Angela
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Study finds cats prefer spending time with humans to food. If someone dares to bring up that a 50 cat sample is too small for these conclusions it's obviously because they hate cats.
See:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/27/cats-nice-enjoy-spending-time-humans-study-finds/
"The researchers took 50 cats from shelters and peoples homes and deprived them of food, human contact, scent and toys for a few hours.They then introduced them to stimuli within these four categories to see what they chose."
It varies by cat, of course.
"The authors of the study wrote: "While it has been suggested that cat sociality exists on a continuum, perhaps skewed toward independency, we have found that 50% of cats tested preferred interaction with the social stimulus even though they had a direct choice between social interaction with a human and their other most preferred stimuli from the three other stimulus categories."
Most cats chose human socialisation over any of the other categories.
Cats grooming humans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc4Rfc7LEgw
If someone wonders why so few women are in the video: most women would never allow a cat to do this to their hair! I don't either, so my cat(s) try to groom my arms and hands and face. I don't allow that either. Just think where that tongue has been, people.
Cat greeting returning owner:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx14ohE6nHs
My male cat is like that: he's enormous, but he tries to jump into my arms from the floor, and sometimes falls, poor thing.
My cats follow me everywhere around the house, and I mean everywhere! They never heard of the concept of privacy. They try to follow me outdoors too. I swear, the male would let me put a leash on him and go for a walk.
See:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/27/cats-nice-enjoy-spending-time-humans-study-finds/
"The researchers took 50 cats from shelters and peoples homes and deprived them of food, human contact, scent and toys for a few hours.They then introduced them to stimuli within these four categories to see what they chose."
It varies by cat, of course.
"The authors of the study wrote: "While it has been suggested that cat sociality exists on a continuum, perhaps skewed toward independency, we have found that 50% of cats tested preferred interaction with the social stimulus even though they had a direct choice between social interaction with a human and their other most preferred stimuli from the three other stimulus categories."
Most cats chose human socialisation over any of the other categories.
Cats grooming humans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc4Rfc7LEgw
If someone wonders why so few women are in the video: most women would never allow a cat to do this to their hair! I don't either, so my cat(s) try to groom my arms and hands and face. I don't allow that either. Just think where that tongue has been, people.
Cat greeting returning owner:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx14ohE6nHs
My male cat is like that: he's enormous, but he tries to jump into my arms from the floor, and sometimes falls, poor thing.
My cats follow me everywhere around the house, and I mean everywhere! They never heard of the concept of privacy. They try to follow me outdoors too. I swear, the male would let me put a leash on him and go for a walk.
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