{"id":3114,"date":"2018-12-04T03:51:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T11:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3114"},"modified":"2018-12-04T03:51:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T11:51:25","slug":"newsday-tuesday-cats-on-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3114","title":{"rendered":"Newsday Tuesday \u2013 Cats on Display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3047\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mollieRomeo-the-Russian-Blue-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mollieRomeo-the-Russian-Blue-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mollieRomeo-the-Russian-Blue-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mollieRomeo-the-Russian-Blue-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mollieRomeo-the-Russian-Blue.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I was all set to make this post about the cat show circuit and cats bred for show, but while I was conducting the research, something else caught my attention. I came across this title: \u201cTen Psychological Reasons Internet Cats Are so Popular,\u201d and I couldn\u2019t resist. That\u2019s something I\u2019ve wondered about for years. And it\u2019s something that makes me happy\u2014happy. I love the idea that cats are coming out all over the Internet as cute, funny, adorable, sweet, interesting <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2997\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/catcafecamarillo2CUTE-e1539001289765-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/catcafecamarillo2CUTE-e1539001289765-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/catcafecamarillo2CUTE-e1539001289765-375x500.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/catcafecamarillo2CUTE-e1539001289765.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>creatures, and that they\u2019re capturing the interest of millions of people. I have a dream that this will spark the desire in thousands more people to adopt one or more cats and\/or to jump on the bandwagon and help rescue those that have been abandoned and forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>This article does more than explain why cat videos are so popular, it gives us a fascinating peek into the human-cat relationship. I\u2019ve read a lot of articles on the topic, but this one touches on concepts I haven\u2019t seen explored. For example, it goes into why cats are so difficult to train\u2014presenting some ideas I haven\u2019t considered; why they do some of the things they do\u2014sit in front of the TV, for example, get up on the counter over and over and over again even when we\u2019ve done everything to deter them; and what some of their gestures actually mean. Read this post if you dare. You might begin to look at your cat in an entirely different light.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/listverse.com\/2015\/08\/09\/10-psychological-reasons-internet-cats-are-so-popular\">http:\/\/listverse.com\/2015\/08\/09\/10-psychological-reasons-internet-cats-are-so-popular<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was all set to make this post about the cat show circuit and cats bred for show, but while I was conducting the research, something else caught my attention. I came across this title: \u201cTen Psychological Reasons Internet Cats &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3114\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3115,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114\/revisions\/3115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}