do cats voices change at adolescence?

My Molly is about 8 or 9 months old. She's always had a high-pitched squeaky meow.

Today, for the very first time, she sounds like the feline equivalent of a truck driver. It's a deep, LOUD meow.

Does she have a sore throat, or is this her voice forever now?

whinny and as they grow and get older their voice gets deeper. Who knows, this could be her voice from now on! Other cats will probably have more respect for her now or fear her b/c she sounds tough now!!! :)

Toss LynneSin a bat and maybe you can pry an honest opinion out of her.

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One of my cats has them and gets hoarse. Depends on pollen and humidity. I have him on some birth control pills (really) to control the allergies--vet prescribed, of course.

she's "fixed" (although it seems more like "broken" to me).

It's very odd. I'll miss her old voice!

That's sounding like the heat meow, and even without the ovaries and uterus, her brain is still going to cue.

Not being a vet, just having a good idea for neurochemistry, that seems likely to me.

And with my cats, they have very variable meows. Everything from peeps and whispers to ear splitting demands. If there have been feline house changes, that can cause different communication, too. When we lost one of ours in April, she was the chatty cat. Now, our previously quiet and calm siamese has taken over that role as house information officer.

(Not fun at 3 am....)

Politicat

my cat would open her mouth and nothing would come out when she was young. now, she's got this fairly loud voice...

i asked my cat fanatic friend about it and she said that cats naturally don't communicate verbally, but as they grow older they learn that that is the way their human companions communicate with one another and so they start to do the same.

i have no idea if there is any truth to this, but it is an interesting thesis, none-the-less.

my now-deceased girl, Polly, used to have the silent "ack" as we called it. Cute as hell.

I read, though, that they actually DO make a sound there - it's just above our range of hearing. Evidently other cats can hear it.

I've had cats that talked non-stop from kittenhood and others that almost never make a peep. Go figure...

that's right, now that i think about it. she said they don't communicate with each other audibly to the human ear.

i also read somewhere that cats have many very distinct meow sounds that they use for various emotions. i know mine seems to.

she makes funny squeaky noises

The huskier tone may not be a different voice so much as a different subject, or request.

My current cat has a husky, kind of conversational flirty voice, and a much higher one for I'm starving to death do you never intend to feed me?

and I know that sounds dumb, but there it is. :D Anyway Spot sounds the same at age 4 as he did at 6 months, just a regular meow thing, but a friend of mine has a kitty with the absolutely weirdist purr you could imagine - it sounds like an expert bassoon player doing musical scales.
Damndest thing I've ever heard. ;-)

I'm always interested in watching my friends turn into absolute fanatics over an animal for the first time.

I used to tell one friend that my dog was "mad" at me--she thought it was funny that I thought so and really didn't believe me; but then, she got a dog that she was crazy about and started noticing that it actually did have moods, a personality, and preferences/dislikes.

Cats are the same. One of my cats is the sweetest, most laid back cats I've ever known--he's almost like the Jesus or Buddha of cats. My other cat is devious, self-centered, self-serving, and spiteful--her ego knows no bounds.

Oh, and they both have a wide range of meows.