¿CÓMO DEBES HABLARLE A TU GATO para que no te ignore? 👶🐱

Foreign. How many times have you talked to your cat and felt like it completely ignored you? Well, since I know that these situations happen every day, today I'm going to give you a series of tricks to get your cat's attention and stop ignoring you. Hi, I'm Carlos and I'm a veterinarian and this is Alcatofo. Welcome to the Happy Pets and Families Channel. If you watch this video until the end today, you'll learn how to talk to your cat so that it pays attention to you. And be careful, because there are some scientific studies that say that our cats sometimes deliberately ignore us as if they were our rebellious teenage children. First of all, I have to tell you that the YouTube algorithm has been treating us badly lately. Many times the videos don't reach you because YouTube doesn't want them to. So if you've heard about this video and want to share it with everyone, you're doing us a big favor and also showing us a little love. Give the video a like comment. And also, if you want, you can give us a super thank you. Have you ever noticed that when you talk to your cat, it points its little ears towards where it hears your voice, but often decides not to move from its spot? Well, at that moment, your cat is ignoring you. The University of Tokyo demonstrated this in 2013. But even if you call its name several times, like hey, hey, hey, hey, it won't pay any attention because it says, okay, human, I've already heard you the first time. I'm sitting here very comfortably and I'm not going to move an inch. Quote, squeak, squeak. Look at me, finally, Squeak. I didn't pee there. Squeak. This complicates things a lot for us because of course, if we can't call them by their name so that they come when we call, then how are we supposed to communicate with our cat? And in fact, this is also something that often crosses your mind. Hey, I have a question here from a follower who asked us in a video and he says, hello, Carlos. You have to talk to them as if they were children. Put on a fairy tale voice, or better yet, with your natural voice. Thank you very much and a hug from Teruel. Well, I have to tell you that, yes, you have to talk to cats as if they were little children. Well, I'm not saying it, I'm not making it up. But a study by the University of Alfred in France from 2022 has shown that our feline companions respond better and pay us a little more attention if we address them as if they were babies. It's a type of way of speaking that we humans have that shares a series of structures or elements. When we address cats in an affectionate way, and when we address a small child, generally this way of speaking has to do with a higher tone, words like eh that are more paused, more separated in context and in discourse. And that's why our cats are likely to interpret them much better. What was observed in that study is that if you address your cat as if it were an adult, well, with a normal, neutral tone, it will lose interest much faster. But what was also observed in this study is that our cats will only respond to this way of speaking to them if they know us. In other words, if a person completely unfamiliar to your feline companion uses this tone of voice, they will ignore them exactly the same. And note. An interesting fact that has been observed not only in this study, but in others, is that women generally relate better to cats. Human psychology studies have also shown that women tend to be more empathetic when addressing our animal companions. Therefore, it is more normal for them to use this way of communicating that our cats understand better. And note that these are all generalities, but anyway, they do explain a little bit about how our cats behave. The truth is that from my point of view, they explain it quite well. And if you want to know a little more about all these studies that I'm telling you about, I'll leave them linked below in the description box so you can take a look and expand your knowledge. Well, okay, but if we have to know the cat in order to communicate with them, even if it's in a tone like a small child, we. What happens? We can't address just any cat, even if it doesn't know us effectively. Well, here comes the real secret to capturing any cat's attention. The plot twist of the video. What most influences whether a cat will listen to you is not what you say or even how you say it with your voice, but with your body language. In a recent study from 2023 by the Cognitive Ethology Laboratory at the University of Paris National Anterre, it was concluded that our cats will respond much better to a multimodal way of communicating with them, which they called that. And it's because our cats understand better when we are addressing them through gestures, or if these gestures are also accompanied by our voice. So you can call your cat a billion times, but if you don't accompany those commands with gestures, it won't pay any attention to you. What gestures do cats interpret best? With our gaze, we have to direct the cat's curiosity toward what we want it to do. If we extend our hand and alternate our gaze between our hand and its eyes directly at its face, the cat will understand that we are telling it to