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July 17, 2004

Music For Cats

It should come as no surprise that there are videos and such for your pets. There's a company producing "Music For Cats" for their listening pleasure. What I found amusing is that an arts critic for the Guardian (UK) is actually reviewing these records:


The people behind Music For Cats & Friends Vol. 2 (I missed out on volume one) seem to have the best intentions alongside their commercial one and are backed up by a study from the not-at-all-dubious sounding Vienna Veterinary University. I won't bore you with the details of the empirical evidence but the basic conclusions are: cats have natural rhythm, they like an insistent beat and eight out of 10 who express a preference prefer deep tones over high-pitched squawking.

So, based on that, felines would choose up-tempo Tom Waits over Geddy Lee singing one of Rush's power ballads. Given their hearing range, I'd imagine dogs would be more appreciative of the Canadian trio and would welcome the opportunity to sing along to excerpts from Hemispheres.


My cats have no preference but I do note that Britney puts them to sleep... Me too, actually...

Posted by Jeff Soyer at July 17, 2004 01:32 PM
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