Whether they care about that is another matter. ;-)

Whether they care about that is another matter. ;-)

Originally shared by Rob Jongschaap

BBC - Earth - Your cat can pick up on how you are feeling

' ... New research has found the first strong evidence that cats are sensitive to human emotional gestures. ... '

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20151015-your-cat-can-pick-up-on-how-you-are-feeling?ocid=fbert

Man’s other best friend: domestic cats (F. silvestriscatus) and their discrimination of human emotion cues | SpringerLink

'... Abstract

The ability of domestic dogs (C. lupusfamaliaris) to follow and attend to human emotion expressions is well documented. It is unknown whether domestic cats (F. silvestriscatus) possess similar abilities. Because cats belong to the same order (Carnivora), but did not evolve to live in complex social groups, research with them enables us to tease apart the influence of social structure versus domestication processes on the capacity to recognize human communicative cues, such as emotions. Two experiments were conducted to determine the extent to which domestic cats discriminate between human emotion cues. The first experiment presented cats with facial and postural cues of happiness and anger from both an unfamiliar experimenter and their familiar owner in the absence of vocal cues. The second experiment presented cats with vocal cues of human emotion through a positively or negatively charged conversation between an experimenter and owner. Domestic cats were only modestly sensitive to emotion, particularly when displayed by their owner, suggesting that a history of human interaction alone may not be sufficient to shape such abilities in domestic cats.
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http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10071-015-0927-4
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20151015-your-cat-can-pick-up-on-how-you-are-feeling?ocid=fbert