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Scientists Confirm You Can Communicate With Your Cat by Blinking Very SlowlyScience Alert
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In a study published in 2020, scientists observed cat-human interactions, and were able to confirm that this act of blinking slowly makes cats both familiar and unfamiliar animals approach and be receptive to humans. ...
Only if they already want to.
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But can you command them to kill? (Original Post)
Pete Ross Junior
Nov 2022
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Ocelot II
(115,836 posts)1. If you have a cat you already knew that.
I exchange slow blinks with the feral cat who lives on my porch as well as with my pampered old indoor cat.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)2. Same here.
Ferals seem more willing to blink back.
2naSalit
(86,776 posts)4. I do that with the cats in shelters when I go to them.
I actually learned it from deer.
Bayard
(22,149 posts)3. Never thought about it
Will have to try.
2naSalit
(86,776 posts)5. Someone finally did a study!
I have been doing that with many species for years. It works with most wildlife and certainly with domestic pets.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,480 posts)6. I slow blink Othello
And say I love you at the same time so he associates the words with the good feeling slow blinking with cats feel when they get blinked.