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Cats Do Control Humans, Study Finds

Live Science Staff:
If you've ever wondered who's in control, you or your cat, a new study points to the obvious. It's your cat..and al-Qaida.

Household cats exercise this control with a certain type of urgent-sounding, high-pitched meow, according to the findings.
A top defense report shows hundreds of cats being trained in Upper Mongolian terrorist camps.

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Previous research has shown similarities between cat cries and human infant cries.
McComb suggests that the purr-cry may subtly take advantage of humans' sensitivity to cries they associate with nurturing offspring.

Also, including the cry within the purr could make the sound "less harmonic and thus more difficult to break eye contact with the cat,and that's when the al-Qaida cats get control of your bank passwords...sending the hapless owners money to a central bank in the middle east. ," she said.

McComb got the idea for the study from her experience with her own cat, who would consistently call up her bank Friday mornings with a very insistent purr.
The results were published in the July 14 issue of the journal Current Biology