{"id":2702,"date":"2025-05-29T14:13:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T14:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/cats-can-sniff-out-their-owners\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T14:13:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T14:13:47","slug":"cats-can-sniff-out-their-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/cats-can-sniff-out-their-owners\/","title":{"rendered":"Cats can sniff out their owners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-05-29 14:13:46<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Cats are able to differentiate between the smell of their owner and that of a stranger.<BR><br \/>\nA new study by Japanese researchers has found that felines spent a lot more time sniffing tubes containing the scent of unknown people compared to tubes containing the odour of their owner.<BR><br \/>\nThe researchers suggest that the animals can distinguish between familiar and unfamiliar humans based on smell but cannot prove whether they can identify specific individuals.<BR><br \/>\nThe idea of sniffing the unknown has been shown before in felines, as research has demonstrated that weaned kittens sniff unfamiliar female moggies for longer compared to their mothers.<BR><br \/>\nHidehiko Uchiyama, one of the study&#8217;s authors at the Tokyo University of Agriculture, said: &#8220;The odour stimuli used in this study were only those of known and unknown persons.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Behavioural experiments in which cats are presented with multiple known-person odour stimuli would be needed, and we would need to find specific behavioural patterns in cats that appear only in response to the owner&#8217;s odour.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-05-29 14:13:46 Cats are able to differentiate between the smell of their owner and that of a stranger. A new study by Japanese researchers has found that felines spent a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2704,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions\/2704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}