{"id":697302,"date":"2021-07-28T07:18:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=697302"},"modified":"2021-07-28T07:18:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T11:18:00","slug":"study-letting-cats-decide-when-to-be-petted-avoids-hostility-and-increases-their-affection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=697302","title":{"rendered":"Study: Letting cats decide when to be petted avoids hostility and increases their affection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts in feline behavior and welfare at Nottingham Trent University also found that paying close attention to cats&#8217; behavior and body language and thinking about where to stroke them were key when improving interactions between cats and people.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-07-cats-petted-hostility-affection.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Study: Letting cats decide when to be petted avoids hostility and increases their affection<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts in feline behavior and welfare at Nottingham Trent University also found that paying close attention to cats&#8217; behavior and body language and thinking about where to stroke them were&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=697302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=697302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=697302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=697302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}