they love to get fed too that’s why they don’t talk
When I was 11 I had my second cat my mom found to get to home called “Simba”. He was short lived for 1 year because we never sterilized him and left the home but he could talk with “meows”
One meow was to pet him
Two meows was to feed him
Three meows was to open the door
and he was doing it consistently