NEW YORK (AP) Hey Kitty! Yes, you. A new study suggests household cats can respond to the sound of their own names.
No surprise to you or most cat owners, right? But Japanese scientists said today that theyve provided the first experimental evidence that cats can distinguish between words that we people say.
So youre kind of like dogs, whose communication with people has been studied a lot more, and whove been shown to recognize hundreds of words if theyre highly trained. Sorry if the comparison offends you, Kitty.
Atsuko Saito of Sophia University in Tokyo says…
