Kitty Cats are the Masters of Humans
sourced from LiveScience
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.”
My cat is the boss of our house.
I have two cats, and what I like most about them is how thoroughly disinterested they are in me — total indifference — until, that is, I’m *not* interested in having their company. That’s when they won’t leave me alone. They’ll jump on me, rub against my leg, scratch the chair I’m in. I think they’re genuises, even if the male cat seems dumb as a doornail.
I don’t care what they say, I rule my cats!