One time a farmer's cow was shot. How do you mistake something that's
black & white & says "mooooo"?! My cat's full name is Shadow Racer.
He has a tendency to race from one end of the house to the other & back.
It's usually shortened to just Shadow, which still suits him. He's my shadow.
He's mostly black, but has a white patch on his throat/chest area (it looks a
bit like a cravat). He doesn't weigh as much as kieran, but he is still a big cat
(about 18 or 19 lbs) & he's all muscle. He acts like a panther except when I'm
around. Then he's a big baby. He also thrusts out his lower lip & "pouts", but
he looks like a monkey when he does it, so we usually laugh & upset him all
the more.
You forgot about Shadow running around and howling with a funny mewl that sounds like he's saying, "I'm Shadow! I'm Shadow! "Iiiiimmm Shaadoowoooo!"
(And if you go, "Yes, I know that you're Shadow", he grunts at you and glares.)
He also says "no" and "mommy".
I'm convinced that the only reason cats don't speak conversationally is because they fell there's nothing to be gained with conversing with us.