re: OT vets -- cat can't meow

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I have two cats, and neither of them can properly meow. One of them is just like you described. Her meow is either silent or raspy, and the other almost never meows unless she's in some sort of distress, and it comes out as a kitten's mew. Both are 7 1/2.

They're litter mates, and they were rescued from the side of the road at a very young age (just a couple of weeks) after their mother was run over, so we assume that they can't meow properly because their only interaction with cats has been with young kittens, until we adopted them at 10 weeks old.

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This describes my cat as well. She was found as a kitten under a rose bush. Been with me eight years now, and I rarely hear a peep from her.

Doesn't bother me a bit, either.