title: How to Speak Cat: The Essential Primer of Cat Language
author:  Alexandra Sellers 
description: Dr. Gary Gruber, Ph. D. is recognized nationally as the leading expert on the SAT, test-taking methods, and critical thinking skills. His 26 books on test taking and critical thinking skills have sold over five million copies.
zlib_text: **THE BOOK OF NIGHT**
  
   **WITH MOON**
  
   **Diane Duane**
  
   **CONTENTS**
  
   _A Note on Feline Linguistics_
  
   _Chapter One_
  
   _Chapter Two_
  
   _Chapter Three_
  
   _Chapter Four_
  
   _Chapter Five_
  
   _Chapter Six_
  
   _Chapter Seven_
  
   _Chapter Eight_
  
   _Chapter Nine_
  
   _Chapter Ten_
  
   _Chapter Eleven_
  
   _Chapter Twelve_
  
   _Chapter Thirteen_
  
   _Chapter Fourteen_
  
   _Afterword_
  
   _A Very Partial Ailurin Glossary_
  
   _ABOUT THE AUTHOR_
  
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  For Keith De Candido
  
   **A Note on Feline Linguistics**
  
  Ailurin is not a spoken language, or not simply spoken. Like all the human
  languages, it has a physical component, the cat version of “body language,”
  and a surprising amount of information is passed through the physical
  component before a need for vocalized words arises.
  
  Even people who haven’t studied cats closely will recognize certain “words” in
  Ailurin: the rub against a friendly leg, the arched back and fluffed fur of a
  frightened cat, the crouch and stare of the hunter. All of these have strictly
  p