Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast this week coming to you live from the London Podcast Festival!
My name is Darren Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anna Tyshinski, Andrew Huntsman Murray and James Harkin,
and once again we have gathered round the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last seven days,
and in a particular order, here we go!
Starting with fact number one, and that is Anna.
My fact this week is that researchers have concluded that cats don't like cat people.
I'm really sorry.
Scientifically speaking, the more you like cats, the less they like you.
But I would say I have a cat, and I wouldn't say I'm a cat person,
and my cat definitely doesn't like me, so could it be that cats just don't like any people?
Sometimes they're just good judges of character, James, but it's actually not that.
So this is a study that was done at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home with a bunch of universities involved,
and it got 119 different people to interact with a cat in a room.
And then it looked at various things about the people, like their personality type, are they neurotic,
are they agreeable people, you know, you fill in a questionnaire and say all that stuff about yourself.
And it asked them, have you ever owned a cat?
How long have you owned a cat for?
Do you like cats?
Turns out the best predictor of how much a cat is going to like you is the number of years that you've lived with a cat,