Replies

If I were willing to accept the data...then my first reaction would be why? Logic would dictate that it is not merely having a close pet...which a dog would easily accomplish in this logic. The cat has to have some type of bacteria....that would be helping your body in some fashion. So...as the cat owner quietly sleeps at night...that dang cat is licking your face...transmitting lots of friendly bacteria into you...thus saving your life in the end. Logically...this is the only way that this would work.

I'll give you another possibility: people who choose to own cats are more likely to have laid-back personalities. If one's idea of happiness is coming home and petting a cat on the sofa, one is probably not leading a high-stress life.

There are all types of ways they could be leaving a substance whether it was a bacteria or something else. It could conceivably be found in glands located on their face. When you see a cat running its face on a corner of a wall or on the side of a box or a chair leg or even on your leg, it’s actually using glands to mark the object or you.

They wouldn’t necessarily be transmitting anything to you while you slept. It could be in the act of giving the cat a scratching along the cheeks as well as on the underside of the face.

If I were willing to accept the data...then my first reaction would be why? Logic would dictate that it is not merely having a close pet...which a dog would easily accomplish in this logic. The cat has to have some type of bacteria....that would be helping your body in some fashion. So...as the cat owner quietly sleeps at night...that dang cat is licking your face...transmitting lots of friendly bacteria into you...thus saving your life in the end. Logically...this is the only way that this would work.

Or it could also be that having a cat on your lap or chest while petting it could have a calming effect, through the warmth and vibration (as well as the sound) of the purring.

Mark

why? Logic would dictate that it is not merely having a close pet...which a dog would easily accomplish in this logic. The cat has to have some type of bacteria....that would be helping your body in some fashion. .... Logically...this is the only way that this would work.

Well, don't forget the self-selection factor. Maybe people who are more laid back prefer the introverted cat as a pet. Therefore they are more likely not to be high-stress, Type A individuals. After all, a cat is very independent, and this is threatening to high-control, stressed out individuals, who prefer to order a dog around and have slavish devotion from the more extroverted canine species. Cats, by contrast, make you the slave. You have to have serenity and self-confidence to be owned by a cat.

If I were willing to accept the data...then my first reaction would be why? Logic would dictate that it is not merely having a close pet...which a dog would easily accomplish in this logic. The cat has to have some type of bacteria....that would be helping your body in some fashion. So...as the cat owner quietly sleeps at night...that dang cat is licking your face...transmitting lots of friendly bacteria into you...thus saving your life in the end. Logically...this is the only way that this would work.

Not necessarily. First there is the purring which has been proven to increase bone density in cats and promote healing after a fall -something to do with the frequency. Then I read the book "Angel Cats" and there is a story in there of a lady whose cats would wake her up periodically during the night. She later had to get a pacemaker because her heart would stop beating. She thought the cats were waking her up at night when her heart stop beating and were performing pacemaker-like functions for her before her heart problem was diagnosed. Just sayin. Its possible.