Here's the Best Way to Pet a Cat, According to Science.

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When it comes to petting your cat, less is often more.
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▼ Many of us will have experienced that super friendly cat who seems to love being stroked one minute, only to bite or swipe at us the next. It might be easy at this point to blame it on the cat, but what's likely happening here is that we're just not stroking them right.
To understand why this might be, we first need to know a bit more about kitty's ancestry. It's likely that the domestic cat's ancestors (the African wildcat) were regarded as mere pest control, but modern day catsare often treated as our valued companions or even "fur babies".
This social shift in the human-cat relationshipis thought to have occurred around 4,000 years ago — a little later than "man's best  friend"–- the domestic dog. Although this might seem like a sufficient amount of time for a species to fully adjust to increased social demands, this is unlikely to be the case for your feline friend. Domestic cats also display relatively modest genetic divergence from  their ancestors, meaning their brains are probably still wired to think like a wildcat's.
Wildcats live solitary lives and invest considerable time and effort communicating indirectly — via visual and chemical messages — just to avoid having to see each other. So it's unlikely that domestic cats inherited many complex social skills from their relatives.
Humans on the other hand, are an inherently social species — favouring proximity and touch during displays of affection. We are also drawn to infantile looking features — large eyes and forehead, a small nose and round face — this is why most of us find the  faces of cats so cute. It's not surprising, then, that our initial reaction when we see a cat or kitten is to want to stroke, cuddle and smush all over them. Though it should also come as no surprise that many cats can find this type of interaction a little overwhelming.
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ajayjohri

lol...There is science behind everything now - from investing to earning to fighting to driving to, now, stroking a cat!

soothsayer

delightful. i am also a cat person. I have 2. insightful stuff