What affects us affects cats
Before answering the question, we have to define the word ‘deceive’. Definition: to deliberately cause (someone) to believe something that is not true, especially for personal gain. I have never seen any cat behaviourists try to work out if domestic cats try to deceive each other. The activity of deception as carried out by …
Yawning is contagious between cats, often when a kitten follows their mother but not, according to research, from human to cat companion. In contrast, researchers found that a dog can “catch” a yawn from their owner perhaps reflecting the different relationship between dog and human as the dog considers the human family their pack …
You won’t find much in the reference books or on the Internet about why domestic cats yawn but I think they essentially yawn for the same reasons that humans yawn with some modifications. I think we have to rely on our own observations as to when domestic cats yawn. And we can rely on …
