Did You Know? Your Pet Is A Snob About Your Taste In Music
You gotta remember two things to make a great song: a rhythm that’s close to your heartbeat, and of course, frequencies that the human ear can receive. There are plenty of sounds outside of the frequencies we can follow. As for music that is too fast or too slow, too high, or too low, they’re too close to the edge. We’ll never remember those.
Cats and dogs have their own tastes. And believe or not, they know the idea of music. But the same rules follow: rhythm and frequency. It’s just a lot different from what we’re used to hearing.
Studies have shown that cats hate human music. (no wonder). Cats hearings systems can receive a higher frequency than us. They’re probably opera fans. At the same time, pop/rock/hip-hop/disco are probably just toooo damn slow, tooooooo low for them. Next time when you’re singing to your cat, it’s more like a slo-mo version of you in their ears. Not everyone’s a fan of autotune.
As for dogs, it kinda depends. Different dog, different species, different body types, different sizes, and of course, different ears. Every dog has their own favorite genre according to their heartbeat and frequencies. However, large K-9s like the Labrador, German Shepherd, or Great Dane has very similar hearing qualities as an adult male. So, they might be able to bob their heads with you.
Regardless, just stop singing to your pets no matter what. Because they just don’t hear the same sh*t!
Past studies have pointed out that cats would prefer more Bach, Mozart, Chopin over Led Zeppelin, or Britney Spears among genres such as classical, rock, and pop. Man, they are classy.
However, the way researchers found out was by attempting to treat cat “patients” with different music and see which music made them more cooperative. Classical music seemed to tame them in the end, but we’re not 100% sure that’s what they love due to how the experiment was conducted.
Another study was done differently. After playing a bunch of music to cats, researchers recorded how cats responded to the speakers based on genres. Eventually, they found out that cats always leaned closer to the boomboxes whenever classical music was on. I mean, it’s definitely interesting enough for them. But still, we just don’t have enough evidence to conclude that’s what cats love. (They might have just wanted to turn the damn noise off)
On the other hand, the same researcher mentioned above only did these music experiments on cats. Why not dogs too? The boy didn’t have enough funding. He just didn’t bother. Hmmm… Sounds like the researcher himself was a goddam cat.
