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I will answer the second question first. Feral cats have the physical ability and anatomy to meow just like domestic and stray cats. The point is that they don't normally meow because the meow vocalisation is a learned one between domestic cat and human caregiver. It is normally a demand for food or attention. The answer is not quite as clean as that because the meow sound is very variable. People should not think that every meow made by every cat is exactly the same. There is a great spectrum of meow sounds.  The word 'meow' is an onomatopoeia meaning that it reflects the sound . But as the meow sound varies a lot it does not reflect the meow sound sometimes! The meow sound has been learned by the domestic cat to make a demand on their human caregiver. Image: MikeB As to the first part of the title, as mentioned, this is a learned vocalisation by domestic cats over about 10,000 years of domestication. It is a sound developed between cat and human.  As feral cats nearly al

This is unusual. Perhaps very unusual. A user on the Reddit.com website has posted a video which you can see below of a domestic cat that they thought had a strange appearance.  They said that the cat was very big with strange ears. I immediately, identified the cat as an American Curl which is a fairly rare purebred cat and certainly very rare if he or she behaves as a stray cat which appears to be the case in this instance.  They're not normally large cat but standard-sized domestic cats with one exception to their regular appearance namely the ears that curl back due to a genetic mutation. Here is an example of an American Curl show cat photographed by Helmi Flick years ago. Photo: copyright Helmi Flick. Note: the video below may eventually stop working. Sorry but I can't control its existence. CLICK ON THE EXPAND ICON BOTTOM-RIGHT TO SEE THE VIDEO FULL SCREEN. What kind of cat is this? Stray cat moved into my back yard. Has huge paws/weird ears. by u/ReindeerNo1