I've heard that my whole life in the US. I think my dad taught it to me when I was really young, because he loves cats and our neighbors across the street had some outdoor cats.
replyGrowing up in the Midwest it was always kitty kitty kitty kitty KITTY with the last one said at the top of your lungs.
replyNo idea why it worked. It's terrifying.
Probably worked because the cats grew up with it too!
replyWell it seems everyone uses that! Thanks guys, I had no idea and this is so interesting to know. Now I wonder if someone has made some kind of study about it. I'll go looking.
replyWe do it in Italy too, afair (I'm a bit in doubt if we also do "tch tch tch")
replyNo, it's somewhat common here in Brazil too.
replyThat's a worldwide thing, as well as other stupid human noises ;)
replyTch tch tch
All of the US and some of Canada does pspspsps
replywait where in Canada do they don't do pspspsps?
reply(is there a francophone different one?)
It’s very common in the USA.
replyI think it has become common, but I never heard it until a few years ago. Now it's seemingly everywhere. When I was a kid, it was just "Here kitty kitty" or making a clicking noise with your tongue or something.
reply> making a clicking noise with your tongue or something
replyI still do that today, and it works better than pspspspsps. When I was young, if my cat was outside on the porch I could click my tongue and he'd come running from a half block away. What a good kitty he was.
Australia also uses pspspsps - at least my part of it and my family and friends.
reply(and for some Australians some of the time, "ps ps fuckin ps, ya cunting cat!" of course. ;- ) )
"Cunting"! Not just "cunt" but "cunting"! I learned so much from this thread! :D
replyWe also do it in Spain, I think it is the international cat calling code.
replyWe do it on the United Kingdom
replyWhere in the UK? I've lived in the UK, in the Southeast, for 21 years and I never heard anyone say "pspsps".
replyI mean I don't doubt you, I just thought Brits just say "here kitty kitty" because that's what I usually see in movies and TV shows and so on.
It's funny what you miss when you're not embedded in the culture of a place since birth...
It's common. But I tend to find people in the south east of England barely talk to one another. :)
replyI'm from America, and we do spspspsp.
replyCan confirm that non-greek Americans do this as well.
replyAnd Romanians.
replyMy German grandmother did it, too.
replyWe do it in America
replypspspsps is biological , it's common noise to get a cats attention (in many places) because it stimulates their prey drive.
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