Nanobot said:You have to wonder what that UK guy's sample size was.
We started putting the kittehs downstairs and locking the door to the upstairs when then began bouncing on the bed at o-dark-hundred. Now they wake me up between 5:30 and 6:30 and want to go downstairs, have a food offering and then I shut the door. But by the time I wake up for the day, they really want me to come for them. Not, "I can go upstairs now" but "Mama mama mama!" and swirl around me.
Wayii said:
Nanobot said:You have to wonder what that UK guy's sample size was.
We started putting the kittehs downstairs and locking the door to the upstairs when then began bouncing on the bed at o-dark-hundred. Now they wake me up between 5:30 and 6:30 and want to go downstairs, have a food offering and then I shut the door. But by the time I wake up for the day, they really want me to come for them. Not, "I can go upstairs now" but "Mama mama mama!" and swirl around me.
Indeed. Reality is, they're discovering all sorts of animals can develop several sorts of mental illness from all sorts of incidents and that both mammals and birds are far more social and capable of their own sorts of affection than people are comfortable thinking about.
Domesticated cats are not the same as domesticated dogs, particularly in the way they demonstrate their needs, feelings and state of well being but they continuously prove that they bond with humans, each other and even other pets. I suspect that that particular team or scientist did not set up the study very well or/and that he really didn't know much about the behavior and psychology of domestic cats.
ladyfur said:drive carefully, terre. we are going to get more rain but for now it's just cold.
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