Songs You Sing To Your Cat

"I'm going to feed you shrimp and plaice, gonna stuff it in your face"
(Max Romeo/The Prodigy)

"Do you like Pescado Blanco, and eating fish from the tray?"
(Rupert Holmes)

"You've got a big yawn for someone with such a small face"
(100 Gecs)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTunhRVyREU

I sing to my cat all the time. Like, I sing to him more than I talk to him. Mostly it's made up songs about 'sitting on the floor/waiting for some food', usually crooned, or some commentary on whether he *is* actually hairier than most cats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_SXJ18EkNw

To Security Chief Leon: Boz Scaggs Lido with Leon subbed in and "He shall be Le-on"

To Cherry, who is a shorthair but has the thickest double coat: "Super Floof! Super Floof! She's super floofy!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzcE4TJz8HM

My spouse has been singing to our cat Mars "Baby Mars, doo doo doodoo" ever since Baby Shark was a thing and he still comes running to it. Specifically just do that. He thinks he's getting treats.

Today I sang the Star Spangled Banner to my Guinea Pigs.

Today I sang the Star Spangled Banner to my Guinea Pigs.

Today I sang the Star Spangled Banner to my Guinea Pigs.

we fostered two cats starting in february so they've been with us a few months and we "upgraded" that i guess to fully adopting them. they are sweet but they are still pretty feral so we can't touch them yet. we collectively refer to them as "the boys" and occasionally call them each just "boy". well i want them to get more comfortable with me so i talk to them a lot even though i can't pet them yet, and for the past week i've started doing this ting where i start singing NUXX to them but changing the lyrics to be about what they're doing? "cat boy small boy chewing on cardboard boy in the kitchen boy he is a fuzzy boy" shit like that. they don't seem amused but i like it and it is actually making me like that song more again OK THE END

― TRANCED INTO RADIOACTIVE PUREE (Will M.), Tuesday, June 23, 2020 2:04 PM (two years ago)

last week i sang bob welch's 'sentimental lady' to polly the cat, who was unimpressed despite 'you are here and warm/but i could look away and you'd be gone' perfectly describing our relationship

When our cat tries to sneak outside I sing, "kitty's NOT coming out, I want the world to know..." etc in my best Diana Ross impersonation.

Ha, all of these are great. I particularly like the Will M one mookie reposted.

LG, I will accept songs you sing to your guinea pigs! All pets allowed, even though cats are obviously the best.

i have a version of a stone roses song that i like to sing to my dog

You're a doggy
You're a doggy
You're a doggy, I wanna, I wanna
I wanna be a dog
I wanna
I wanna, I wanna be a dog
I wanna, I wanna, I wanna be a dog
I wanna, I wanna, I gotta be a dog!

(there's also "i don't have to buy a bone / you've already gone one" but that section is a little ruff)

https://reductress.com/post/cat-furious-at-you-for-singing-made-up-song-about-her/

Twee of me but I've always assumed that cats like Tindersticks.

I'd like to hear recordings of all of these songs

You Are My Sunshine

I Love Music, by The O’Jays, like this:
I love [insert two syllable cat name here]
‘Cause he’s long and he’s groovy

Mister Lee, by The Bobbettes.

With “Lee” changed to cat’s initial

Young dude is named Faustino Sanchez Godoy. When I got home from work and saw him needing attention "wrong 'em boyo" popped into my head, so turned it into "the right Godoyo". He seemed nonplussed ofc

Mister Lee, by The Bobbettes.

― Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, December 18, 2022 5:41 PM (three months ago)

With “Lee” changed to cat’s initial

― Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, December 18, 2022 5:41 PM (three months ago)

hmmmm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT_Yvpt2Jjw

(tbf "he was a real cool cat / and wore a high top hat" would be a cute thing to sing to a cat who wasn't aware of the context)

A while back, friend who was a singer put me on to Samuel Barber's Hermit Songs, particularly "The Monk and His Cat," so I can often be heard singing: "Roger, grey Roger, how happy we are! / Alone together, gamer and cat"

I mostly sing in the voice of my cat, things like "He Gives Me Food" (to the tune of "She Gives Me Love" by The Godfathers.)

One of the girls mewls incredibly loudly when I make them dinner, and that has given rise to:

Shout, shout
Herring and trout
These are the fish that we care about
Come on!
I'm chomping my food
Come on!
(Tears For Fears)

Oh that's delightful, ty for sharing