{"id":627,"date":"2019-11-29T15:17:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T15:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/?p=627"},"modified":"2019-11-29T15:17:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T15:17:39","slug":"just-a-feeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/?p=627","title":{"rendered":"Just a feeling&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In previous blogs, I&#8217;ve touched upon the emotional capacity felines exhibit and literature that investigates easily identifiable emotions to the author that they report present in cats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, a few articles regarding a study by Oregon State University to investigate the emotional connection a cat can develop with their human carers has been shared on various internet sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study lead author, Kristin Vitale states that the findings prove cats are capable of forming emotional attachments to their caregivers the same way a child or dog does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below is a link to the university site, and the information compiled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/today.oregonstate.edu\/news\/cats-children-and-dogs-develop-attachments-their-caregivers-study-shows\">https:\/\/today.oregonstate.edu\/news\/cats-children-and-dogs-develop-attachments-their-caregivers-study-shows<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While some of the articles I&#8217;ve seen feel there were factors that needed to be included for the findings to be more conclusive, I myself absolutely believe cats build up bonds; and in some instances negative and positive associations, with specific people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Poe-and-I.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-633\" width=\"403\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Poe-and-I.jpg 637w, https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Poe-and-I-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Poe-and-I-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><figcaption><em>Communicating\u00a0affection&#8230;not\u00a0the\u00a0same\u00a0action\u00a0in\u00a0every\u00a0species&#8230;<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In previous blogs, I&#8217;ve touched upon the emotional capacity felines exhibit and literature that investigates easily identifiable emotions to the author that they report present in cats. Recently, a few articles regarding a study by Oregon State University to investigate&#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\/627"}],"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=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":635,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}