This is Spoony THE Cat. She is as sweet and loving as a pet can be. But for some reason, she doesn’t seem to want my wife to talk. She’ll jump up on the couch and put her paw up to my wife’s face if she spends any length of time talking. It doesn’t seem to bother her when I talk, or when our son’s deep voice booms out. Here’s Spoony catching a cat-nap in our son’s viola case—a purrrfect fit. Anf the voice of the viola doesn’t bother her.

Is there something about the pitch of the female voice? Women talking on the TV don’t seem to bother her. What do you think might motivate this strange behavior? What might we do to keep my wife’s speech from triggering this “please shut up” act of Spoony’s?