Cats Really Do Love People.

• Position: ANIMALS - Brief article

Oh sure, cats pretend to like you. They will purr until you bring out their food, then roll their eyes, walk away, and forget you even exist. At least that's their reputation. But it turns out that many cats actually like people. In the first ever study of its kind, researchers at Oregon State University offered 38 cats a choice between food, a toy, an interesting smell, or attention from a human. While 37 percent of the cats preferred food to anything else, 50 percent chose the company of humans over every other possibility. (Eleven percent liked toys...