Marieke Gartner, one of the researchers involved in the study, told me that it was "a pretty far stretch" to suggest that your cat actually wants to kill you. She said: "Cats have different personalities, and they ended up living with us because it was a mutually beneficial situation. Some cats are more independent, some are quite loving. It just depends on the individual. It's not that cats are self centered. It's that they are a more solitary or semisolitary species." Yes, but are they secretly harboring ill-feeling toward us? Gartner explained: "Cats don't want to bump you off, but people often don't know how to treat them and then are surprised by their behavior."
这项研究中的一个研究员高德纳告诉我说,研究结果几乎足够表明,你的猫其实很想杀了你。她说到:“不同的猫也有不同的个性,有些之所以和我们人类住在一起是因为这是一个双赢的选择。有些猫比较独立,有些猫很亲和,这取决于猫自身。并不是说猫都以自我为中心,只是它们是更喜欢独居的物种。”但是它们对我们心怀不满吗?高德纳解释到:“猫并不是想杀了你,只是人们不知道应该怎么对待猫,所以很容易对它们的行为感到惊讶。”