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Title: More Cat Stuff -- Cats Control their owners
Post by: alfsauve on July 13, 2009, 05:25:59 PM
On one of our favorite sub-topics,  CATS,  this just in

Cats Do Control Humans, Study Finds

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If you've ever wondered who's in control, you or your cat, a new study points to the obvious. It's your cat.

Household cats exercise this control with a certain type of urgent-sounding, high-pitched meow, according to the findings.

This meow is actually a purr mixed with a high-pitched cry. While people usually think of cat purring as a sign of happiness, some cats make this purr-cry sound when they want to be fed. The study showed that humans find these mixed calls annoying and difficult to ignore.

"The embedding of a cry within a call that we normally associate with contentment is quite a subtle means of eliciting a response," said Karen McComb of the University of Sussex. "Solicitation purring is probably more acceptable to humans than overt meowing, which is likely to get cats ejected from the bedroom."

They know us


http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090713/sc_livescience/catsdocontrolhumansstudyfinds (http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090713/sc_livescience/catsdocontrolhumansstudyfinds)


Maybe Douglas Adams got it all wrong.  It isn't the dolphins who are the aliens, but the cats.
"So long, and thanks for all the TUNA fish."

Title: Re: More Cat Stuff -- Cats Control their owners
Post by: MikeBjerum on July 13, 2009, 05:38:15 PM
Four hundred, sixty-seven days, and seven hundred, thirty-six posts on this forum, and you are just learning the power of the cat  ???

Have you not experienced the hairball express on here yet  ???

Someone go get a sacraficial newbie and let's have some fun in the name of reeducating alf  ;D
Title: Re: More Cat Stuff -- Cats Control their owners
Post by: alfsauve on July 13, 2009, 06:56:27 PM
Quote from: m58 on July 13, 2009, 05:38:15 PM
Someone go get a sacrificial newbie and let's have some fun in the name of reeducating alf  ;D

Well, you know Alf likes cats.....









with Catsup         ;D
Title: Re: More Cat Stuff -- Cats Control their owners
Post by: Hazcat on July 13, 2009, 07:42:12 PM
Dogs have owners......


Cats have staff!  ;)



;D
Title: Re: More Cat Stuff -- Cats Control their owners
Post by: twyacht on July 13, 2009, 08:15:28 PM
(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm182/twyacht/gunorgy.jpg)

Quote from: Hazcat on July 13, 2009, 07:42:12 PM
Dogs have owners......


Cats have staff!  ;)



;D

Yep. I have to clean up after them and put all their toys away...Constantly...
Title: Re: More Cat Stuff -- Cats Control their owners
Post by: ericire12 on July 13, 2009, 08:24:17 PM
Cats suck.... dogs rule.... close the thread!