left or right pawed .. ?
According to a Queens University Belfast study, female domestic cats tend to preferentially use their right front paw while male cats more often rely upon their left front paw.
“Our results suggest that there are two distinct populations of paw preference in the cat that cluster very strongly around the animals’ sex,” said Deborah Wells, who led the study.
Researchers engaged the cats in various tasks, involving tuna and a fabric mouse, to reach this conclusion. The study findings were accepted for publication in the journal Animal Behavior.
