Gwern — Domestic Cats↗

Google Surveys, as mentioned, doesn’t seem to support any elegant way of repeating a series of questions, so I hardcoded questions for up to 5 cats, producing a ‘wide’ survey format in which each row...

catnip <- read.csv ( stdin (), header= TRUE ) Family,Genus,Species,Name,Study, Year, Responders, N, Country, Sex, Breed Felidae,Panthera,leo,African lion,McElvain et...

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Catalogue of errors or problems caused by cats randomly doing things (ie. real-life fuzz testing).

I review John Bradshaw’s book on domestic cat psychology, Cat Sense , after difficulties with my own cat.

Cats are not humans, but we design things like they are, for our convenience.

Do people like watching cats because of neoteny? I doubt it, because adult cats don’t look at all like babies.

While petting cats , I accidentally discovered about half of cats are fascinated by the smell & taste of earwax , particularly that of humans (both dry & wet), and this interest can last indefinitely.