Posted on 04/07/2019 6:54:04 AM PDT by BenLurkin
If you have a cat, you might think of yourself as your feline's parent. After all, you feed your cat, you snuggle him, and you probably even talk to him.
Your cat, however, sees things a bit differently.
According to Dr. John Bradshaw, your feline friend likely thinks of you not as a parent, but as "a larger, non-hostile cat."
Bradshaw, a biologist at the England's University of Bristol, has studied cat behavior for 30 years, and he's constantly finding new insights into the ways cats interact with humans. For starters, it's always on their terms.
He weighed in on the latest research, which focuses on how a cat responds to its name. Researchers led by Atsuko Saito, a cognitive biologist at Sophia University in Tokyo, found evidence they can distinguish their names from similar sounding words, but their response is subtle.
The researchers visited several places, from households to a cat cafe, to judge the cats' responses. In all scenarios, the cats responded to their own name more overtly than they did to random nouns or other cat names, but by overtly, we mean they twitched their heads, ears or tails.
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Cats certainly do not react to us as if we are other cats. The way they react to other cats is extremely different to how they react to humans.
Read the article. The whole thing is based on observation of cats in multiple scenarios. Pretty interesting.
minor correction.... cats don’t think we are cats of any variety whatsoever
the article author flatters himself....
seriously.
cats KNOW we are a very, Very INFERIOR species....
(barely worth keeping around at all....except that:
(1) we know how to open their tuna tins, and
(2) we don’t taste good anyways
I do not have a cat. Most of the cats in area are mountain lions and bobcats. They see me as food.
Duh!
When you die they will think of you as dinner.
When I sing, and mercifully it is rarely, my cats - and everybody else - think the apocalypse is at hand, and the howling begins.
*Kittie Ping*
Same here. When I practice it’s no big deal to the critters, but when a sing and play the critters look at me like “OMG, that sounds like it must hurt - a lot!”
LoL
If that’s all they got, who is it hurting?
Not everyone is as blessed as many of us are with a big family
LOL
I’ve never feel more like a used trump than when i rub my cat’s belly for 20 minutes and then he gets up and leaves without even looking back at me.
i’m gonna start a #metoo movement :)
Cats don’t really meow to each other. They meow to humans. So apparently, a meow is cat for “Come and serve me, slave”.
:-)
LOL!
My cat thinks I am Mon. When I come home from work, he runs to greet me, likes to cuddle with me, talks to me, kneeds my side when he wants food, and I’m the only one in the house he doesn’t sneak attack. He also brings me his kills.
We bonded when he was just a tiny baby. Over the weekend, his whole family was adopted, and he was mewling for his mom. I picked him up, put him on my chest, and pretended to lick his fur. Within seconds, he settled down and started purring. Slept on my chest the whole night. I’ve been mom ever since.
He fits in perfectly with my husband, kids, and dog.
Finally, a cat study with teeth.
I have a cat who hates it when I sing. She yowls at me, stares at me, lashes her tail... If I sing and walk she follows me, howling angrily... it’s pretty funny. Sometimes I sing and run, and she chases me, and we get pretty giddy.
A #meowtoo movement?
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