THE TRUE NATURE OF CATS-SPECIFIC MUSIC (THE ONE THAT LOWERS THE FELINES STRESS LEVEL)!

So, dear listener, a bunch of researchers do a study (P) on the effects of cat-specific music on the felines' stress level when the furry pets go to the veterinary.

And the scientists find that: "cat-specific music can significantly lower stress-related behaviors in cats visiting the veterinary clinic for wellness examinations. Adding cat-specific music to veterinary offices as environmental enrichment could provide great value to the cat’s welfare in the clinic" (P).

The cat-specific music the scientists refers to is "purring and suckling sounds [...] layered into tempos and frequencies used in feline vocalization music" (P). 

But, dear reader, this dumb blog in the following cartoon is showing you the real nature of the "cat-specific music" the cats find so relaxing.

A cat listening to relaxing cat-specific music (by @sciencemug)

[Cat free pic by Michael Sum (source: Unsplash); iPod free pic by Zhang Kenny (source: Unsplash); headphones free pic by Brett Jordan (source: Unsplash); all pics adapted by @sciencemug]

'Cause, let's admit it pal, cats are fundamentally beautiful jerks...

Paper (P)
Amanda Hampton, Alexandra Ford, Roy E Cox, Chin-chi Liu, Ronald Koh (2020) Effects of music on behavior and physiological stress response of domestic cats in a veterinary clinic - Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery 22, 122–128.

 

WAS REALLY CURIOSITY THAT KILLED THE CAT?

by @sciencemug

[The picture of Curiosity is adapted from a Public Domain image by sciencemug (source: Wikimedia Commons)]

Curious about Curiosity (hahahah, I've made a joke...)? Go here!

"CAT'S" is a joint by the way, only the foam of red space-cats hang out at that place... Yes, as you probably already suspected, cats are indeed aliens who a long time ago decided to do humanity 'a favour': to hypnotize it and exploit it. And they did. Quickly. And relentlessly. Then, our new furry lords from outer space thought they had fulfilled their plan and decided to show us their benevolence and to thank their gods with two ancient sacred rituals of theirs: the 'vomit slimy balls of hairs over precious carpets and inside expensive shoes' ritual and the 'sharpen the nails on couches and/or courtains and/or human skin' ritual. In short, humanity's will was annihilated. We were cats' puppets. But in 1935 a man came, his name was Erwin Schroedinger. He was born normal, dominated by cats as the rest of us, only, after an incident with a radioactive book of quantum mechanics, his brain was re-wired so he could overcome the feline hypnosis. Erwin then became conscious of our situation, he rebelled and created a wapon. 
A weapon that finally allowed humanity to fight back.  
A box. 
The rest is history and PiPs passed me the flu so I'm under medications and uuuh, look at that... A huge flock of banana peels is migrating west!