Researchers have found that cats' facial expressions don't impact their chances of getting adopted.
The researchers were curious about feline facial expressions and how they impacted dogs' chances of finding a home.
Shelter dogs which raise their eyebrows more were much more likely to get adopted.
This led the researchers to wanting to see if the same held true for shelter cats - and according to their study, published in Applied Animal Behaviour, it didn't. Using a system to track every possible facial expression for a cat, the researchers found the more facially expressive cats didn't do any better when it came to adoption .
Instead what seemed to work for cats was rubbing up against things. Those that spent their time rubbing toys and other objects had a 30% higher adoption rate.
The researchers believe that dogs evolved to raise their brows in order to better appeal to humans over their millenia-long domestication. Cats simply did not have the same pressure on them.
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