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Cats Do Control Humans, Study Finds
LiveScience ^ | 13 July 2009 | LiveScience

Posted on 07/13/2009 11:45:09 AM PDT by dan_s

If you've ever wondered who's in control, you or your cat, a new study points to the obvious. It's your cat.

Household cats exercise this control with a certain type of urgent-sounding, high-pitched meow, according to the findings.

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: cats; psychology
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1 posted on 07/13/2009 11:45:09 AM PDT by dan_s
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To: dan_s

I welcome our new overlords.


2 posted on 07/13/2009 11:46:12 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I don't believe anything anyone says about anything anymore.)
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To: dan_s

We, who are owned by cats, already knew this. :D


3 posted on 07/13/2009 11:46:48 AM PDT by iceskater (Michelle Obama to America - "Let them wear Keds!")
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To: dan_s

I’d rather answer to them than Obama.


4 posted on 07/13/2009 11:47:33 AM PDT by Islaminaction
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To: Slings and Arrows

Pinging you.


5 posted on 07/13/2009 11:48:59 AM PDT by iceskater (Michelle Obama to America - "Let them wear Keds!")
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To: dan_s

Mrs. Lurkin will continue to deny this — and continue to do their bidding.


6 posted on 07/13/2009 11:49:39 AM PDT by BenLurkin ("A new Dark Ages made all the more terrible and prolonged by the sinister powers of science.")
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To: dan_s

3,000 years ago the Egyptians worshiped cats as gods.

Cats have never forgotten!


7 posted on 07/13/2009 11:49:55 AM PDT by the_Watchman
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To: LucyT; Yaelle; Slings and Arrows; All

Ping!!!


8 posted on 07/13/2009 11:55:40 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: dan_s
Household cats exercise this control with a certain type of urgent-sounding, high-pitched meow, according to the findings.

It may not be the urget- sounding high-pitched meow so much, but what follows if you ignore it...

9 posted on 07/13/2009 11:55:54 AM PDT by LRS (Just contracts; just laws; just a constitution...)
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To: ClearCase_guy

My cat definitely controls me. She wants to go “night night” as soon as she comes in the house for the night. If I try to watch TV in the bed, she gets all kind of crazy. I have found that it’s better just to watch TV down in the family room and only go upstairs to sleep. The other thing the cat insists on is for me to face her when I settle in to go to sleep. If I try sleeping on my back or on my side facing away from her, she will start walking on me until I turn to face her. If she weren’t otherwise so darned cute . . . !


10 posted on 07/13/2009 12:00:07 PM PDT by piperpilot
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To: dan_s

My cat has me running around from the minute I get home to the time i go to sleep...hard taskmaster...


11 posted on 07/13/2009 12:00:54 PM PDT by NMEwithin
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To: LRS

What follows is my foot going towards a particularly annoying cat.


12 posted on 07/13/2009 12:04:53 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is the belief that most people are better off if everyone was equally poor and miserable.)
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To: the_Watchman
3,000 years ago the Egyptians worshiped cats as gods.

A serious demotion from their present status.

13 posted on 07/13/2009 12:06:41 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (AGWT is very robust with respect to data. All observations confirm it at the 100% confidence level.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
What follows is my foot going towards a particularly annoying cat.

Just as the cat intended, you slave.

14 posted on 07/13/2009 12:07:57 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (AGWT is very robust with respect to data. All observations confirm it at the 100% confidence level.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

LOL!


15 posted on 07/13/2009 12:15:23 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is the belief that most people are better off if everyone was equally poor and miserable.)
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To: iceskater

“We, who are owned by cats, already knew this. :D”

I know. I am only around to feed them and pay the bills.

What a squawk when they tire of their boneless boiled chicken thighs, ground raw beef (top of the line quality), StarKist tuna, Whiskas Choice Cuts, cans of Fancy Feast, Science Diet dried food, cans of Friskies, etc.

Do you think they are taking advantage me?


16 posted on 07/13/2009 12:15:34 PM PDT by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: iceskater
We, who are owned by cats, already knew this. :D

We refer to our male cat as "the sultan". The cats sleep in a crate at night - or they tear up the house. If I put them in, they both come running and get right in. If my husband tries to put them in, the female runs willingly. The male will walk over to me, plop down and wait for me to pick him up and carry him to the crate. Then he will get in. LOL

17 posted on 07/13/2009 12:16:24 PM PDT by ninergold3 ("Has it ever occurred to you that nothing occurs to God?" -Mark Lowry)
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To: dan_s

OMG yet another genius university study! /rolls eyes


18 posted on 07/13/2009 12:16:37 PM PDT by visualops (portraits.artlife.us or visit my freeper page)
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To: dan_s

Another Captain Obvious study.


19 posted on 07/13/2009 12:17:06 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: dan_s

All they had to do is ask me..(owned by 3 kitties.)


20 posted on 07/13/2009 12:17:28 PM PDT by MEG33 (God Bless Our Military Men And Women)
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