{"id":824,"date":"2025-10-01T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/?p=824"},"modified":"2025-06-05T22:27:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T22:27:58","slug":"cat_smell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/cat_smell\/","title":{"rendered":"Your cat probably knows your smell"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_825\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-825\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/environment\/cat-knows-your-smell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-825 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screen-Shot-2025-06-05-at-3.20.44-PM-300x168.png\" alt=\"Cat Smell\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screen-Shot-2025-06-05-at-3.20.44-PM-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screen-Shot-2025-06-05-at-3.20.44-PM-1024x575.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screen-Shot-2025-06-05-at-3.20.44-PM-768x431.png 768w, https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screen-Shot-2025-06-05-at-3.20.44-PM-1536x862.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screen-Shot-2025-06-05-at-3.20.44-PM.png 2014w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-825\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silas Stein\/picture alliance via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Domestic cats react differently to their owner\u2019s natural odor versus a stranger&#8217;s.<br \/>\nThe team from Tokyo University of Agriculture in Japan investigated whether domestic cats can just use smell to distinguish between familiar and unfamiliar humans. They presented 30 domestic cats with plastic tubes containing swabs. These swabs had been rubbed under the armpit, behind the ear, and between the toes of either their owner or a human that they had never met&#8230;.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/environment\/cat-knows-your-smell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Domestic cats react differently to their owner\u2019s natural odor versus a stranger&#8217;s. The team from Tokyo University of Agriculture in Japan investigated whether domestic cats can just use smell to distinguish between familiar and unfamiliar humans. They presented 30 domestic cats with plastic tubes containing swabs. These swabs had been rubbed under the armpit, behind &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pets","tag-cat-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":826,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}