{"id":1828,"date":"2025-09-21T18:59:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T18:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/?p=1828"},"modified":"2025-09-21T19:01:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T19:01:04","slug":"love-is-the-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/?p=1828","title":{"rendered":"Love Is The Drug\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The second post this month is highlighting something that\u2019s been mentioned a few times in previous blogs, but this recent article gives an interesting insight into how humans and their feline counterpoints bond chemically. The connection is likened &#8211; as it has been previously &#8211; to a parent\/child connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find the article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/cat-owners-are-getting-high-on-love-hormones\/\">https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/cat-owners-are-getting-high-on-love-hormones\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s notable that the fact cats accept interaction specifically on their own terms is mentioned, as it so frequently is. To quote William S Borroughs, \u201cThe cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don&#8217;t buy love for nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_6975.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_6975-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_6975-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_6975-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_6975-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_6975-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_6975.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>It might take time, but ithe bond is definitely worth it\u2026<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second post this month is highlighting something that\u2019s been mentioned a few times in previous blogs, but this recent article gives an interesting insight into how humans and their feline counterpoints bond chemically. The connection is likened &#8211; as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1838,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions\/1838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}