Warmth. Cats become emotionally attached to their owners. A 2013 study out of the University of Tokyo found that cats are able to distinguish their owners' voices from a strangers' voices. Cats can be affectionate towards their owners, seeking out our company and purringcontentedly as they sit or sleep beside us. And, let's be honest, a warm lap occasionally. If Kitty gazes at you adoringly with her big golden eyes, pines when you are apart, then greets you with a symphony of operatic purrs when you return, you might find yourself wondering if she’s been struck by the love bug. Much like Marmite, people seem to either love or hate cats. Cats express love for their owners in a number of ways. While some of these may be a bit obvious, other tokens of their affection have some hidden meaning behind them and you may have overlooked them not even realizing. You may notice Yet, as most cat owners will attest, cats do love us. Because cats are such smart, sentient creatures, they can have a long list of likes (and, perhaps, an equally long list of dislikes!)!) Why Do Cats Sleep With Their Owners. T his means in theory, dogs love their humans more than cats do. Here’s a list of 9 signs your cat actually loves you: There’s a known fact that cats are predators and they use their senses a lot more than we humans do. While hearing is the sense that prevails more than anything else when it comes down to the way cats recognize their owners, they actually use a combination of all their senses to find out who’s who. There are a number of reasons why Cats like to snuggle up with their owners rather then sleeping in their own bed. If we want to determine whether cats love their owners, the experimental design should account for these inherent differences between cats and dogs. While cats can be aloof, they also definitely seem to have favorite people that they like to curl up with more than others. Cats never really needed to read human faces, so unlike dogs, they're not very good at it. Researchers at Oregon State University recently published a study in Current Biology in which they examined the bonds formed between cats and their humans. Cats, on the other hand, were not bred to follow our commands. Yet, as most cat owners will attest, cats do love us. Have you ever wondered if your cat loves you? In fact, 65% of both the kitten group and the adult cat group were found to form secure attachments to their owners. Love may be defined as an intense feeling of affection and lots of us have this for our animal companions. Cats, on the other hand, were not bred to follow our commands. Ibhahim's first post, Why Do Cats Meow at Humans, can be found here. They do this because their body don’t need to work as hard to keep warm. Unlike dogs, cats domesticated themselves, because it benefitted them to hang around agricultural sites and catch the rodents within. Any cat owner will tell you they do, but could we be exercising wishful thinking, projecting our own emotions onto our cats, or do they feel love like we do? Cats really do walk by themselves and do not need their owners to feel secure and safe, a new study has shown. But cats do actually show love … If we want to determine whether cats love their owners, the experimental design should account for these inherent differences between cats and dogs. Sleeping next to a human is indeed a very warm place for them. They found that cats have the capacity to form attachments to their caregivers in the same way that children and dogs do. To many owners this signifies that their cat loves them and this may be true. There's a misconception about cats not showing love to their owners, whereas dogs are very affectionate and demonstrate this love in various ways. The cats studied generally ignored recordings of strangers calling their names, but they twitched their ears to more closely listen when they heard their owners' voices. Most people see cats as independent pets that are pretty aloof when it comes to their owners. This is a second guest post about cats by Ibrahim Raidhan. Cats have a reputation for not really loving their owners, instead just using them to get food and shelter.