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Massachusetts Bill Would Outlaw Practice Of Declawing Cats
Massachusetts lawmakers are weighing a ban on the practice of declawing cats. Supporters of the measure say declawing is cruel and painful. They say cats rely on their paws and claws to groom themselves and to help protect and defend their bodies. The practice involves amputating a cat’s toes to the first knuckle.
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Study Finds You Can 'Pet Your Stress Away' By Cuddling Cats and Dogs
You know that petting your dog feels good, now science is backing you up. A recent study conducted by Washington State University scientists found that cuddling and stroking a cat or dog for just a few minutes can reduce your cortisol levels. “Just 10 minutes can have a significant impact,” Patricia Pendry, an associate professor in WSU’s Department of Human Development, said in a statement. “Students in our study that interacted with cats and dogs had a significant reduction in cortisol, a major stress hormone.”
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Do our pets ever really love us – or do they just stick around for the food?
We dote on our cats and dogs, but is it a one-way relationship? Here’s what science tells us about how to decode their emotions, whether they are avoiding us or getting a little too amorous with our legs
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Accidental cat filter appears on Pakistan official's briefing
‘Human error’ blamed for livestreamed briefing in which officials appeared as cats
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New York could become first state to ban cat declawing
New York would be the first state to ban the declawing of cats under legislation heading to a vote in the state Legislature. The Senate and Assembly are both expected to take up the bill on Tuesday. Declawing a cat is already illegal in much of Europe as well as in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Denver.
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Researchers strapped video cameras on 16 cats and let them do their thing. Here’s what they found
Science chats with the researcher behind a new attempt to record cats when they’re on their own
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Good-bye Grumpy Cat. It was nice knowing you.
RIP Grumpy.
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Grumpy Cat Dies: Feline Star of TV & Internet Was 7
Some very sad news. Grumpy Cat, the Internet’s most famous feline with a perpetually grouchy mug, has died. Grumpy Cat, whose real name was Tardar Sauce, died on Tuesday...
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Cats rival dogs on many tests of social smarts. But is anyone brave enough to study them?
Social cognition researchers are finally probing the secrets of the feline mind—when the cats deign to cooperate
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Puppy and kitten farming to be banned under 'Lucy's law'
A law banning puppy and kitten farming, which campaigners hope will end the practice by some unscrupulous breeders of keeping animals constantly pregnant and often in dirty and cramped conditions, is to be laid by the government. The change, expected to come into force in April 2020, will mean young cats and dogs can no longer be sold by a pet shop or commercial dealer unless they have bred them.
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How to find a lost cat: Unique method from Japan proves to be surprisingly effective
We all know that cats love to look down on their human owners with disdain, but we never think they’re actually going to turn their tails up on us and leave, especially when we hold all the bargaining chips as their ever-loving carers who lavish them with pats, warmth, and never-ending bowls of food and water.
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Julian Assange's cat: A brief history
The embassy of Ecuador in London has lost two — not one — of its most high-profile guests in recent times. One is Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, who was arrested on charges of skipping bail in a UK court after seven years of asylum within the embassy. The other is Assange’s cat, better known as Embassy Cat, a social media phenomenon often seen wearing a tie in pictures posted by Assange.
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The wild world of trust funds for pets
A small but growing number of Americans are leaving inheritances to their pets. How is Fluffy using the money?
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Why Dogs Are Loved and Valued More Than Cats
One of the easiest ways to start a heated debate is to raise the issue of whether dogs or cats are better and more satisfactory pets. There actually is some scientific data which has been collected on this issue and it suggests that, although both dogs and cats provide joy and companionship to their humans, dogs are more emotionally satisfying and dogs are also more universally preferred.
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France’s EU minister names her cat 'Brexit' because ‘he meows loudly to be let out but just stands there when I open the door’
Nathalie Loiseau is France's lead minister in charge of Brexit
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Cat Saves Florida Family From Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
A Central Florida couple is crediting Bella for saving their lives. Bella is not their daughter or their dog, she is their cat. Paul and Leona Jones say when they got home from eating dinner on Feb. 27, they just wanted to get inside out of the rain. In their haste, they forgot to push the off button on their car. It sat in the garage all night emitting carbon monoxide, silently poisoning the entire house. At around 1:00 a.m., Bella started crying and woke them up.
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Meet Goose the cat, the four-legged star of 'Captain Marvel'
Every superhero needs a sidekick. In Captain Marvel, the titular hero’s companion is a fuzzy star who steals every scene they’re in: Goose, Carol Danvers’ cat. In the comics, Carol has a pet cat named Chewie who accompanies her on her adventures (and proves to be an unexpectedly useful ally in the face of danger). For the film version, directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck decided to trade the Star Wars moniker for a Top Gun reference and rename the cat Goose, a nod to Carol’s early career as an Air Force pilot in the ’80s.
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New Study Explores Relationship Between Cat Welfare And Owner Personality
A new study published in peer-reviewed journal PLOS One explores the relationship between owner personality and cat welfare. Authored by Lauren R. Finka, Joanna Ward, Mark J. Farnworth, and Daniel S. Mills, “Owner personality and the wellbeing of their cats share parallels with the parent-child relationship” is one of the first studies to draw parallels between parent-child and owner-pet relationships.
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Wounded tiger 'finds humans to ask for help' after being injured
A wounded tiger has amazed wildlife experts by coming out of the wild to seek human help after he was wounded. The tiger, known as Tikhon, suddenly appeared at a remote Russian border post on the frontier with China over the New Year period, and refused to leave. Even when the border guards - part of the FSB security service, formerly called the KGB - fired warning gunshots, the cat stayed put.
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The 25 Best Cats in Sci-Fi & Fantasy
As anyone who has ever used the Internet knows, cats are everything. According to the American Veterinary Medical Association, more than 36 U.S. million households sport a feline companion. Where dogs are blindly loyal, a cat's ambivalence speaks of alien wisdom.
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