heart throbs

Me-ow-my-oh!

Me-usings and Me-emories

18 September 2013 -  How we cats manage to purr is, amazingly, still an open question.  The ambiguity is largely due to the fact that we don't have a unique anatomical feature that is clearly responsible for the sound.  The current thinking is that we alternately dilate and constrict the glottis, causing air vibrations during inhalation and exhalation at an astonishing rate of 20 to 30 per second.  Fortunately for us, we don't need to know how (or why) since it is hard-wired in from birth.  I am particularly fond of the effect achieved in the shower.

methodology of the meow-stro

 

 

 

Today's Catechism 

(for the self-taught)

Finding one's voice implies that

it was first taken away.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

opera of the day - Toscat, an early Puccini draft about an alley cat that nightly vocalizes atop the parapets