"Cats do not need their owners, the scientists conclude," another says. "Poor cats are always poor PR." As if it were not enough for Australia to declare The war on wild cats, we now have a study that says cats do not need their owners. "The University of Lincon's research adapted the test of Ainsworth's" strange situation, "developed in the 1970s to observe How much attachment to the children and, sometimes, the dogs (idiots), their caregivers. They found that when you put a cat in an unknown room does not seek the tranquility of its owner or does not seem to miss them if they are absent. The potential explanation for this, catches my eye: cats, unlike children and dogs (idiots), are territorial - put them in a strange room and will be too busy freaking out to seek tranquility. Of the independent cat that sees humans as nothing more than practical food dispensers is firmly ingrained. As a cat owner, I am deceived enough to think that my cat loves me. And I've been shaking my brain, and asking all that I know, to come to hard tests of this fact.





Your cat…
1. Greet you at the door. A colleague's cat recognizes the noise of her husband's car on a busy street and two other cats sit on the garden wall waiting for him to return from work.




2. Follows you around. Your cat comes and hangs out with you, in a kind of casual, hey what you're doing, oh taking a shower, well, I'd sit just then, way? That's love.




3. Look at you. Disturbing But cats only make direct eye contact with the people they really like.



4. Blink on you. A long slow flicker is a cat equivalent of a kiss. Do it back. But only if no one is watching.

5. Meows. Cats do not meow to other cats, only to humans. This is my best cat fact. Your cat is talking to you. Your cat is telling you that he loves you. Also: purring. Loudly.



6. Tolerates affection. My cat lets me kiss her, even though she clearly does not like it. She can dodge, but she does not run away, and I consider this a victory.