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...that my cat runs away whenever he hears me singing? I sing along to tunes on my MP3 player, but as soon as he hears me the cat jumps off the sofa and dives out of the cat flap! Is this because he's a rescue cat? Would a cat with a more stable background be better able to cope with it??

😂 😂

I used to have a cat who was furious if you sang and would come and tell you off.
Sang all the more...

I saw a clip of a cat who attacks his owner everytime she starts singing. He's pretty violent. So you're not alone.

My cat looks at me like there is a fire alarm going off and we must all EVACUATE NOW! Stupid woman person!

When you say ‘singing,’ are you hitting all the right notes... or singing the right notes in the wrong order?
I wouldn’t dream of asking you if you were...maybe...errr... hitting the wrong notes.

The whole family runs away when I start to sing, not just the cat I only sing when I'm alone in the car. Mind you, we did used to have a daft old dog who'd join in, howling along while I sang. I miss her, we were quite the party act

I used to have a dog that howled when someone sang.

My younger cat jumps up and rubs herself against me, and purrs loudly when I sing. She must like it.

My older cat walks off though.

We used to have two cats -brother and sister - that had completely different attitudes to music and singing.

The male would come and sit against the bottom of the piano when I played.

Both my DDs used to sing and would often practice in the living room. No matter where he was, he could be out in the garden, or which one of them was singing, he would come rushing into the room, jump onto the sofa and sit and listen the whole time.

The female on the other hand, when I played the piano, would jump up onto a nearby stool, lean towards me and meow continuously until I stopped.

If she was in the room when my DDs sang she was rush from the room as if it was the worse sound she'd ever heard.

Both DDs have great singing voices so it was nothing to do with singing ability; one cat liked music, one didn't.

One of mine would sing along with me. Felt sorry for the neighbours.

best way to clear a room in my house lol.. kids scatter

I really must try this. 😂

You—-Singing
🐱———You’re not thinking of going on Xfactor are you, human.

My cat tries to attack me if I whistle, she also attacks the house phone (but not the mobile ) if I'm on hold and it's on speakerphone. I think there must be certain tones that hurt her ears or upset her in some way, can cats suffer from misophonia I wonder

My cat would make me rock him to sleep singing the theme song from a tv show. I miss him.

@orewineplease Good point. It's possible that the notes may not be coming out in the right order

Mine used to join in with me.

I sounded about as good as her so there's no accounting for taste

@JObriensbollox

I think cats have sensitive ears and loud or unpleasant noises upset them.

What are you trying to suggest?

Mine are scared of tin foil.

I once pulled some off the roll, not making that much noise I hasten to add, while they were eating and the whole lot of them did that panicked scrabble where they start slipping around and then bolted for the catflap causing a pile up (we have 4 of our own and foster rescue cats, so there could have been 6, 8, 10 of them, I don't remember) in the haste to escape from the terror.

It was funny but obviously also upsetting that I'd inadvertently caused them that much distress and now I'm much more mindful with the tinfoil roll.