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How to Communicate With Your Cat, According to Science (www.vice.com)

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[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 7 points 2 months ago

In my experience, the best way to get a cat to come to you is to completely ignore it. More often than not it will come to investigate.

As best as I can tell, it's simply impossible for a cat to imagine that you're not aware of them, like they are hyper aware of you, and ignoring it signals that you don't think that it's a threat. Mutual slow blinking may or may not be involved.

Note that I'm not a cat expert, haven't lived with a cat since I was eight, but most cats seem to come over to say "Hi" when I'm visiting friends, to the point where owners seem to regularly exclaim that they've never seen their cat come over to a stranger.

YMMV.