Talking cats are more common than you might think: many a proud cat owner will claim their kitty can speak, but Duncan ‘RJ’ Robert from Melbourne, Australia claims his cat Mischief can swear. Duncan, 34, and his wife Sandra, 32, have heard their 2-year-old cat say seven different words including no, mum, now, what, why, prick and f**k.
Mischief’s first word, at the tender age of six months was ‘mum’.
“He can’t say ‘dad’ yet, which is a bit of a prick. That’s how he got the word ‘prick’ I reckon, because I say it a lot,” a disappointed Duncan said.
The cat evidently lives up to his name as, according to Duncan, Mischief’s language becomes vulgar when he feels slighted.
“In the evening time, if you don’t drop whatever you’re doing and pay attention to him, he calls you ‘f**k prick,’” claims a proud Duncan. “If he really cracks the s**ts, he’ll p*ss in his drinking water just to let you know he’s really s***ty,” he added.
It’s not hard to see where Mischief’s foul mouth comes from.
Despite Duncan’s claims that Mischief regularly speaks, when reporters from the Northern Territory News visited, the cat was decidedly reticent. However, on a second trip, the visitors admitted hearing Mischief say ‘mum’ to Sandra, but no obscenities were heard. Duncan now wants to catch Mischief on film to prove his claims.
Happily, Mischief’s talking feline contemporaries have less colourful vocabularies, such as Zola from Carrollton, Texas. This talking cat’s ability to say ‘hello’ got her a spot on America’s NBC News. Zola’s owner has filmed her saying things like, ‘mom’ and ‘help me’ on her 24-hour webcam. If you don’t believe it, check out the footage and judge for yourself.
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