How do you recognize the mood of your cat through its signals?

How do you recognize the mood of your cat through its signals?

 The dogs seem biologically incapable of concealing their mood, as they stomp, shake their tails or make noises from their noses are signs of satisfaction, nervousness or great happiness. So we can easily understand indicators of the nature of what dogs feel.

Cats also have a sophisticated and complex body language, expressing their mood by moving their tail aggressively, wrinkling their fur, or choosing to set their ears and mustaches. If a voice is made, it is - usually not always - an indication of friendship, friendship and consent.

This is a reliable way to see whether the pussy is in a friendly mood, or whether we should leave it alone.

It's remarkable that, while we can be certain that there are bonds of friendship between us and dogs, and even though domesticated cats have given us their company for thousands of years, cats still suffer from a slightly negative mental image, in the minds of some. The independence that many see as an advantage is perceived by others as conservative or selfish. Cat hates also claim to show affection only when starving.

On the other hand, the owners of these animals say that the criticism is nothing but nonsense and that the bonds of friendship between them and their cats are as strong as those between dogs and their owners. So maybe we should wonder why we should paint a picture of a cat as a conservative, unfriendly, solitude - loving animal? And is there any truth to that belief?

At the outset, it can be said to be positive that this image of an "independent" cat has done little harm to the popularity of cats as a pet. It is believed that there are approximately 10 million domestic cats in the United Kingdom alone. It is further believed that about 25 percent of households have at least one cat, according to a 2012 study.

The prevailing negative mental image of cats is probably due to the way it was originally acquired. It took place far more gradually than with dogs, and cats also held the lead, in a very large way as well.

The first domesticated cats began to appear in villages in the Middle East during the modern Stone Age, some 10,000 years ago. They did not rely on their human hosts in such a distant time to provide them with food, but rather encouraged their own access to it and to protect crops and food stores from rats and other harmful organisms.

But from the beginning, our relationship with cats was less intimate and friendly than our connection to dogs, those animals that helped us hunt and relied on us in return for their share of the spoils. Besides, perhaps the cat, now lying on your couch or staring at you with its glowing eyes on top of the bookcase, keeps a lot of the instincts its ancestors had in the pre-hero era, such as wanting to hunt or patrol the surrounding land to protect them from other cats entering them, which makes them, more like, ancestors. This means that our trust for cats has only partially kept them out of the wild.

According to veterinarian Karen Heistand, who is also responsible for an international cat charity, it is largely because of "a human misunderstanding of the nature of this species. There is a great resemblance between dogs and humans, and the two species have lived side by side for a long time. And there was a common development for them, in a way. Cats, on the other hand, have happened much later with them, as they are descended from an isolated, logical ancestor that does not represent a social biological species. "

The African wildcat, from which our domesticated domestic cats descend, tends to live in isolation, and its type of kittens converge only to often mate.

In this regard, Heistand says: "The cat is the only animal of isolationist nature that we've settled. All the other animals we domesticated, social bonds prevailed within their herds. "

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Moving a cat's eyelid quickly or slowly is a sign of affection.

And given the tendency of cats to live in isolation from the other animals that surround us, it's no wonder we may misunderstand the signals from them. Heistand says: "Kitties are increasingly popular, as they are highly independent and can take care of themselves. But that doesn't relate to whether or not the nature of our lives fits. Humans expect cats to be similar to them and dogs. It's not. "

More recently, studies on cat emotions and the question of how often they mingle with others have accelerated, as they have not received the attention of researchers - for many years - compared to dogs.

Although most of these studies are still in their initial stages, they have already shown that the tendency of cats to mingle with humans is complex and involves multiple factors.

In the beginning, it can be said that cats - like dogs - rely on their most frequent interfaces with others, their body movements rather than their sounds. Christine Vitale, a doctoral researcher who studies cat behavior, says: "I think it's harder for humans to read the body language of kittens, compared to what happens with dogs," which is not necessarily the cat's fault.

But there's another key feature, which may have made it possible for dogs to be closer to our hearts than cats, which was revealed by a study at the University of Portsmouth. The study showed that dogs learned to mimic expressions shown by infants, which aroused the desire of human beings to care for and care for them. That ability appears to be due to the development of a muscle through which dogs can raise the inner eyebrows of their eyes, which was not present in their wolf ancestors.

And so what we're saying is that the view that we see in dogs' eyes reflects real or naive innocence, not just a stereotype, but what we can describe as "an ingenious thing associated with evolution," has strengthened the bonds and bonds between humans and dogs.

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Cats become more willing to make strong links with humans, if they develop positive relationships in the early stages of their lives.

The bad news for cats is they lack this particular muscle. As a result, the gaze of cats in their surroundings can seem cold, unfriendly and intimate, and even spawning two cats in each other, often a prelude to a fight. But staring at you with a look that's slowly moving its eyelids, which is known as "blinking," might be a very different thing, which is the expression of love, that's how kittens feel like that. It is not necessarily a sign of contempt, but an indication of relaxation.

Vitali draws attention to a study at an American university, in which dogs and cats were left in a room alone for some time, and their owners returned to it suddenly later. According to the researcher, it is interesting that dogs and cats are similar in their reactions to the sudden return of their owners; The animals of both species flocked to them briefly alive and welcoming, before returning to explore the room again. Researchers describe the tranquillity of animals upon their return as "safe association," which indicates a strong emotional bond between the two sides.

Vitaly argues that the bias with which humans expect animals and what they will do affects their behaviour. Trying to force cats to behave more closely to dogs, such as being overwhelmed by their attention, is an 

effort by us to push them away from normal behaviour.

As part of this problem, we have historically failed to recognize that cats are different from dogs. Even eerts who have spent years taking cat care training are not immune to this predicament.

In this regard, Hestand recounts that she felt "totally foolish" when she went to a conference in 2007, and learned there that she was unaware of "all this basic information about cats, such as the fact that she would rather have her food and drink put in two different places."

Take, for example, the question of cats scanning their bodies in their owners' bodies. Even though it's customary for that to count.