Study suggests cats are capable of learning their own names

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Most cat owners would tell you that their furry little friends definitely know their own names. As someone with a cat, I suppose I'd be inclined to believe that the animal I have been calling by name for over a decade does truly know what I've labeled him, but science has never been totally on board with that notion.

Unlike past research efforts conducted with dogs, there hasn't been a ton of scientific effort put into determining whether cats are capable of understanding how names work. Whether any cats can tell the difference between their names and the names of other animals in the same home, or even random words, was something scientists from the Sophia University in Tokyo wanted to find out.

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