Bad news cat owners, not only has a new study revealed that your pet is neurotic, but it’s also confirmed that your cat really wants to kill you.
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As for their neuroticism, domestic cats have “the highest loadings on anxious, insecure, and tense, suspicious, and fearful of people, ” the study says.
Maybe these are instinctive traits, or maybe it’s because people like to dress cats up in ridiculous outfits.
Good thing that’s not the case. Those traits are neuroticism, impulsiveness, and dominance, CNET reports.
But although the cat may essentially be a miniature lion, one of the researchers, Marieke Gartner, has cleared up just how far those similarities go – and whether your dearly beloved pet views you as prey or not. “They are sweet an affectionate and can curl up with you bed…but they can turn at any time”. However, rather than you being able to sit down with your cat and talk through these problems, your cat simply asks like a petulant child and continues to brood with resentment.
‘Different cats have different personalities.
If you can identify what your cat seems afraid of, then you can eliminate it, or at least, mitigate it, to help her. You also want to make sure she’s got lots of places that feel safe to her around your house.
Dr. Max Wachtel, who works as a psychologist and analysed the information that was gathered by the institutions, spoke to 9NEWS about the date, concluding, “They’re cute and furry and cuddly, but we need to remember when we have cats as pets, we are inviting little predators into our house”.
“Larger animals are at a disadvantage in captive settings due to the inherently smaller amount of space they have”, the Edinburgh report said. “Similarly, the larger their natural range, the more captivity inhibits them from performing natural behaviours”.
Animal Madness, a book published a year ago by the USA science writer Dr Laurel Braitman, contains examples of psychotic behaviours exhibited by captive animals such as Gus, a polar bear that lived in Central Park Zoo, New York. Experts concluded that he was bored and depressed and he was given anti-depressants and a Jacuzzi in his pool in an effort to cheer him up.
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The study was done in cooperation with the Bronx Zoo.
