Should cats growl?

[Amish_Alpha]

I tried to talk about this on the discord, but no one noticed it. One of my cats, whenever she hears someone she doesn't know talking she starts to run around and growl really deep. I don't know how or why she does this does anyone know how this works?

[Guest]

Cats can growl like a dog. 

 

Purring and growling are vibrations. I heard that it “heals the cat” when any vibrations occur. 

[dizmo]

Sure. Why not. It's an animal.

@ARikozuM likely has some sort of fancy explanation based on "science" or some nonsense

<3 love you

[ARikozuM]

I’ve got one question for you:

 

Explosions?

 

/s

 

Your cat is just a bit defensive. Expose her to people a little more often. Have the strangers engage in play so that she sees them as a positive influence for her. If she still doesn’t want to stop growling, just let her be. Animals are just like humans and this one turned out to be the old grump on the porch. 

 

[JZStudios]

Cats are assholes, it's how they do.

[Sfekke]

Well our dog makes noises that resemble a piglet more then anything else when she's happy; so unless it sounds like they are chocking or cannot breathe I think it'd be fine.

 

Cute cat by the way

[dalekphalm]

To answer the basic question presented in the title:

 

"Should cats growl?"
 

Yes. Not every cat will growl. Others will growl sometimes, but only under specific stressors (strangers, perceived danger, etc). And still other cats will growl all the time because they're grumpy fucks.

 

Cats, like any other animal, have personalities. Every cat is different.

 

My oldest cat, Kerrigan (~5) is a grumpy asshole and she growls at strangers all the time, and she also growls basically every time she sees or walks near my other cat (who never growls).

[aezakmi]

my cat growls or hisses at birds or dogs

 

and meows to other cats and the other cats meow back but all of the meows are in a different tone and lenght so they must be talking about stuff

put a sweater over the top of my case because it's her favourite place because it's warm and falls asleep easily there

 

[Guest]

Cat is just annoyed.

[JoeCoke]

It's fine... Some cats don't like strangers/things out of the usual from their every day life. Then you have others that will roll over for anyone willing to pay attention to them. I've had some of each type. My childhood cat would walk up to workers with their loud equipment and get some pets. One of my current cats darts and hides at the sound/sight of anyone she doesn't know, even though she's super in your face and hungry for attention around people she knows.

[kokakolia]

Your cat is pissed off at strangers. 

[Syntaxvgm]

grrrrr