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Study confirms what all cat owners know

Any cat person will tell you that the most extraordinary honor a cat can bestow upon a human is the slow blink.

Gail P Sherman
Oct 29, 2024
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Any cat person will tell you that the most extraordinary honor a cat can bestow upon a human is the slow blink. Receiving a slow blink from your own cat is always lovely, but getting a slow blink from someone else's cat is magic. Conversely, slow blinking at your cat, only to be met with a hard stare, is a blow to any cat lover's ego.…

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