I don’t know why I thought I could escape.
When my cat “Bear” jumped on my lap in anticipation of a morning contact session, I now read the newspaper giving him some unruly, engrossing strokes. I was wondering if I could escape with.
I thought, “Hey, hey.” “I start by paying full attention to him, but then I sneak my treatise when he’s not looking.” I stroked him from head to tail and under his chin. “Chuck” and he started rolling in ecstasy.
My moment came when he turned his back on me and spread to his stomach. Immediately, I reached for the newspaper with my right hand. I continued stroking the bear on the left and opened it on the top page.
The bear returned his ears.
“Oh, oh,” I told myself. “But wait … he doesn’t know what I’m doing. Does he know how I’m having an affair?”
But he knew.
The bear tolerated it for a while. His ears were laid back and his tail was thrashed. Suddenly he jumped off my lap and lay on the floor. After washing for a few minutes, he stared at me with a blaming expression.
I messed up the HIS morning petting session with my own selfishness, and he was clearly informing me of my mistakes.
Do you think of cats?
Cat owners may be the only pet lovers who truly believe their pets think. It’s not the first time that a cat’s owner feels obviously creepy that he’s not only thinking about it, but being manipulated by it.
The owner of a veteran cat noticed:
o Cats are very engrossed and determined animals.
o Cats seem to ponder things and make decisions.
o Cats choose people and adopt them.
o Cats can be offended and have a grudge against insulting dignity. Fortunately, they soon forget them.
o They are easily embarrassed and seem to obscure it with casual behavior.
o They are very independent, but would like to work with humans as long as this spirit of cooperation is completely disguised.
In short, cat “owners” always have a vague feeling that they are somehow in trouble, but they are not exactly sure how.
What does the word “think” mean?
Answers.com defines the ability to think “use the power of reason by coming up with ideas, drawing inferences, making decisions, and so on.”
Undoubtedly, what puts humans at the top of the food chain is the power of reason, the ability to come up with ideas, make decisions, and put results into action. In other words, humans dominate his / her environment because of his / her thinking ability.
Cat brain and cat behavior
Cats are often used as experimental animals because their brains are structured like the human brain. But the question is, do these similarities lead to similar cognitive processes, that is, can cats actually gather information, reason things, and make decisions?
Lack of cooperation with cat trainers is of a high degree of intelligence on the part of the cat (too clever for humans to do what she says) or to a low degree (too stupid to be obedient to training). Received as either.
Cat lovers usually choose the former, which gives a clear impression that they are trained, rather than cats.
Can cats use tools?
About.com writer J. Justin Lancaster reports that cat Sasha has found a way to wet dry cat food by bringing cotton hair to the toilet and then dripping water. .. Her food. This may be the most sophisticated use of tools ever observed in the non-human animal kingdom.
On the other hand, most cat owners observe that when a cat faces an obstacle that blocks the goal, it never moves out of the way. If the obstacles don’t get in the way, the cat will be surprised for a moment, but then reach the unobstructed goal.
Cats, even though previous experience has shown that this is the best way to reach their goals when they find themselves again in the same situation, with the same destination blocked by the same obstacles. Does not knock out of the way of obstacles.
There is a jury
So the jury goes out or “hangs” on the question of whether the cat thinks.
But when my cat doesn’t look at me and knows I’m not paying enough attention to him and gives all the evidence that I’m angry with this, I wonder ..
Why isn’t stroking him while reading the newspaper the same as stroking him while using my concentration?
It doesn’t make sense unless I accept the possibility that he came up with it. He would decide if it was all or zero and wouldn’t accept the newspaper to “play a second fiddle.” And his conclusion: I’d better shape it. Anything that lacks my complete attention will not be accepted.
He’s going to get a complete caress from me-or at all.
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