With all my cats: I like to do a cat scratch gesture like catwoman from a distance while we all laze around (again, from a distance).
Its like miming scratching a non-existant surface and they intuit that the imaginary surface I’m scratching is them.
Also “we” call scratching “scratcheese” lol
I speak with my cats in different languages - Portuguese (L1) with Kika, German with Siegfrieda (when I adopted her I was studying the language).
I like “kneading” Siegfrieda while purring. I call it Kätzrach (Kätzensrache, lit. “kittens’ revenge”). She seems to enjoy it quite a bit, too.
Kika on the other hand gets gentle buttslaps since she’s rather ticklish so she hates when her fur gets stroked. It’s gentle but that doesn’t stop the folks here from saying that she’s “apanhando” (lit. “being spanked”).
Do cats say Meow in diff’rent dialects?
I don’t think so. Although a research on the impact of different languages on the pets’ vocalisations would be cool.
I was being cute but thanks haha. People just notate is different, like sometimes people joke about Chinese-owned cats saying “Mao” 😹