A groundbreaking new study has discovered that cats are nice and they enjoy human contact.

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The research, conducted at Oregon State University and published in Behavioural Processes, concludes that cats enjoy human contact even more than eating. Which I guess is more than you could say for dogs, bless them.

The team of researchers looked at 50 cats from shelters and people’s homes and deprived them of food, human contact, scent and toys for several hours. They then introduced these things back to the cats to see what they would choose. A majority of the cats chose human contact each time.

So it’s not really a landmark study as it only looked at a small group of cats. However, the authors of the study said:

While it has been suggested that cat sociality exists on a continuum, perhaps skewed toward independency, we have found that 50% of cats tested preferred interaction with the social stimulus even though they had a direct choice between social interaction with a human and their other most preferred stimuli from the three other stimulus categories.

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I’m still not entirely sure that you could outright conclude that all cats like people and are ‘nice’. I currently live with a guy who has a cat that literally spends all day waiting on the stairs so that she can swipe at me with her claws. I’m on the dog team, all the way.

Dogs are just the best. Not convinced? Watch this and get back to me.