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How do cats know when their owner is home: intuition or intelligence
10.05.2023 13:44
Every cat owner has a few stories to tell about how their pet, right on schedule, comes out to the door to greet one of the family members who is rushing home.
The stories are entertaining, but monotonous. But everyone wants to know how domestic animals manage to do it - without a clock or calendar.
We'll tell you what helps domestic cats determine when their owner has arrived home.
Time
In fact, cats are not so irresponsible. They control the situation with the help of their "biological clock". In addition, pets have a good memory, which allows pets to remember the owner's daily routine and even adjust to it.
Signals
Nature itself helps cats. Animals navigate by the movement of the sun - sunset or sunrise. In addition, street or home lighting helps, as well as their own habits, such as hunger and eating at the same time. All this indicates that the owner will soon be home.
Sense of smell
Cats have 80 million receptors that help them distinguish smells. Only dogs have more – almost 300 million. Thanks to this, pets react to smells even at a distance of up to 30 meters.
Hearing
This ability is better developed in cats than in humans. Animals distinguish different sounds that they get used to hearing during the owner's daily activities. This could be the jingle of keys, the movement of a car, the creak of a gate, or the clicking of heels.
Thus, there is no mysticism, but only sheer observation helps cats anticipate the arrival of their owner or family members home.
