Full title: Want to show your cat affection? Think twice before stroking it: Our feline friends can become stressed when touched
Mrs Slocombe, you lived in vain.
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2 posted on
10/08/2013 10:24:35 AM PDT by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
So when they come around purring and rubbing against your leg and you pet them and they act as if they like it, it's all a lie?
3 posted on
10/08/2013 10:26:24 AM PDT by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
To: Slings and Arrows
5 posted on
10/08/2013 10:26:45 AM PDT by
fwdude
( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
To: Slings and Arrows
As an owner of multiple cats over a fifty-five year period, I feel qualified to determine that this is complete ‘bullsh*t’.
6 posted on
10/08/2013 10:27:28 AM PDT by
who knows what evil?
(G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
To: Slings and Arrows
I guess that's why both of our cats kick stuff off the desk to make room for themselves to curl up on my mouse hand.
Who knew they liked stress?
8 posted on
10/08/2013 10:30:30 AM PDT by
Slump Tester
(What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
To: Slings and Arrows; hummingbird
Animal behaviour experts discovered that cats released hormones linked to anxiety when they were handled by humans. I call bullsh!t on this.
My three cats chase me around the house bumping me and nudging until I scritch and stroke them. I have one cat, Rooster (my namesake), that constantly rubs his head against my mouse control hand until I give up at the computer and rub him.
Purrhaps my control group is to small for conclusions. But as someone who has worked in the service of our feline overlords for many years, I would suggest these "experts" know not of what they speak.
9 posted on
10/08/2013 10:30:49 AM PDT by
RoosterRedux
(The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing -- Socrates)
To: Slings and Arrows
Then why do they position themselves right under your hand and when you quit petting they nudge it.
11 posted on
10/08/2013 10:32:38 AM PDT by
tiki
To: Slings and Arrows
I can just imagine a couple of guys in lab coats chasing a cat around the lab to see whether it is stressed when stroked.
16 posted on
10/08/2013 10:33:49 AM PDT by
KarlInOhio
(Everyone get online for Obamacare on 10/1. Overload the system and crash it hard!)
To: Slings and Arrows
To: Slings and Arrows
My cat doesn’t just like to be petted, he likes his HIND END to be petted.
Although he is somewhat particular how and when it is done.
By my friggin’ face at daybreak seems to work best.
To: Slings and Arrows
All BS. This has to be written by a dog.
More than once, I've woken up with an arm hanging over the side of the bed with my catz doing the 'dead hand petting' thing with my unresponsive hand.
/johnny
To: Slings and Arrows
Think ten times before getting one.
22 posted on
10/08/2013 10:36:31 AM PDT by
The_Media_never_lie
(Actually, they lie when it suits them! The crooked MS media must be defeated any way it can be done!)
To: Slings and Arrows
Right. And dogs don't really like chasing sticks.
Thank God for all of the colleges and universities who employ such professors; otherwise, whatever would we do with all of our idiots? Other than send them to Congress, that is?
24 posted on
10/08/2013 10:36:50 AM PDT by
andy58-in-nh
(Cogito, ergo armatum sum.)
To: Slings and Arrows
Well, I make the pussy purr with the stroke of my hand
They know they gettin' it from me
They know just where to go when they need their lovin' man
They know I'm doin' it for free
25 posted on
10/08/2013 10:37:03 AM PDT by
dfwgator
To: Slings and Arrows
Mrs. Slocumbe is most likely upset about her beloved Tiddles. My kitteh loved to be scritched on the ears, neck, and tail.
I call schenegans.
26 posted on
10/08/2013 10:37:50 AM PDT by
Gefn
(More Cowbell)
To: Slings and Arrows
The silly things that “scientists” say. Cats know different.
27 posted on
10/08/2013 10:39:01 AM PDT by
gunsmithkat
(There is no such thing as Too Many Guns)
To: Slings and Arrows
Just ran this by my cat. She said “knock off the funny business and get over here and scratch my head.”
28 posted on
10/08/2013 10:41:01 AM PDT by
JPG
(Putin Does Obama.)
To: Slings and Arrows
" hormones linked to anxiety""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."
Yeah, all of which explains why stroking a cat's head and scratching its chin puts it into an "anxiety-ridden" coma.
32 posted on
10/08/2013 10:43:24 AM PDT by
CatherineofAragon
((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
To: Slings and Arrows
It isn’t about whether I want to show the cat affection. It’s whether the cat wants me to. In which case, I’d better.
To: Slings and Arrows
Animal behaviour experts discovered that cats released hormones linked to anxiety when they were handled by humans. My cats do not like to be picked up but will stalk me to get in to my lap when it suits their fancy.
They are very persistent at this and will try repeatedly to get in to my lap until I relent.
The female will after occupying my lap will nip my arm until I pet her or scratch her. When I particularly please her in my efforts she will then groom my arm.
Being petted is something a cat enjoys on their own terms IMO just like a human.
I think this is another Leftist PETA nutcase study.
35 posted on
10/08/2013 10:44:48 AM PDT by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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