Cats distinguish owner's smell from stranger's, study finds

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg5v11dv29o

Domestic cats can tell the difference between the smell of their owner and that of a stranger, a new study suggests.

The study by Tokyo University of Agriculture found cats spent significantly longer sniffing tubes containing the odours of unknown people compared to tubes containing their owner's smell.

This suggests cats can discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar humans based on their odour, the researchers say, but that it is unclear whether they can identify specific people.

[Midnight Writer]

1. Duh. Cats have a very strong sense of smell, comparable to dogs. And they bond tightly with their owners.

Of course they know the smell of their owners.

[Dem2theMax]

2. One little change.

'Of course they know the smell of their servants.'