Is your cat really happy?

Would your feline companion choose you again? A Calgary, Alberta, animal health technology company, Sylvester.ai, has developed an app called Tably that uses the cell phone’s camera to tell whether a feline is feeling pain. The app looks at ear and head position, eye-narrowing, muzzle tension, and how whiskers change, to detect distress. A 2019 study published in Scientific Reports found that the so-called ‘feline grimace scale,’ or FGS, is a valid and reliable tool for acute pain assessment in cats. Tably is based on the FGS. A scientist can score expressions both in real-time or from photographs based on the presence or prominence of things like whisker changes, ear positions, and more. Cat owners should also look at their pet’s whole body, including the tail, for clues about their well-being, said Alice Potter the RSPCA. “Cats that are worried or scared will hold that tail really tight and tense to them. And then aside from that, there’s also just thinking about their behavior in terms of are they eating, drinking, toileting, sleeping like they usually do?” For a quickie, simply use your smartphone camera to take a picture of your feline friend and the app will use machine learning to decode its mood.

 

Are you happy?

To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot, listen a lot and not try to understand her at all.

Some cause happiness wherever they go. Others whenever they go.

How do cats resolve an argument?
They hiss and make up.

My boss told me to have a good day. So I went home.

 

August 27th Birthdays

1986 – Kayla Elwell, 1986 – Alexa Pena Vega, 1970 – Chandra Wilson, 1962 – Yolanda Adams

551 – Confucius, 1980 – Aaron Paul, 1993 – Blake Jenner, 1982 – Patrick Adams

 

Morning Motivator:

A good conscience is a continual Christmas – Benjamin Franklin

 

Smile Kitty, Kitty