6:59am November 29, 2013

➸ Cats recognise their owners' voices but never evolved to care, says study

sissyprinxe:

nothatsnotdialectical:

A new study from the University of Japan has confirmed this, showing that although pet cats are more than capable of recognizing their owner’s voice they choose to ignore them….

In the words of the paper’s authors, they effectively “domesticated themselves”.

“Historically speaking, cats, unlike dogs, have not been domesticated to obey humans’ orders. Rather, they seem to take the initiative in human–cat interaction.” This is in contrast to the history of dogs and humans, where the former has been bred over thousands of years to respond to orders and commands. Cats, it seems, never needed to learn….

The study concludes by observing that “the behavioural aspect of cats that cause their owners to become attached to them are still undetermined.”

cat supremacy ^n_n^

I am attached to Fey because we’ve Been Through Shit Together.  And because we love each other, which each of us communicates in a million different ways including a fierce protectiveness of each other.  And I didn’t know that love and attachment were only possible to be shown by coming whenever called and obeying commands?!

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