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Cats "Exploit" Humans By Purring
An anonymous reader notes a BBC report on research recently published in the journal Current Biology, indicating that cats manipulate humans by adding a baby-like cry to their purring. "Cat owners may have suspected as much, but it seems our feline friends have found a way to manipulate us humans. Researchers at the University of Sussex have discovered that cats use a 'soliciting purr' to overpower their owners and garner attention and food. Unlike regular purring, this sound incorporates a 'cry,' with a similar frequency to a human baby's. The team said cats have 'tapped into' a human bias — producing a sound that humans find very difficult to ignore."
I would love to hear a cat cry. Maybe I'm flushing it down wrong?
Cats: why do people love them so much?
They shit on my garden. They shit on the food I intend serving my family. Their buried shit, when covered in dirt, looks just like a dry lump of clay or a big stone - if I pick one up again, with my finger, by mistake...
The kill the birds in my garden. Little birds, big bird, young and old, they do not care. They kill for pleasure, not for food. They are evil.
They dug up the squash I had growing on an old compost heap. Why? Why not sleep somewhere else?
They put dirty footprint on my car. You wouldn't catch any other animal doing that.
I've heard that Lilies and its pollen can poisonous to cats. Maybe this'll keep them away... for good.
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People: why do people love them so much?
I really feel sad for you if the stuff going on in your life is really so insignificant that you start getting aggrevated about cats littering in your garden, killing the occasional bird and getting paw prints on your beloved car. You do realize that garden soil is full of dead bugs and excrements, composted plants, and that you will get your hands dirty when gardening anyway? That birds also get killed by hitting cars, trains or airplanes or simply by falling out of the nest, and that parking your car under the wrong tree also makes it dirty?
The moment you start getting sincerly bothered and aggrevated about trivialities like that, that you start hating cats for it, is the moment you should figure out something is missing in your life. You'd better not have any kids if you feel that way, they can be extremely annoying at times as well.