Angels4 Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 But you know that noise you make when you call your cat? Tut, tut, tut....here kitty, kitty, kitty. Today our big tom Ray was walking by the run and I swear one of the girls made that sound...Ray even heard it and turned around to walk back up to the run, as soon as he got close enough the girls puffed themselfs up real big and screeched at him. He ran off with his tail between his legs. It was if the girls were taunting him. Wish I had a video camera!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 you mean that sort of kissing noise? (surely everyone does this to their cats?) I don't think even that would tempt my cat near the run. If he comes out of the cat-flap and sees a loose chicken, he usually heads back in. That's very funny though - do you think the chickens are deliberately teasing him? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angels4 Posted November 29, 2008 Author Share Posted November 29, 2008 YES the kissing noise. I didn't know how to spell it so I thought noone would understand what I was trying to say, and yes I think the girls were doing it on purpose...It was funny because Ray usually makes a wide berth around the chicken run. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mostin Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 Fantastic, chickens teasing cats , yes I know what you mean, that tch tch tch noise, to call them. Clever girls, copying you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omletina Kyckling Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 Hee hee, that's superb! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fowlbird Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 chickens can be great mimics! Ginger I (RIP) was always up top no good and I always said "ah ah ah!" as a warning then one day I said it and she turned round to me and did it back... people don't believe me but our Irish chickens were great talkers - especially the goooooooooooodniiiiiiiiight bit when I put them to bed - it fascinated OH when our JRT attacked a chook we put it in a basket next to the radiator in our bedroom... next morning there were 5 anxious girls asking after her so we let her out whereupon she told them everything ever been gossiped about by hens? chooOOOk bok bok! You'll never guess how they roost she was up and down all night he makes a funny noise all night chooOOOk bok bok! chooks have a great sense of the ridiculous - they really made fun of Fred Bassett when he was small - he couldn't run well and kept falling over his ears - that got them cackling! "Call that a dog?" they'd yell... our cat, George, says "Ooh NOOOOOOOOOO!" when he comes in the house and I swear he stands at the door and says "out", then there was William who called "Mum!" when he wanted me - George has lately started that one too... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire Pudding Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 I had a cat when I was young - Fluff - who would come in and call 'ello? Marmite used a particular call for the same purpose (sort of a prrrrooowwwp?) but it never sounded quite like Fluff's! My chickens haven't started talking yet but the local starlings do a very convincing siren impression and I swear one of them wolf-whistled at me at the weekend. OH thinks I am flattering myself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smanners Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 We have a hen who purrs at one of our cats as she walks past the netting. I haven't heard the noise before and it seems to be reserved just for the one cat. Angelica Beau was rescued from a farm as a tiny kitten and has bonded more with chickens than the other cats who are mostly terrified of the hens She often sits on the cube roof just watching the hens and rolls around on the grass when they free range. There must be some kind of mutual farm association I guess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fowlbird Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 My chickens haven't started talking yet but the local starlings do a very convincing siren impression and I swear one of them wolf-whistled at me at the weekend. OH thinks I am flattering myself what does he know? this house has a long garden and the fruit and veg patch has always been at the other end when we first moved in here I would be at the top, just getting in to the digging or whatever when I'd hear our phone ring so I'd run all the way back to the house and the phone would be silent... so I'd walk all way the back to the end of the garden and the phone would ring... it was a particularly distinctive tone so I knew it was ours this went on for weeks... but only when I was at the top of the garden, never when I was in the house it was starlings and I swear they were laughing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
