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How Smart Is Your Cat? Here s How to Tell

How Smart Is Your Cat? Here’s How to Tell The cat brain Can your cat respond to his or her name? ( Do cats know their names?) Tell the difference between your voice and that of a stranger? Easily locate a toy hidden behind a solid object, say, a piece of furniture? If the answer to all these questions is yes, it’s a sign that your kitty is pretty smart, according to feline behaviorist Kristyn Vitale, PhD, a cat researcher at Oregon State University’s Human-Animal Interaction Lab. Today, Felis silvestris catus is one of the world’s most popular pets, with an estimated 600 million of them living in households worldwide. And we can see why, looking at these pictures of the cutest cat breeds. “I think the ability of cats to be very flexible in their behavior is one reason they’ve been so popular,” Vitale says. “They can do well in an apartment or on a farm.” Surprisingly, relatively little research to date has been devoted to cat cognition, cat intelligence, or th

10 Highly Subjective (But Totally Adorable) Reasons to Get a Pet

Image zoom Credit: Illustration by Valeria Petrone When the kids were little, I craved an extra body in my lap like I craved another hole in my head or more applesauce in my hair. We didn t have a pet and didn t want one. We couldn t deal with anyone else demanding to be fed or entertained or not bathed; we didn t feel like fretting about another creature; and we didn t want to hear more noise coming out of anybody, even if it was just the happy chuffing of another well-loved animal. Our cups were full. Full to overflowing. To be honest, what we needed was not a fuller cup but a mop.

Study Shows Cats Are Attached to Human Owners

People may commonly say that dog is man s best friend, oft overlooking our furry feline friends and the roles they play in our lives. (For more on that, read our piece I m a Cat Person and Here s What I ve Learned Over the Years.) But a 2019 study from researchers at Oregon State University s College of Agricultural Sciences published in the journal Current Biology, indicates that like children and dogs, cats forge a similar attachment to the humans raising them. “In both dogs and cats, attachment to humans may represent an adaptation of the offspring-caretaker bond,” said Kristyn Vitale, a researcher in the Human-Animal Interaction Lab in OSU’s College of Agricultural Sciences and the study s lead author, in a press release. “Attachment is a biologically relevant behavior. Our study indicates that when cats live in a state of dependency with a human, that attachment behavior is flexible and the majority of cats use humans as a source of comfort.”

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