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Dog Staring Contest Ends in Stalemate
Dog Staring Contest Ends in Stalemate
by Scott Friedstein, FluffPo Correspondent
It was just another quiet Sunday afternoon in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park.
That is, until Rosie the St. Bernard showed up.
“She’s Gavin’s longtime foe,” explains Kristen Arnold, referring to her Lab-Chihuahua mix.
Though the two have faced off before, witnesses tell The Fluffington Post that this was their most dramatic match yet.
“They have these really intense staring contests,” says parkgoer Phil DeBoer. “This one was different, though. Quite frankly, we weren’t sure how it was going to end.”
The rules were the same as always: First one to break concentration, loses. Fortunately, both pups were distracted by the same flying frisbee.
“Can’t say that’s ever happened before,” says Arnold. “Gavin was pretty disappointed.”
Bruised egos notwithstanding, a rematch is already rumored.
“Oh, it’ll happen,” says DeBoer. “I’m betting my entire Sunday on it.”
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STUDY: Cats Prefer to Watch Human Videos on the Internet
STUDY: Cats Prefer to Watch Human Videos on the Internet
It’s a well documented fact that cat videos power the Internet (a study from broadband research company Sandvine found that after Netflix, cat videos account for the greatest amount of Internet traffic). But what do cats like to watch?
Until recently it was assumed that cats, when they cared about the Internet at all, would mostly just read financial websites and brush up on their Sun Tzu on Kindle. Turns out, however, cats aren’t all that different from us.
A new study out of Columbia University has found that what cats really like to do online is watch human videos.
“We found that nothing lights up the pleasure center of a cat’s brain like a video of a person doing something stupid,” said researcher Todd Wachowski. “In fact, once we dug into the stats, we found that half of the views on that video of Brian Williams singing Rapper’s Delight are from cats.”
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