How do cats react to music?
We remain unsure about domestic cats’ reaction to music. More than 30 years ago, the great Dr. Desmond Morris said that domestic cats react idiosyncratically to the sound of music. What he was saying...
anxiety / Cat Behavior / cat emotions / cat personality / contentment / music / music / noise induced / stress
March 25, 2023
We remain unsure about domestic cats’ reaction to music. More than 30 years ago, the great Dr. Desmond Morris said that domestic cats react idiosyncratically to the sound of music. What he was saying...
October 19, 2022
This is the video of the original performance of Lithuanian composer, Mindaugas Piečaitis’ composition titled “CATcerto”. He used the YouTube sensation, Nora the Piano Cat’s improvised piano playing to compose the music for a...
June 5, 2021
Do cats like it when their human guardian sings? There’s a video on the newsflare.com website called: Connecticut cat has the sweetest reaction when its owner starts singing. This young woman has a really...
June 15, 2020
The question is asking whether it is beneficial to a cat when they are left alone all day to leave on a radio to produce some background sounds. Having spent 25 minutes researching this,...
February 26, 2020
I’ll focus on cats. Custom-made calming cat music played in veterinary clinics before and during their interaction with the veterinarian reduced stress in cats and made them more handleable. This is the conclusion of...
April 8, 2019
A video showing that animals react positively to music (normally!). We need to learn more.
November 5, 2018
Do cats respond to music? The question should be rephrased, ‘Do cats respond favourably to music?’. Some human music played loudly would certainly upset a cat if not a human as well. So the...
October 15, 2017
Personally, I have never seen any indication from my cats that they like music but perhaps this is because I play human music (rarely). I’ll admit to being sceptical. I don’t believe cats do...
September 21, 2017
This is a very touching short video of a ginger tabby, blind cat who likes piano music. The video shows it all so I won’t describe it in words. The cat’s name is Namik....
November 4, 2015
I was contacted by a promoter of perhaps the best cat music you can buy on the market. It has been composed “scientifically” by a talented cellist with a distinguished career, David Teie. He...
March 7, 2015
Music for cats? Whoever in the world would ever dream up such a unique idea and then go on to create special music in order to tickle a feline’s fancy? But to be more...
March 20, 2014
There are a lot of things about cats that we don’t understand. Jo Singer made that point in a recent article and I believe we have to accept and respected it, until and if...