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Tuesday, 4 June 2019
quote [ In a study published this month in Applied Animal Behaviour Science, the behavioral ecologist at the University of Derby in the United Kingdom placed small cameras on 16 cats and followed them for up to 4 years as they prowled their neighborhoods. Though the study—co-authored by Samantha Watson, an animal behaviorist at Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom—was mostly done to gauge the accuracy of the technology, the duo has already made some surprising findings. ]
KittyCamTV, the new 24-hour reality show coming to Facebook Watch in 2020. (probably)
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Menchi said @ 4:45pm GMT on 4th Jun
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Set them up with some Twitch streams, and there's their research funding for the next 5 years.
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arrowhen said @ 5:02pm GMT on 4th Jun
I would watch the hell out of that.
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Headlessfriar said @ 7:32pm GMT on 4th Jun
"Twitch eats a vole" would be the most popular thing for a while.
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mechanical contrivance said @ 7:39pm GMT on 4th Jun
If the viewers could control the cat through the chat, that would be something.
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captainstubing said @ 10:54am GMT on 4th Jun
[Score:2 Funsightful]
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snowfox said @ 6:08pm GMT on 4th Jun
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"When they were in their homes, the cats spent a lot of time following their humans around. They liked to be in the same room. A lot of my students were surprised at how attached cats were to people."
I'm amazed these stereotypes survive despite cats now being more common than dogs. People still have this idea that cats ignore you and don't care about you. It's more that they avoid strangers, which a dog may not. If you are the cat's caregiver, they will basically never leave you alone. People say their cats follow them around like a dog, but really, their cats follow them around like a cat. At least we're hitting a point where saying, "I hate cats," makes you sound like as much of a monster as saying, "I hate dogs," does. |
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arrowhen said @ 8:07pm GMT on 4th Jun
I think what they don't understand is that "never leaving you alone" doesn't always mean "slobbering all over your face." Lounging on the other side of the room and not looking at you counts as socializing for a cat and the people who don't get that are the ones who don't understand the value of companionable silence.
Saying "I hate cats" makes you sound like as much of a monster as saying "why are you so quiet?" or "you should smile more" does. |
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snowfox said @ 12:09am GMT on 5th Jun
You know who had a dog and not a cat?
Hitler. |
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daffyduck said @ 1:31pm GMT on 5th Jun
The three cats that live at my flat like hanging out with me on the sofa, the place I'm mostly at since the laptop is right there/here. Usually I've got two cats snuggling to my sides with the third one either settling next to one of the other cats or right behind my head on the back rest. I don't how my ex-gfs cats hanged around with her when I wasn't around, but one time she stood there watching me and my cats take up our positions: "Is.. is this how your cats spend time with you?" "...yeah."
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