Tag: pets

• March 2, 2015

  Cats have friends too

  Many people think of cats as solitary creatures. But, did you know that free-roaming colony cats have complex social relationships? Cats engage in a variety of behaviors with one another such as allorubbing (one cat rubs against another), allogrooming (one cat grooms another), cuffing (one cat smacks another with its paw), sniffing, playing, laying together……

• February 12, 2015

  Do cats understand human emotions? Yes!

  Here I talk about an extremely interesting study that examined the ability of cats to detect human emotion. The study is entitled “Social referencing and cat–human communication” and was published in Animal Cognition in 2015. Merola and colleagues examined if cats have the ability to use social referencing– or the ability of an individual to evaluate another individuals’s emotional state and…

• June 4, 2014

  Backpack Cat

  This pair was spotted venturing out of the woods near the Willamette River in downtown Corvallis, Oregon. The cat was just chilling in his comfy backpack watching the scenery go by.