Scientist: Cats think of owners as overgrown oafs

Thor waits for snacks during a recent Seahawk game.

NEW YORK — Anyone who’s ever owned a cat has probably wondered if their pet thinks of them as another cat.

It turns out they do, albeit a clumsy, overgrown oaf of a cat, according to a British biologist, reports CBS Connecticut .

Dr. John Bradshaw has studied felines for 30 years and has just released a book titled Cat Sense in which he traces the evolution of the cat/human relationship. He notes that cats were never bred for companionship they way that dogs were. Cats sort of adopted us and got used to hunting the rats and vermin that fed on the discarded food of early humans.

Bradshaw says cats live in a partly feral state and are not quite domesticated. But just what is that builds those powerful bonds between cat owners and their furry friends?

It turns out cats treat humans as though they were the mama cat. Read more. CBS News

Bradshaw goes on to say, ”cats now face possibly more hostility than at any time during the last two centuries.” No word if most of that hostility is generated from a certain North Idaho blogger whose initials are DFO.