or dance music on the first person the leave the room is my boyfriend followed very closely by the cat!!!

Cat

Subject: RE: Cat preferences, muddy or otherwise
From: sian, west wales
Date: 11 Sep 02 - 10:16 AM

I had a small dog once who used to like to lie as close as possible to the pedals of our organ. (Made life difficult) Another dog - border collie - liked to stand with the small hairs of his upper 'lip' only just touching the sound-box-bit (whatever that's called) of a concert harp. He'd stand as still as stone ... I never got the impression he actually enjoyed it; he seemed puzzled more than anything.

sian

Subject: RE: Cat preferences, muddy or otherwise
From: Bassic
Date: 11 Sep 02 - 10:07 AM

When I play music at my friends house, she has 2 Oriental and 1 Siamese, the cats seem to react very little to the music itself but love the movement involved in playing the Cello and Violin, however they do tend to disappear to the bedroom when both sets of bagpipes start up!!! After a few minutes a couple of curious faces can be seen peering round the corner wondering which of them is being strangled! (I will be the one being strangled if my piper friends read this!!! They get very sensative and defensive about the kind of noise((oops, sorry, music)) they make for some reason:-})

Subject: RE: Cat preferences, muddy or otherwise
From: MMario
Date: 11 Sep 02 - 09:40 AM

Our cats don't seem to react to music at all - but are attracted by fire; now the dog used to like the violin.

Subject: RE: Cat preferences, muddy or otherwise
From: Hollowfox
Date: 11 Sep 02 - 09:35 AM

Same here, although I did have a cat many years ago that liked the sound of my electric typewriter.

Subject: RE: Cat preferences, muddy or otherwise
From: mack/misophist
Date: 11 Sep 02 - 09:32 AM

Four cats let me share their house. Although there is often music playing, they never respond to it. The only things they notice are my natural ambiance mp3's - crickets, birds, etc.

Subject: Cat preferences, muddy or otherwise
From: sian, west wales
Date: 11 Sep 02 - 05:40 AM

Just saw this in the Globe & Mail online:

"What kinds of music should I buy for my cat? A team of Austrian animal psychologists has observed that cats, which have rapid pulses, appreciate music with a fast beat and prefer deep rather than high-pitched tones. They seem to love male-voiced choirs, the double bass and the oboe, but detest violins, writes Clare Chapman in The Sunday Times of London. For five days at a time, the test cats were filmed. If they liked what they heard, they moved closer to the speakers; if they didn't, they would stand still or move away."

I'm not much of a cat-person m'self, but it strikes me that cats may have cause (call it a 'gut' feeling) to take against certain instruments ...

sian