Cat Chat: I've Come Across The Most Amazing Story

Lisa loves cats, Russell not so much. Regardless - Lisa has found an interesting study involving cats and men. Tune in to find out more. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Cat chat. It's been a while, but I've come across
the most amazing story chat courtesy of Sosi, our producer.
She found it and she's a cat person too. If
you're a cat parent, you're probably well acquainted with the
cat's range of meals. There are meals that mean feed
me now, and there are meals that mean hello, welcome home,

(00:23):
and meals it mean I absolutely do not like this person,
Please remove them from my presence immediately. While the exact
intonation and cadence of each meal depends on the cat
in question and what they're trying to communicate, a new
study has found one consistency cats are louder when talking
to men. Why Well, the researchers think it's because men

(00:47):
don't listen.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Oh, so this is why I get this reaction from
a cat. Usually, No, that's.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Not why you get that reaction. Do you get that
reaction because they know that you're not into the A
study from the University of Anchora in Turkey surveyed the
behavior of cats and focused on how the cats greet
their owners, who were wearing a small camera on their
chest and recording the first few minutes after they return
home each day after analyzing the footage and mapping out
different behavior patterns, which included actions like yawning and stretching

(01:19):
and crouching, the reseearchers noticed one the key difference in
how the cats interacted with their caregivers. The cats were
much louder when greeting men, meowing more to grab their attention.
Nothing else about the behavior was different, just the meowing.
Even after accounting for other variables like the cats, breed, sex,
a number of companion cats in the household, it was

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clear that the owner's gender was the only factor. The
researchers theorized that this could be because female caregivers are
more vocal with their cats and better at picking up
on more subtle feeline body language. That's right. That's therefore
possible that male caregivers required more explicit vocalizations to respond

(02:06):
to the needs of their cats, which in turn reinforces
cat's tendency to use more directed and frequent vocal behavior
to attract their attention. Well, no bigger than that. You
will listen to me. And when my cat does it,
her eyes get really wise as well, she just gets
really madic listen to me, now, look at me, look

(02:28):
at me?

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Sounds complicated. Well, it sounds like hard work. It sounds
like I'll stick with the dog. Really, a dog, you
don't have to you don't have to read it. I
mean the dog just wears its heart on its sleeve.
To Yes, this sounds like a lot. I don't think
I'm getting a cat anytime soon. No, I don't think so.
I think I'll stick with the dog. Well, there you

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have it. There's another addition.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
But that's fascinating, don't you think.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Don't you find that fascinating world as a dog person?

Speaker 1 (02:56):
No, because the cats are so smart, you're.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Well, they always look so disinterested when they look at you.
Don't know, I mean to come up. Let's be honest.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
You've got to You've got to earn their Oh, don't
you there are respect.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
I don't know if I have the energy to earn it. Yeah,
Like I said, I'll stick with the dog.