What affects us affects cats
When given a choice of what they would prefer to do, domestic cats prefer to spend time with their human companions for social stimulation than be given food or engage in other activities. The study found that 50% of the cats tested preferred to interact with their humans in providing social stimulus even though …
A study was set up to see whether we can work out, in advance, whether an individual dog is cat friendly or not (without knowing the dog’s history). This would be useful information for the obvious reason that there are many multi-pet households in which dogs live with cats. Before a person adopts a …
This concerns a study on cats carried out by Japanese scientists on ‘incidental memory’. Incidental memory concerns the sort of information that is not deliberately stored in the brain; there is no deliberate attempt to memorise information. In brief, an event occurs and the memory is created and later automatically retrieved when perhaps making …
You have heard the message of Cat Wars, a new book by the ornithologist Peter Marra writing in conjunction with Chris Santella. Dr Marra is the director of the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Centre in Washington. He said: “There has never been a book like this that really brought together this science in a way …
Cat owners are less faithful to their spouse or partner (husband or wife) than dog owners. That’s what a survey by IllicitEncounters.com says. The full breakdown is below. So, for example, 25% of married people who signed up to looking for an extramarital affair own a cat and 10% own a dog. And so …
Perhaps it is not surprising that in a recent study scientists came to the conclusion that male cats were less sensitive to variations in the cries of kittens in isolation than female cats. We know that as a species male cats are not involved in raising their young. These are cats without “paternal care”. …
Facebook has been collecting information about us. We know that. They’ve refined the process. They developed computer software which they call “object recognition technology” which recognises photographs of cats and dogs. It added that information to other information which they have been collecting for a long time such as the number of likes and …
Have a look at the charts below. They are the result of a study about how Americans feel towards their companion animal, either a dog or a cat in this instance. I think the first image provides some remarkable statistics. More than half of the people surveyed said they would give up the Internet …
