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a small tabby kitten standing on a wooden floor

“Adopt a Cat” – Shelter Stories

“Adopt, don’t shop” is a slogan that has been around for some time. Cat shelters often use it as a hashtag underneath their stories. The slogan is self-explanatory. so there’s no need to go into it. The stories are...

illustration of a grey cat walking from the left to the right, its tail is upright and it has a very friendly look

Catspeak Selection: April 2025

Just a few cat-inspired words found in April 2025. They are good examples for word formation. The meowpheme (morpheme) is given in <> as is usually done in linguistics. And some days you can use for your cat’s stories:

a cat at the vet's, the cat is white and fluffy, only the hands of the person holiding and of the examining vet are visible

Smol Stories

The story you open your social media feed to is this: The cat has been taken to the dreaded V.E.T., the cat gets the cone of shame and even has to stay at the V.E.T.’s overnight for observation. What...

a mother cat is lying with her three kittens in a straw bed The kittens are looking at you, the mother cat is about to clean one of her kittens

Catspeak Means Social

How about this? I give you a handful of words and just leave you to ponder them on your own:  community, identity, status, names, sociolect, cats, sociolinguistics. So there! You can certainly figure them out. But that would not be very...