The study concluded that dogs love people more than cats love people. They tested it by introducing new people to new dogs and cats and measured the saliva produced by the animals. The dogs produced more saliva than the cats did, adjusted for weight of the animals, when introduced to new people. A comparison in human terms would be introducing new people to people and seeing how well they like the new people. Cats are like introverted people and dogs are like extraverted people. Extraverts like new people and get excited with just about anyone. Cats don't like new things at all and will only show affection with well known people. From the introvert perspective, new people will probably go away, so why would you get attached to them.
Why would you value love that is spent so freely on you versus love that builds over time. The love that is created quickly, goes away quickly. I have been in the house with the cats, three of them for almost three months now. I was a curiosity for the first month and they introduced me into their private rituals slowly at the end of two months occasionally they would sleep on my bed. Now at the end of three months, one cat jumps on my lap and then tells me that I need to lie down so she can sit on my chest and sleep with her head near my neck. Where she purrs and drools on me. If I pick her up and pet her she will stay for almost three minutes, without me holding her.
A dog loves you because you are their Master, the Alpha in the pack or just more senior to them. When a cat seeks you out and kneads your body and snuggles up to you it means that given all the other choices it has, it wants to be there with you.
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