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Here Is Why Your Cat Might Just Be A Jerk.

A new study reveals that cats can actually recognize their names; If they chose to ignore you — that’s on you, not their inability.

Saniya Aamir
4 min readSep 11, 2019
Photo by Chen Yi Wen on Unsplash

Have you ever wondered if your cat really is dumb or does it purposely ignore you when you call its name? Well, there’s bad news and there’s good news.

Good News: Your cat is not as dumb as you think.

Bad News: She might secretly hate you.

According to a new study published in scientific reports on April 4th, 2019, it was proven that cats can actually differentiate their own names from other words based on the phonetic differences.

Cats Might Be The Oldest Pets

Photo by Yerlin Matu on Unsplash

Cats are amongst the most domesticated animals all over the world. What’s so interesting about cats is that they are also the oldest and amongst the first animals to even be domesticated by humans. This can be proven by old Egyptian drawings about cats eating fishes under chairs or the fact that there is almost 10,000-year-old grave in Cyprus, where a cat it buried alongside it’s…

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Saniya Aamir
Saniya Aamir

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