Does Your Cat Like You — Or Just Tolerate You?

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🗓️ 12 August 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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(Encore episode) It's another installment of our series, "Animal Slander," where we take a common phrase about animals and see what truth there is to it. The issue before the Short Wave court today: "Do cats deserve their aloof reputation?" We look at the evidence with cat researcher, Kristyn Vitale of Oregon State University.

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0:00.0	Hey, Deuterino's Emily Quang here.
0:02.2	Hope you're enjoying Dog Week shortwave style.
0:05.6	So listen, for all my cat lovers out there
0:08.3	who feel a little neglected, don't you worry.
0:12.2	There's science for you too.
0:14.0	You may remember our series Animal Slander,
0:16.5	which takes common phrases about animals
0:18.6	and debunks them with data.
0:21.4	One of our earliest episodes was Maddie and I talking about cats.
0:25.6	Did they deserve their aloof reputation
0:28.6	or is it a bunch of slanderous nonsense?
0:32.0	Here's that episode, which features some choice dog research too.
0:36.4	All right, enjoy.
0:38.5	You're listening to shortwave from NPR.
0:42.0	Water in the car.
0:43.4	You see it?
0:45.6	People say a lot of negative things about cats,
0:48.3	myself included sometimes.
0:50.1	If you don't believe me, just ask our project manager,
0:53.3	Aaron Register.
0:54.2	I just don't like that when people say that cats
0:57.1	don't like people or cats aren't friendly.
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