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Cats Think About Us? You May Be Surprised

             Cats Think About Us? You May Be Surprised Since  cats  first got their adorable claws into us about 9,500 years ago, humans have had a love affair with felines. Today more than 80 million cats reside in U.S. homes, with an estimated three cats for every dog on the planet. (Watch a  video about the secret lives of cats. ) Yet there's still a lot we don't know about our feline friends—including what they think of their owners. John Bradshaw is a  cat-behavior expert at the University of Bristol  and the author of the new book  Cat Sense . After observing pet cats for several years, he's come to an intriguing conclusion: They don't really understand us the way dogs do. Bradshaw recently shared some of his insights with National Geographic. How did you get into cat behavior? For the first 20 years of my career I studied olfactory [smell] behavior in invertebrates. I've always been...