Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Why cats won’t punish a stranger who harms you
Are cats as attached to their owners as dogs are? Most of you agree that dogs are very loyal and sensitive to their owners’ feelings, emotions, and even situations. For example, they seem to feel more friendly to those who help their owners than those who don’t. Unlike dogs, cats don’t show such preference when they are given food. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that cats lack emotional attachment to their owners. First, they were domesticated more recently than dogs. Also, cats are descended from solitary hunters that weren’t used to being social. Naturally, dogs’ social skills have been further developed by living with humans while cats’ have been slow and different. Indeed, simply judging cats’ friendliness from their behaviors seems unfair to them. They have their own ways of thinking and feeling.
As an Austrian philosopher said, “If a lion could speak, we could not understand him.”
Enjoy reading the article and learn about the different emotional mechanisms cats have from dogs.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210318-why-cats-wont-punish-a-stranger-who-harms-you
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