Your Cat’s Behavior and You: A Study

No, the real story is that the owner's behavior is a reflection of the cat's personality. Cat's already rule the world.

True, cats are more independent, unless it's feeding time.

Copying the owner's behavior and moods might apply more to dogs, which are really more attuned to humans.

Cats are pretty good, but I prefer squirrels...

How quaint.

It is interesting (troubling, expected, not surprising) that cat owners, with their own load of psychological baggage, would personify their cats as anything other than like them. In other words, with the same load of characteristics. How else would they characterize them?

The actual publication was tedious and difficult to follow so the explanation of the study given here is accepted at face value.

I'm not a cat person and when I had dogs I just enjoyed their antics and realized that each one was unique.

The people I know with two cats have two very different cat's...

Of course those people suffer from multiple personality disorder.

I'll bet there are a lot named

I suspect if people believe this, there is serious issues with human kind. A cat is independent, the most of all pets. Far smarter than humans as they can falsely wow you to feed them, preen them, debug them and if one of these is lacking, it soon finds a new gullible owner to work for them.

Thank goodness Plos One only 'thought' it is a reflection of its owner personality.

I do like cats.....especially with sweet and sour sauce.

They have a place, which is outside, doing their function of mouser/ratter. Not as mollycoddled, spoiled, substituted kids dressed in stupid outfits.

I agree!

I once had two cats,both Calico,that followed me every time i went hunting squirrels.

They even would retrieve the squirrels and lay them at my feet.

I did not train them, they just picked it up on their own.

They patiently waited for me to clean the squirrels and pounced on the entrails and hide.

These were stray kittens that just appeared in the edge of the woods one morning.

I fed them and the result is well known.

They never spent a day inside,and knew how to hunt for themselves.

They brought many snakes and rats and rabbits to my doorstep,and would not eat them unless I handed it to them.

Must be hard wired instinct in the feline family.

May people do not believe that a cat will retrieve,but it does not alter the facts.

They only retrieve the squirrels because they had trained you to hunt for them and to haul out the warm juicy bits.

'These were stray kittens that just appeared in the edge of the woods one morning" This was collusion and entrapment. All planned by CAT HQ.

Cats are definitely retrievers. This little guy was brought home to me on Labor Day weekend (Sept. 2018) by one of my female cats. He was totally unharmed but spooked. She probably found him after falling out of the nest or perhaps exploring too far from "home". She was carrying him just like a kitten. Dropped him right at my feet in the driveway.

I fed him human infant formula for the first week while I waited for the squirrel formula to be delivered. He ate from a syringe quite well for about 8 weeks when he started to prefer solid foods like nuts, fruits, and some cheese. He loves avocado.

The cats really enjoy him in the household. They love to chase him around and he enjoys the chase. He will jump down off my shoulder right in front of one of the cats to goad them into a chase. After a couple of laps around the house, he returns to my shoulder. He is very quick and can easily out maneuver the cats with fast direction changes and quick leaps.

We kept him in a cage most of the time except under close supervision. He would use a small tray with cat litter, that made it easy to keep his cage clean and fresh. After about 12 weeks or so, it became apparent he was not happy in the cage so I would let him out in the mornings and would go off and do squirrel things all day, coming by occasionally for some pecans or walnuts. In the evenings, he would come to me and I would take him inside where he would climb back in his cage and curl up in his cardboard box bed.

He gets a varied diet with pecans, walnuts, gerbil food, and some mixed bird seed plus all the acorns and other stuff to eat outside. We are surrounded by oak trees and tulip poplars. After a while he stopped coming in the evenings to his cage in the house, preferring to sleep out somewhere in the trees. On some particularly cold or nasty weather evenings, he would show up for a ride into the house. Even squirrels are no dummies.

In the evening, after a nice dinner snack, he likes to climb in my shirt and roll over on his back like in a hammock and take a nap. He is friendly towards other people who he is familiar with.

When he was younger, he traveled with us to Texas in Oct 2018. He loved the sunroom at my daughter's house in Midland and the cat tree she has there. At that point, he was still bonded, so he wouldn't stray far, even when I took him outside. In November, he spent a week at our friends house in Virginia, living outside with his cage on the porch where he would come for some goodies when he wasn't foraging on the black walnuts. By this time, he definitely wanted to assert his independence.

At this point, he rarely comes in for the evening, but during the day, he will come to the window to come in and get some walnuts or pecans. And fuss with the cats that come to watch him come in through the window.

Not sure how much longer he will hang around as we will be coming up on a mating season, but that's O.K. He is free to do as he pleases, as it should be.

Pity we as humans are only capable of demanding rather than being capable of sharing. Just as a side note, the cats here have hunted the red squirrels, so red squirrels are like chickens teeth, however, I have a proper black squirrel, that pops down for food.

The black squirrels do look cool, mainly because they tend to be a relatively rare genetic mutation.

I read recently that all squirrels were black when the forests were very thick. This made them hard to see. When we began to deforest our area, the squirrels began to change to colors other than black.

As I sat there,eating almonds and reading a book titled "You are what you eat",I began to wonder....

You are loosing it! Confirmation: You are NOT an almond!

I read last week about the dangers of drinking and smoking.

I have given up reading!

"I never drink water because of all the things that fish do in it."WC Fields

"Work is the bane of the drinking man."WC Fields

I don't drink any more.

I don't drink any less either.

I have co-existed with several cats (you don't "own" a cat). Each has had a distinct personality. Of the two which share my space now (Buster and Snowflake), one is as timid as a mouse, the other greets passersby at the end of the sidewalk. Unclear how this fits with the researchers' hypothesis. A general observation: Cats are smart enough to do all those "dog" tricks. They just can't be bothered.

I once heard that dogs think "he feeds me, houses me, and takes care of me, he must be God." Whereas cats think "he feeds me, houses me, and takes care of me, I must be God." Seems pretty accurate.

Cats were once considered deities;they have never forgotten it.

Dogs have friends,cats have staff.

Ever wake a cat from a dead sleep by using a vacuum cleaner to suck up its tail?

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