A kind of low volume, breathy, “heh”. He only really does this if we are already close to the food. If he’s anywhere else, he doesn’t say anything, he just behaves differently to how he acts when he wants attention. Way more mischievous and annoying.
He wants attention frequently, but only in certain spots. For example, in my room he will only sit at the foot of my bed. He won’t sit on my desk or the chair next to me, nor will he move closer if I’m already in bed so I can pet him without moving. So what he will do if he comes in the room and I’m not in position, he goes to his spot, then just purrs or breathes really loudly. It’s super passive aggressive. He wants to let me know he is not pleased to be ignored, but not enough to move to me. Eventually he leaves if I don’t give him enough attention quickly enough. Idk why he can’t just sleep on my bed for a while if he’s just gonna go sleep somewhere else anyway.
Sometimes he walks around the house carrying stuffed animals in his mouth and makes weird, pathetic sounding noises. Hard to describe. But it doesn’t SEEM like he wants our attention or anything. So, idk.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sometimes he walks around the house carrying stuffed animals in his mouth and makes weird, pathetic sounding noises. Hard to describe. But it doesn’t SEEM like he wants our attention or anything. So, idk.

One of our cats does something similar, walks around the house with a toy in his mouth, making very loud, very pathetic sounding "mrrow" noises. Once he finds someone though he drops the toy, sits, and looks at them expectantly. I think he thinks he's hunting for us, so we reward him with pets when he brings us his "kill", and that usually makes him puff out his chest all proud and purr like crazy.

[–] darthelmet@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

The extra strange thing is he usually just leaves afterwards. He doesn't move into any spot where he's ok with getting pet.