Love for humans activates the brain more intensely than love for companion animals

Parental love is the most intense and more intense that one's love for a pet

A recently published study “Six types of loves differentially recruit reward and social cognition brain areas” explores how different types of love activate different parts of the brain. Researchers found that various forms of love, such as romantic love, love for friends, love for pets and love for family, involve different brain regions. These …

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How do you become a cat person?

How do you become a ‘cat person'.

To put the question another way: “How does one become a cat lover”. I’ll try and answer the question. The thoughts of others are always welcome. Nature/Nuture Fundamentally, you become a cat person partly because you inherited a love of cats or probably a love of animals generally and partly because of your life …

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Human-companion animal partnerships substituting conventional relationships

Woman and kitten

There is an overlap between parents caring for their baby/infant and humans caring for their cats and dogs. The infographic below summarises some of these overlapping aspects of the relationship. There is a trend, too, in developed countries to adopt a pet over having a baby! Pope Francis, the current Pope, doesn’t like it …

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When You Know Your Cat Trusts You Completely

Cat demonstrating trust in human

When you know that your new cat trusts you completely you get a little bit of a frisson passing through your body. If there one aspect of the cat/human relationship which can stand out it is the moment when your cat tells you through body language and vocalisation that he/she trusts you completely. This …

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