Tag: animal behavior

Nov 06

Your Cat Is Actually Trying To Communicate With You, So Pay Attention

Billy AntonioPosted in Animals, Entertainment Tagged , , ,

Your cat is many things: Peaceful bedtime companion, terrible rapscallion intent on knocking over water glasses and chasing bobby pins, infernal alarm clock that rises with the sun and demands food. If you’ve spent even five minutes in the same room as one of these creatures, you know that trying to befriend one is like […]

Apr 25

Is It Bad To Hug Your Dog? This Study Says One Thing, My Heart Says Another

The FriskyPosted in Animals, Relationships Tagged , , , , ,

According to some old, bald, mustachioed man with a PhD writing for Psychology Today, it’s bad for dogs to hug them. This is based on what “Canine Corner” columnist Stanley Coren calls “new data,” but as far as I can tell, this data was compiled from his personal impressions of 250 photos of dogs being hugged by their […]