Do you like Cats?

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Kittens and socialization to prey...

In a pioneering set of experiments, Kuo (1930) raised kittens and rats together in the same cages. Kittens raised with rats never killed rats of the same strain when they grew up, although some would kill rats of a different appearance. The implication of Kuo's results was that kittens whose social companions during early life were rats formed social attachments to rats, inhibiting later predatory responses to them. However, when given the opportunity to form social attachments to other kittens as well as rats, other kittens were preferred. Kittens raised both with siblings and rats formed clear social attachments to their siblings. Nonetheless, these kittens did show a distinct tolerance of rats and a reduced predatory response towards them, although some eventually became rat-killers (Kuo, Z.Y., 'Further study on the behavior of the cat toward the rat', in Journal of Comparative Psychology, vol. 25, pp.1-8, 1938).

I like my cats ~ I have got five.

Cats are okay but they are not as loyal as dogs or suicidal super badgers.

I hate cats.

My dad hates them.

You don't know my cat. He's extremely loyal and attached to me. I think he thinks I'm some kind of very tall, nearly hairless (by cat standards) mama cat.

But the cats that I have met have never shown much respect for me. Sure, they are soft and cuddly, but they are rude.

Dogs are rude. They slobber on you and jump up at you and eat a lot... and poop on the lawn.

Cats are self-cleaning, cheap to keep, quiet (well, except for my son's unshutuppable tabby-siamese psycho genius cat, but the vet tells me that's to blame on the siamese side), and best of all they eat the bugs that sneak in through the little hole in the dining room window screen.

And my cat loves me very much.

My friend's cat is okay. But my old cats were rude and they hated me.

I adore cats.

I have 2 cats. Mr Cat is 11, and very lazy. He's orange and white, and long-haired. He loves me and follows me around the house. Mitzi is 3. She is tortioseshell, and quite fat. She's not really cuddly, but likes to be in the room with me.

All cats are autistic.

http://www.spacehost.us/~aliki/autism/autiecats.html

My cat rascle and his brother george are 6 and Lacy is 21

One of my favorite links!

/me laughs myself sick.

what a cat!

cat names i have had... Elvira, Titus Groan (my baby - still grieve for him), Iolanthe, Kitty Katisha Fonteyn Creosote (psychopath, as were all my female cats - Katisha for short), Heisenberg, Schroedinger, Lucifer.

I like cats. They are nice animals.

I just voted against cats, but my vote against them is essentially saying that I tolerate cats. I'll play with them a little, but I have never had the desire to have one. I preferr dogs instead.

Thank you.