You may leave the radio or the TV on for your kitty when you head off to work, but new research is saying that might not be the best idea. Instead, why not try out a few of these songs, composed specifically for your cat master?
WNPR's Patrick Skahill spoke with John Dankoskyabout the project this morning on Where We Live, ?and blogged about it on The Beaker.
How do you know that your cat is going to like this music? Charles Snowdon is a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin and he's done quite a bit of research on the subject. He tested how cats respond to classical music composed for humans and then compared their reaction to pieces created by composer David Teie specifically for cats.
"What we discovered,” Snowdon continued, “was that the cats were much more likely to wake up and orient to and approach a speaker when it was playing one of the cat tunes than it did when it was playing one of the human music tunes."
The research was published in the journal Applied Animal Behavior Science.
But for now, kick back and listen to these two cat tunes created by composer David Teie.
