Music to a cat lover's ears

Well, this is (mostly) a music blog ... with an occasional cat picture or two ... but this piece titled "Cat Sounds and What They Mean" by Laura Moss, on the MNN (Mother Nature News) website, has a pretty good translation guide to some of the "meows, growls, chirrups and chatters" we hear around our house. Here's one:

And here's a video of a cat purring. Listen to that for half a minute, and it's as good as taking 50mg of Metoprolol for high blood pressure. Music to my ears:

If you have cats, or like cats, you can scope out the rest at http://www.mnn.com/family/pets/stories/cat-sounds-and-what-they-mean.