My husband had a cat ('way back in the day, when we were first married) who had a special meow that never meant anything but, "I've got some half-dead thing in my mouth; let me iiiiinnnnn!"

No, Runt.
You cannot come in and let whatever-it-is lose in the house.
The birds were the most "fun".

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It is hard to convey five-dimensional ideas in a language evolved to scream defiance at the monkeys in the next tree. -- The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch, by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen