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How to train a cat: an adapted extract from Zazie Todd’s recent book, Purr: The Science of Making Your Cat Happy.Research Digest and The Psychologist also have plenty of past coverage on cats, including: What’s inside your cat’s head? A review of cat (Felis silvestris catus) cognition research past, present and future.The quality of being sociable: The influence of human attentional state, population, and human familiarity on domestic cat sociability.Attachment bonds between domestic cats and humans.Several articles by Kristyn Vitale and colleagues: Companion Animal Psychology: a blog written by Zazie Todd.Relevant research and writing from our guests includes: PsychCrunch theme music by Catherine Loveday and Jeff Knowler.Īrtwork by Tim Grimshaw. Our guests are Dr Kristyn Vitale, assistant professor of animal health and behaviour at Unity College, and Dr Zazie Todd, author of the Companion Animal Psychology blog and recent book Purr: The Science of Making Your Cat Happy. They discuss research on cat cognition and intelligence, chat about what we can do how to make our cats’ lives happier, and even share some tips on how to train them. In this episode, Ella Rhodes, journalist for The Psychologist, speaks to two experts who are working to help us to understand cats. But are cats really so enigmatic – or are we only just beginning to understand them? We’ve lived side-by-side with domestic cats for thousands of years, yet they maintain an aura of mystery and a reputation for aloofness and even outright disdain for humans. This is Episode 31 of PsychCrunch, the podcast from the British Psychological Society’s Research Digest, sponsored by Routledge Psychology.

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