Sunday, September 11, 2005

Are cats social creatures?

I asked resident kitty expert, R, about how social cats are, seeing as how I kept on seeing a lot of housing posts asking for or advertising for cat-friendly rooms for rent with the caveat that no additional cats were allowed since the poster's kitty didn't like other cats. R said cats are in general not very social creatures, unlike most dogs.


Social cats: evil pic of feral cats being social

So, after getting up in the morning and walking around and seeing a group of 5-6 cats always congregating in the morning at the same place, I finally snapped a picture of some of them for R to comment on.


Social cats: brighter pic of feral cats being social

The problem was that the cats weren't being as social as they normally are, but I got at least 3 of them lying near each other.

1 Comments:

At Sat Sep 17, 10:26:00 PM 2005, Blogger Lierne said...

Cats will sometimes hang out with each other - they just don't have complex social behaviors like dogs.

It depends on the cat too. Some of my mom's cats like hanging with others, but Kiwi hates all other cats (and most humans too).

Maybe those cats are family.

I like the first pic with the evil glowing eyes.

 

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