What are cats thinking?
Masters of strategic silence and the loaded stare.
Cats barely meow at each other. Adult cats communicate by scent and body language, and the meow is something they developed almost entirely for humans - a sound aimed at us, sharpened over generations of being answered.
The stare is not affection by default. A slow blink is the friendly version and cats offer it to people they are comfortable with; a fixed, unblinking look is closer to a question about what you are about to do.
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