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| How often does your cat show emotions such as fear? |
We recently came across a study about how Japanese pet owners
attribute emotions to their pets. In that study, 546 people who have either a dog
or a cat responded to a survey that asked questions about how closely bonded
they were to their pets and the types of emotions they thought their pets
experienced. At first we were going to write a post about the results of the Japanese
study, but then we thought it would be more fun to do our own little study. So,
we created an extremely unscientific 10-question survey to let readers tell us about
their own cats’ emotions.
If you wish to participate, simply scroll down, and for each emotion listed, select the
response that best describes how often your cat experiences or expresses that
emotion. If you have more than one cat, please consider your cats as a
group (for example, if you have four cats and one of them frequently expresses
anger, you would choose “often” for question 1). Remember this is just for fun!
We’ll collect the responses (up to 100, because that's how many we can have with a free survey) and share results in a future
post.
We respect your privacy, so no personal information is being
collected.
Thank you for participating!
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| Cat emotions are open to interpretation. Is this cat jumping for joy, or just trying to catch something? |
And here's the survey:
This survey is based on the one used by Su, Koda, and
Martens (2018).
Read the original Japanese study: B. Su, N. Koda, and P.
Martens. 2018. “How Japanese Companion Dog and Cat Owners’ Degree of of Attachment
Relates to the Attribution of Emotions to Their Animals.” PLoS One 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190781
