lawful-evil-novelist:

lfthinker:

lawful-evil-novelist:

thiefniles:

I read the article and it’s bs anyways. The conclusion that cats don’t love us is not founded by the results of the experiment at all. They concluded that cats do not respond with affection to video recordings of their owners voice, but it’s very anthropocentric and caninecentric to conclude that since cats do not react in the same way a human or dog would, that they are not capable of loving people. The headline is a misleading shitty click bait title which doesn’t have anything to actually do with the contents of the article and the study

This experiment would run the same if you did it with a bird. You can’t say a bird doesn’t love its owner because it doesn’t react to its owner’s voice with affection responses. No scientist is going to deny that many species of bird bond with their handlers, but they don’t react to most stimuli the same way as dogs. Birds know that audio recording is of their owner, they’re very smart animals, but they don’t really care because they know that the little black box making the same sounds as their owner isn’t their owner, and therefore there is no affection to be felt.

This is the same with cats, cats are smart enough to know that whatever’s making the same noises as their owner is not their owner, so they don’t respond with affection because that’s not their owner, their owner is a weird giant hairless thing that can’t hunt to save its life, that immobile black box is not them.

I moved across the country over a year ago and only went back to CA for Christmas. When I got back to my mom’s, the family cat came right up to me, purred, and crashed with me in my old room for the night and most of the nights I was there. The same cat that will sometimes run from my mom when she’s away for a weekend came right up to me and acted as if I hadn’t been gone for over a year. Cats have emotional lives too.

Cats just don’t process voices like dogs do, that’s all, if anything some humans process voices like cats do, this is a very strong case of treating every domesticated animal like a dog.