With what sound do you attract attention of a random cat in your country/language?

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1. For example, in standard German: Miez, miez, miez (engl. pronunciation meeds, meeds, meeds)

   My local dialect: muuz, muuz, muuz (moods, moods, moods)

   Mieze is basically the same as pussy English, without the vagina meaning. It can be used for girl or a woman, it’s very old fashioned and not very nice though and will probably lead to a slap in your face. A bit like calling a woman “chick”.

2. A kissy-click sound using my tongue. I’ve heard that people sometimes call cats with a pish-pish-pish sound, but I’ve always done the click.

3. Either pis pis pis or if pronounced faster it gets kinda pspspsps

4. Either sort of “pspspsps” or a clicking, tutting kind of sound that I don’t know how to write in letters.

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6. “či-či” (chih-chih or chih-chee), some people do a tongue click; my personal approach to cats is mutual ignorance

7. We make a sound like when you blow a quick kiss to someone several times and say “micio, micio, micio”. Micio means kitty.

8. Always ks ks ks/kis kis kis, I don’t think I’ve heard any other sounds being used here

9. “ci-ci-cic” or simply say “cica” which means kitten and sounds very similar.

10. kici kici [recording](https://voca.ro/1d8v6DLlNSzw)

11. A kiss sound or you say “minou minou minou” (Kitty kitty kitty)

12. Ci-ci-ci-ci, which is probably most similar in sound to chi-chi.

13. In Spain (at least the part where I live) usually is: bsbsbsbs or pspspsps

14. In the Netherlands we usually just do “psst, psst, psst”

15. This YouTube video is going to have about a million views.

16. A kissy sort of noise for British cats, but it’s a pspsps kind of thing for swedish cats in my experience.

    My cat was raised in a mixed household so as a Swedish British dual citizen cat so he mainly ignores everyone and everything unless there is food in it for him.

17. For me it starts with a Psh, but then goes something like wish, pshwshwshwshwsh

18. What I hear around here, is usually by saying muc muc muc (moots) saying few times and then repeat. I sometimes use sounds like saying letter k fast, something cats do when they see birds.

19. Mac mac mac mac na mac (c pronounced as ts; mac comes from mačka-cat). At least that’s how I do it.

20. Asturian: musarín, muxín, mus, musa, musu, mux, muxa, muxu, mis, mix, múcaru, músaru