Cats prefer cat music
I suppose it makes sense
Many people are convinced that their pets like the same kind of music they do. At the very least, many people believe that cats will find classical music soothing. But do they really?
A group of researchers recently set about to answer this question. They put together a list of criteria for determining whether or not a cat was enjoying a bit of music. Did the cat approach the speakers, or hiss and arch its back?
The researchers then took a guess at what kinds of music a cat might like. They chose to create a piece of music which operated at a higher frequency than most human music, because cats have excellent hearing well above the range of our own ears. They also chose a tempo which was "based on purring."
The cats proved to be much more positively inclined towards the cat music than the human classical music. But surely I can't be the only one who's disappointed that the article didn't include a clip of said cat music?