Karen McComb, a researcher from the University of Sussex, was inspired by her own cat, Pepo, who continually woke her up in the mornings with an “insistent and rather annoying” purr that reliably motivated her to get up and feed him.
Unlike regular, low frequency purring, further study revealed that this “solicitation purr” contained an embedded sound with a similar frequency to a baby’s cry; a sound that humans have an inherent bias to respond to.
She and her colleagues played recordings of these purrs to human volunteers, who found them to be “more urgent and harder to ignore” than regular purring. Cats have a vocal way of manipulating their owners into doing their bidding, according to a study.
Cat's purr manipulates owners
Source: How your cat’s purr manipulates you, BBC News, July 13 2009
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Hi, I am Turkish. This cat’s real name ” Cat of Van”. Van is country of Turkey. Thank you for write my opinion.
Cool, thanks! I looked it up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Van#Van_pattern_in_the_Turkish_Van_cat