come. For example, if we accompany this with a slow blinking technique, which I've told you many times, makes cats feel calm and confident, we will greatly reinforce the message we are sending it. And of course, we will also have to avoid sudden movements, so it is easier for a cat to respond to that way of calling it. For example, if we are sitting down, if it doesn't see us as a threatening figure, and if we are not moving all the time. The interesting thing about all this is that this way of addressing cats doesn't only work with cats that know us and have a certain bond with us. It's effective with everyone, even strangers. Why do I tell you this? Well, because the study was done with cats that were used to being with people because they lived in a cat, but the people didn't know the cats directly. And cats that are given instructions using this form of nonverbal language are also shown confidence and approach them with their tails up or moving them slightly. If we also accompany this with the classic method, or by calling them by their name, we are achieving a multimodal form of communication, which is what the researchers said and which is very effective. And this is because our cats are more accepting of ways of telling them things that are congruent. You may have noticed many times that, for example, you are going to take your cat to the vet and you try to stay calm at home, talk to it very nicely, but in the meantime, you are messing around taking out the carrier, or perhaps you get a little nervous about taking your cat to the consultation. Well, our cat perceives that our body language is not congruent with what we are telling it. Our calm tone of voice does not say the same thing as our way of acting, and that is why it does not trust the situation. If our cat perceives both messages in the same way, our body language and our voice, it is more likely to listen to us. And all this is very important because we have to adapt our way of communicating to what our cats understand. They have already adapted to us. In the wild, our cats do not usually meow at each other because it is a way of addressing themselves, especially towards humans. Over time, cats have learned from people that when they meow, they get things that are important to them. If they seem kind of cute, like they meow at you and come to you, you're more likely to give them food, for example, or, for example, in the past, they were allowed into the house, and that's why they've continued to do it. However, it seems that humans are a little bit more clumsy. And it had to be in the year 2023, when cats have been living with us for 9,000 years, that we started to figure out the most effective ways to tell your cat to do one thing or another. And precisely because this information is not available to many people, we still insist on calling our cat from the other side of our house without it seeing us. If your feline companion doesn't have a stimulus, a strong impulse to move because, I don't know, because it wants to be with you at that moment, or you've opened the can of food and wants dinner, then your cat will probably ignore you because it will hear you. It's true that he'll know you're calling him, but he'll say, well, I'm very happy here. If my human wants something, he can come here and give it to me. And now it's your turn to tell me in the comments if you've ever tried to talk to your feline companion in a slightly different way, or if you've used a tone of voice that makes you pay more attention. On the other hand, if you liked the video, you know that you can give us a like and give us lots of love and also subscribe to the channel if you haven't already. We also have a secondary channel here on YouTube called Questions and Answers from a Veterinarian. Come on over and check it out. And before we go, let's meet Gregory, Rufina, Kaylo and Milo. They greet us with their human companion, Lucia Solis from Uruguay. These two little ones are called Mal and Moira, and they greet us with their human companion, Andrea. Hey, something happened to Moira. That happens a lot. At first they thought she was a kitten and instead it was a cat. This the kitten's name is Petarda and she greets us from Royce with David and Mari Angelus, who live there from Dosenses. Thank you very much for following the Pets and Happy Families channel. And we'll see you in the next video. Yes, the cat. Well combed. Well combed. So that this doesn't happen to you. Today I bring you this video so that this doesn't happen to you. So that this doesn't happen to you. So that this doesn't happen to you. Today I'll tell you how you have to communicate with your cat.

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Shish, shish, shish. Now he's paying attention to millions of things. Jose or Ace. That's it. Look at me.

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Sure. I'm calling you because he listened to me. Shush. Look at me. You're leaving? You're leaving already? Oh, my goodness. Come on. Come on. Keep sleeping. Come on. But you're hurting me. Love hurts. Come here. Come on. These people have to see you. They want to know about you. It's like when you video call someone. Well, not you, but you're on someone's video call.