Hi hivians
I'm Novice here,technically this my First post since I joined the family, I've been going through something lately, the thing is I wasn't that Animal fond of a personality individual , but this is Different ,like Different, cause I do admire Cats though ,so I decided to get one myself and this what I figure out about it.
Here's the thing..
Cats do not snuggle with objects that smell like their owners,
Anxious cats aren’t comforted by objects that smell like their favourite person and these reminders could even make them howl more in their owner’s absence.
Most cats form strong bonds with their caretakers and appear to find their presence reassuring. However, unlike human babies, cats don’t accept scent alone as a worthy stand in, for the people they have bonded with.
That's Litterally why some cat owners are sometimes told to leave an item of theirs with their pets when they have to be separated from them, such as in a pet hotel. To see whether this practice is actually helpful, Vitale and her colleagues asked 42 cat owners to bring their cats and something that smelled like themselves ,could be a Shirt, sock, or a nightshirt to an unfamiliar testing room.
Each owner sat in the middle of a 2-metre-wide circle on the floor, while their cat was allowed to roam freely throughout the room. Then the owner left the cat alone. Afterwards, the cats experienced one of two sequences. For some, their owner came back, then left them alone again, and then finally a scented object was left in the room with the cat for others, the object was presented first and then the owners returned after the cat had been alone for a period.