Monty, kiss. Good Monty!
Who says you can't train a cat?
Hi guys. Welcome back to English with Max.
In this video I'm going to teach you some cat-related vocabulary.
This is my cat Monty and he is going to help me throughout this video.
Okay, guys, so I have some treats in my hand so that Monty stays here.
Are you going to be a good model, Monty? - (Mum) So he doesn't run away.
So he doesn't run away, yeah.
And Mum's helping me film. Well, Mom is actually holding the camera. She is filming.
Okay, so these are Monty's whiskers. So the bits of... kind of like hair that come out here.
Those are whiskers. One whisker. Two whiskers. Sometimes we do find one
whisker on the ground, so sometimes you do say "one whisker". Okay, these are paws.
For animals you can say paws or legs. The paw is... The paw's normally the,
like, front part, right? Yeah, so... - (Mum) Like the fingers.
A bit like... They're a bit like the hand... The hand with the "fingers".
We don't say "hands" and "fingers" for animals,
just like we don't say "arms" for animals.
We say: "Mont has four legs."
Okay, you can have another one. There you go.
Sometimes we, by accident, say "Monty's arms", but you can't actually say that.
This is a collar. Collar. Monty has two bells on his collar so that we always know
where he is. He's actually... there you go, there you go...
He's an indoor cat. We keep him inside.
A lot of indoor cats don't have collars, but we want to know where he is,
because sometimes you hide, don't you? Yeah and it's hard to find you.
And sometimes he hides and then jumps out at us.
Now that is Monty's tail. Monty likes to
chase his tail. So that's when an animal is running around in circles.
Often it's because they're chasing their tail. This is Monty's fur. It's actually
more common to say "cat hair" than "cat fur", but you will hear both. Fur is the same
as hair, but we say it when an animal has lots of hair close together. Humans, for
example, don't have fur. At least, we don't... we don't say that. And if you have, you know,
bits of... like that... hair... bits of cat hair on your clothes, you wouldn't say "fur" either.
You would say "cat hair". When animals lose their hair, we say
they're shedding. To shed hair.
At the end of his paws he has claws. One claw. Two claws. They're the sharp, sort of
like nails at the end of his feet. And every now and then we have to cut them.
We have special scissors for... for cutting his claws. It doesn't hurt, though. It's just so...
It's just so they're not too sharp and he can't scratch us too much.
Another piece of vocabulary: That noise that he is making is called "purring".
The verb is to purr.
You're purring, aren't you, Monty?
Another sound that cats make is meowing - to miaow. So often if we're
imitating a cat, we sometimes say "meow meow".
Did I annoy you?
I don't want to annoy Monty because he can get a bit... a bit feisty sometimes.
Oh no, he's licking me. That's because I had food in my hand.
Oh yes, something else. Monty is a rescue cat.
We got Monty at the RSPCA which is the main organisation in Australia that
fights against cruelty towards animals, and where you often go if you want to
adopt a pet. So if you want to adopt a dog or a cat, most of the time. And you
already had a name, didn't you, Monty? Yeah, Monty was already Monty so we left it as that.
Yeah. You were four months old. Monty was four months old when we got him.
Is he about to bite?
"Now Monty's biting."
No, he's not gonna bite me because he thinks I still have food.
Now I'm going to show you some of Monty's things.
That there is his feeding tower.
Hello Monty.
The reason we put his food in a feeding tower is because otherwise
he sometimes eats too quickly and makes himself sick.
But this way he eats slowly. It also means he
has to work for it a little bit and he doesn't eat too much.
So this is cat food.
Some people call this dry cat food and some people call it kibble.
That there is Monty's water bowl.
You gonna have a drink?
That there is one of Monty's beds,
but obviously he just sleeps wherever he feels like. We're
actually in the laundry. That's the washing machine. We put Monty
in here at night so that he doesn't jump on us while we're sleeping or miaow at
our doors. Isn't that right, Monty? He doesn't care. Okay.
That is another one of Monty's beds and those are Monty's friends.
That's Baby Frank.
Over here we have the kitty litter. This is where Monty does his business.
Thanks very much for watching, guys. If you have any questions, just write them
in the comments, and also tell me what you think of cats and whether you're
more a cat person or a dog person. Bye guys!
I'm actually more a dog person, but Monty's technically Mum's cat, so yeah, I didn't
have much of a choice.
Okay, let's maybe start again, huh?
Shall we start again, Monty?
Do you want the last one, Monty? Here you go.
Is that it, do you think?