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Study: Your Cats Actually Want To Kill You
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Research published in a psychology journal suggests that cats may not be the cuddly companions many owners believe them to be.
If that cats had the ability to kill their owners, they probably would, one psychologist has said. “Cats can be fantastic, sweet companions — until they turn on you.”
USAToday.com reports:
Researchers from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and the Bronx Zoo in New York compared the personalities of domestic house cats to those of four different types of wildcats.
To better understand feline personalities, the researchers rated a number of animals’ behaviors on what psychologists call the Big Five human personality
- Extraversion
- Agreeableness
- Conscientiousness
- Neuroticism and
- Openness
Domestic house cats and have similar personality structures to African lions with high inclinations toward dominance, impulsiveness and neuroticism, the researchers found.
“It’s what cats pretty much do on a daily basis, things like being anxious, being timid, being excitable, being aggressive toward humans, being aggressive toward each other,” said Max Wachtel, a Denver psychologist not affiliated with the study. “All of those are characteristics you see in those cute little fuzzy house cats, and you also see them in lions.”
If you ever thought your cat was anxious, insecure, tense, suspicious or aggressive toward you, you aren’t making it up, he said. If they were bigger, they probably would consider killing you.
But the news isn’t all bad: Just like lions, house cats are also playful, excitable and impulsively hilarious.
Source: http://truthisscary.com/2015/11/study-your-cats-actually-want-to-kill-you/
