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If You're Owned by a Cat, Scientists Want to Hear From You
gizmodo ^ | Ed Cara

Posted on 07/08/2022 9:17:06 AM PDT by BenLurkin

The work is being conducted by scientists from the Animal Welfare Epidemiology Lab at the University of California Davis. Last fall, the team recruited volunteers who owned exactly two cats to look at cat videos on the internet, as part of a project to study how well owners could read feline body language

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TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: catladies; catpeople; cats; qthread
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"The team’s larger goal is to help cats—especially kittens—and humans better form healthy relationships with one another."


1 posted on 07/08/2022 9:17:06 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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Not that difficult. You feed them, pat them and play with them when they want, and leave them alone the rest of the time. Now where’s my grant?


2 posted on 07/08/2022 9:20:09 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Exactly. Cats are the perfect pet.


3 posted on 07/08/2022 9:20:39 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Exactly. Cats are the perfect pet.

Funny, that’s what they say about humans...


4 posted on 07/08/2022 9:22:33 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: BenLurkin

All my x’s live in Texas.


5 posted on 07/08/2022 9:22:40 AM PDT by Track9 (You are far too inquisitive not to be seduced…)
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To: tet68

True!


6 posted on 07/08/2022 9:23:24 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

You forgot one — clean out their litter box daily.


7 posted on 07/08/2022 9:24:10 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: BenLurkin

Life is boring without cats in the house...


8 posted on 07/08/2022 9:24:11 AM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
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To: BenLurkin

No, a perfect pet would stay off the kitchen counters even when you’re not looking. Also, it would only claw what it’s intended to claw, and it wouldn’t walk across your head when it gets hungry or lonely during the night.


9 posted on 07/08/2022 9:24:16 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Dan in Wichita

Every other day for ours, and they can just deal with it.


10 posted on 07/08/2022 9:25:11 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: BenLurkin

Do cougars count?


11 posted on 07/08/2022 9:30:54 AM PDT by Bob434 (.)
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To: BenLurkin

Calling all crazy cat ladies..


12 posted on 07/08/2022 9:31:57 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: Democrat = party of treason

....yup....been married over 50 years and have always had a cat or two around the house...one year, as many as four..!
adorable companion animals....very predictable...

1)..Eat
2)..Sleep
3)..Poop
4)..Repeat process ........


13 posted on 07/08/2022 9:32:53 AM PDT by TokarevM57
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To: BenLurkin

The team’s larger goal is to keep grants and money flowing into the team.


14 posted on 07/08/2022 9:34:44 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Duct tape laid sticky side up solves all those problems quick and let them suffer a while before removing it.... has to imprint that those are no go zones.


15 posted on 07/08/2022 9:37:15 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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From the article: “In short: a well-socialized kitten becomes a well-adjusted adult, and we'd like to do whatever we can to ensure the creation of more well-socialized kittens.

Wish we could do this with Liberals!

16 posted on 07/08/2022 9:37:33 AM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives: Ban Gun Free Zones)
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Cats clean themselves by licking their fur with their tongues. When they do so, they leave a small amount of tongue protein on their fur that dries and is constantly shed throughout the house. After a period of time, everything in your house has a thin layer of cat tongue protein on it....everything!

A friend has four big dogs inside his house, he has a sign that says, "dog hair is a condiment" in this house. He's correct, I never eat there.(And, only went once)

BTW, when I know, I don't even go inside a cat owners house.

I have dogs but they live outside!!

17 posted on 07/08/2022 9:41:31 AM PDT by blam
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To: Starboard

🔝🔝🔝


18 posted on 07/08/2022 9:41:47 AM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: BenLurkin

I’m not owned by a cat, I’m owned by three.


19 posted on 07/08/2022 9:43:52 AM PDT by fwdude (Every time I see someone voluntarily masked in public, I know I'm looking at a vaccinated person.)
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To: Starboard

Getting paid to play with cats...nice work if you can get it!


20 posted on 07/08/2022 9:44:54 AM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress" )
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