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Want to show your cat affection? Think twice before stroking it [truncated]
Daily Mail [UK] ^ | 7 October 2013 | Victoria Woollaston

Posted on 10/08/2013 10:23:25 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows

If you really love your cat, don’t stroke it.

Researchers say that the pets become stressed if they’re constantly petted.

Animal behaviour experts discovered that cats released hormones linked to anxiety when they were handled by humans.

In fact, the tests appeared to show that no cats enjoyed being stroked.

Some were prepared to tolerate it – but they were the individuals that showed the highest levels of distress.

The researchers concluded that genuine cat lovers should avoid constantly petting their feline friends to spare their feelings.

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The research also dispelled the popular belief that cats are solitary creatures who struggle to live happily together in groups.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: animalrights; animalrightsagenda; bs; kittyping; peta
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To: Slings and Arrows

Hm, I got two cats - and four dogs.

One cat gets pissed if you touch it. The other one loves to have it’s head and ears rubbed.


61 posted on 10/08/2013 11:16:10 AM PDT by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

What a pile of horse sh!t.


62 posted on 10/08/2013 11:18:28 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: fwdude

“Mine seeks out my hand and pets himself with it. Sometimes I have to leave the room to get away from him. “

You leave him alone with the hand?


63 posted on 10/08/2013 11:21:22 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Make today a great day. Insult a liberal.)
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To: thackney

Ha, looks just like my Sue, a Walker Hound I adopted. She’s a real sweetie-pie, very vocal though.


64 posted on 10/08/2013 11:22:37 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Slings and Arrows

65 posted on 10/08/2013 11:27:54 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Shall Not Be Infringed)
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To: All

In case it wasn’t clear, I side with the “bullsh*t” faction.


66 posted on 10/08/2013 11:28:30 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Gefn

Get the brooms.


67 posted on 10/08/2013 11:31:26 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Bottom line: Don’t stoke your pussy.


68 posted on 10/08/2013 11:32:56 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Slings and Arrows
Bottom line: Don’t stroke your pussy.
69 posted on 10/08/2013 11:34:08 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: diamond6

Are you trying to rub her belly?


70 posted on 10/08/2013 11:34:13 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: fwdude
This article is such BS.

Agree!

I've had cats around since I was 12, 70th birthday too soon, methinks they are missreading their data.

Regards,
GtG

71 posted on 10/08/2013 11:34:38 AM PDT by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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To: thackney

Explains a lot, really.


72 posted on 10/08/2013 11:36:29 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: fwdude

What? My cat has been hanging out at your house? Tell him to come home at once.


73 posted on 10/08/2013 11:40:13 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: RckyRaCoCo

Pretty on target. Especially the “hell yes” region.


74 posted on 10/08/2013 11:48:05 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: fwdude
Mine seeks out my hand and pets himself with it.

+1 "You don't get out of it that easy" seems to be the message.

75 posted on 10/08/2013 11:50:50 AM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Slings and Arrows

So when they crawl in your lap purring when you pet them, and shut their eyes and throw their heads back, it’s some sort of strange deceptive reaction?

Mine used to wait by the door, throw her paws around my neck and hold me when I came home from work.

Now a lot of cats don’t like having their bellies rubbed, would rather have their cheeks or necks stroked. But the rest - garbage.


76 posted on 10/08/2013 11:51:14 AM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: stylecouncilor

ping


77 posted on 10/08/2013 12:07:19 PM PDT by windcliff
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To: RckyRaCoCo

That chart is pretty close for a lot of cats and especially for my current two.


78 posted on 10/08/2013 12:19:41 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: RckyRaCoCo
I love that picture... but it needs to be complete with the doggie graphic that goes with it...


79 posted on 10/08/2013 12:31:55 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: fwdude

I have one who does that as well.


80 posted on 10/08/2013 12:34:13 PM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (My sweet talk is also savory and creamy.)
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