Kitty Talk.

CHOICE (Psychology); CATS; CAT owners; ANIMAL behavior; ANIMAL cognition

"There are still some people who consider cats independent - that you cannot have a real relationship with cats", says lead study author Charlotte de Mouzon, an ethologist and cat behaviorist then at the University of Paris Nanterre. The team found that felines reacted distinctively to their owner speaking in cat-directed speech - but not to their owner speaking in adult tones or to a stranger using either adult- or cat-directed speech. ANIMAL BEHAVIOR As any cat owner will tell you, talking to your cat is totally normal. [Extracted from the article]

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