Are You Petting Your Cat Wrong? || Tumble #science #podcast #catscience #research #pets

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]practical like information that probably everybody wants to know, right? Is like how can I make you know my cat enjoy petting more? And so what they would do is in one study they had you know they had identified four different parts of the body and then they just had people I think it was the their owners pet them and they would note whether or not the cat showed positive and negative behaviors when they were handled. And basically that study found that cats preferred to be petted on the face though the like area between their ears and their eyes so the forehead and the cheeks and they least like being handled on the what's called the caudal region or that's the base of the tail. So that's the lower back right where the tail meets the body. So that was cats least favorite place to be petted.