Study: Cats DO Know Their Names and Really ARE Ignoring You

Did you just get snubbed by your cat?

Probably.

We all want to give our cats the benefit of the doubt but the chances are they know their own names and are just ignoring our calls, a study suggests.

A group of researchers from Japan recently determined this by conducting a series of experiments over the course of three years to see how 77 cats would respond to their names.

What they found confirms our sneaky suspicion. Cats do know when you are calling them, they are just choosing not to respond, CNN noted.

"Their lack of response may be caused by their low motivation level to interact with humans, or their feelings at the time of the experiment," said Atsuko Saito, first author of the research paper.

This is not the only discovery researchers made.