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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." 
 
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posted on 
07/08/2022 9:17:06 AM PDT
by 
BenLurkin
 
To: BenLurkin
    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?
 
To: HartleyMBaldwin
    Exactly. Cats are the perfect pet.
 
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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.)
 
To: BenLurkin
    Exactly. Cats are the perfect pet.
Funny, that’s what they say about humans...
 
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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.)
 
To: BenLurkin
    All my x’s live in Texas.
 
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posted on 
07/08/2022 9:22:40 AM PDT
by 
Track9
(You are far too inquisitive not to be seduced…)
 
To: tet68
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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.)
 
To: HartleyMBaldwin
    You forgot one — clean out their litter box daily.
 
To: BenLurkin
    Life is boring without cats in the house...
 
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.
 
To: Dan in Wichita
    Every other day for ours, and they can just deal with it.
 
To: BenLurkin
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posted on 
07/08/2022 9:30:54 AM PDT
by 
Bob434
(.)
 
To: BenLurkin
    Calling all crazy cat ladies..
 
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 ........
 
To: BenLurkin
    The team’s larger goal is to keep grants and money flowing into the team.
 
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.
 
To: BenLurkin
    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!
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posted on 
07/08/2022 9:37:33 AM PDT
by 
immadashell
(Save Innocent Lives:  Ban Gun Free Zones)
 
To: BenLurkin
    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!!
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posted on 
07/08/2022 9:41:31 AM PDT
by 
blam
 
To: Starboard
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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/)
 
To: BenLurkin
    I’m not owned by a cat, I’m owned by three.
 
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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.)
 
To: Starboard
    Getting paid to play with cats...nice work if you can get it!
 
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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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