Cats both adore and manipulate their ladies
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According to Discovery News if a dog is a man’s best friend, then a cat just might be a woman’s. A new study shows that the relationship between a cat and its owner is more intense than previously known, actually mirroring a human-only bond—particularly when the owner is female. Cats attach to humans, especially women, as social partners. Why? For food, yes, but also affection. Since women are more likely to interact with their feline companions, cats in return are more likely to approach female owners.
In many households, cats—and their interactions with their owners—are actually like “pre-verbal infants,” says one co-author of the study: “Both cat and human infant are, at least in part, in control of when and what they are fed.” Similarly, cats have a degree of control over when they are handled: Some cats have only to give their owners minor cues, like the move of a tail, that they want contact. Cats even return favors: If you interact with your cat when he or she wants you to, the cat seems to remember that later and will in turn put up with your desires.
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Mike,
case in point – youngest kid wanted to take Dulce to her boyfriends house.BF has a 15 year old pit bull, poor dog not in good health but still a big dog. I packed her a lunch (Dulce)and made sure I got calls letting me know Dulce didn’t escape. Both animals sniffed each other, then got along fine and ate out of the same bowl.Dog whined,wanted to give her a thorough sniffing but Dulce wasn’t up for it.
I have seen many instances where dogs and cats get along. Unfortunately, my dogs are accustomed to hunting the occasional feral cat that wanders onto the property and as a result they see cats as prey.
Count me with Holte and Mauigirl – Dulce owns me, and I talk to them like they were people – kind of like I do with teabaggers.
LOL oso! I hear that 🙂
I certainly see that with my aunt and her cat. They have a real “human” relationship; my aunt talks to Geoffrey, the cat, as if he were human, and truly believes he understands what she says. And she very well may be right! She also reads a lot into whatever he does, including things she sees as spiteful – and she may be right on that too.
Of course, I also talk to all my animals as if they are humans. I can’t help it!
My cat owns me that is for sure.