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The findings, drawn from the analysis of nearly a thousand cats around the world, suggest that the ancestors of today's tabbies, Persians and Siamese wandered into Near Eastern settlements at the dawn of agriculture. They were looking for food, not friendship.

Well, D'OH!

My cat, Ace, has at least a couple of dozen variations of "meows" "preows" and "peuws", some of which might mean "pet me" or "let me out", but most of them are variations of

FEED ME! "

I have a Manx that has a large assortment of “meow's”, “rrrr’s” and “merow’s” most of which I too also believe is his way of telling me that his food bowl is empty. I have gotten one of the auto-feeders that hold about 1 pound of dry food and that seems to keep him happy. But if that feeder runs empty he will let me know. One of my favorite ways to get payback for being a cat waiter is to mess with him on the feeder. When it is empty he makes a beeline to the kitchen to show me it is empty, I will then add in about 5-10 kernels of food. He will stare at the newly added kernels for a few seconds then look at me with a “WTF” look, go back to staring to the kernels a bit, then scowl at me with a look of “Fill it up or I will kill you and eat you when you sleep.”