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    "headline": "Bootsy Bear the cat comes running whenever her owner sings her favorite song, tops Reddit’s r/aww",
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    "articleBody": "Bootsy Bear does not come when she is called. She comes when she is sung to. A short video of the cat strolling in, pausing for a detour through the kitchen and then arriving on cue for her favorite song topped Reddit’s r/aww on November 10, ranking No. 1 on the forum hours after it was posted. The clip’s caption says it all: “Bootsy Bear always comes out from wherever she is when I sing her favorite song.” The owner explained the habit in the comments. “I took her over from my mom three years ago and started singing that song to her,” they wrote. A perfectly timed meow Viewers fixated on the details. Several pointed out the “fake ignore” at the start, the casual stop in the kitchen and the way Bootsy timed her final approach for a jump and a single meow, landing “perfectly placed in the song,” as one put it. Once she reached her owner, she started kneading. “She is quite the biscuit maker,” the owner confirmed, later adding that she is “an absolute sweetheart (when she’s not demanding full control of the apartment).” Commenters recognized the tune as “Rainbow Connection,” and the thread quickly filled with tributes to Jim Henson, who first sang it as Kermit the Frog. Others shared their own cats’ songs: one person’s cat came only for “You Are My Sunshine,” another’s for “Amazing Grace,” and several readers said their own cats wandered over to the phone while the clip played. One person put it plainly: “You’ve figured out the cat code.” Do cats really know our voices? Science backs Bootsy up, at least partly. In a 2013 study published in the journal Animal Cognition, University of Tokyo researchers Atsuko Saito and Kazutaka Shinozuka visited 20 domestic cats in their own homes to see how they responded when human voices, including their owner’s and strangers’, called out their names. The cats could pick out their owner’s voice from the strangers’. But how they showed it fit the aloof stereotype. Most responded with orienting behavior, turning their heads and moving their ears, rather than with communicative signals such as tail movements or meowing. In the university’s own words, the work confirmed the image of the “aloof cat” while showing there is real social skill behind it. That makes Bootsy’s response notable. She did not just swivel an ear; she crossed the apartment, joined in vocally and settled into kneading, a behavior kittens use while nursing and that many adult cats keep as a sign of comfort, often while purring. Why a song might work better than a name There is a plausible reason a familiar song beats a called name. A song is longer, has a steady rhythm and melody, and in Bootsy’s case has been paired with her owner’s attention for three years. Cats can learn names and associate specific sounds with routines, so a tune repeated over years can become a reliable cue for affection. No study has tested Bootsy’s playlist, so treat that as an educated guess rather than a finding. The song behind the cat “Rainbow Connection” was written by Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher for The Muppet Movie in 1979, sung by Henson as Kermit alone on a log with a banjo. It reached No. 25 on the US singles chart that November, earned an Oscar nomination for best original song and was added to the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry in 2020. Forty-seven years on, it is apparently also the only reliable way to get Bootsy Bear out of the kitchen. Cats keep proving they communicate more than they let on. Our recent guide explains what a cat’s raised tail is signaling, and Reddit’s cat forums have also been sharing adopted strays that fluffed up into puffballs. The top request in the thread was more footage: one reader asked for “at least 50 more videos of Bootsy Bear coming out to hear the song as proof … for science.” Further reading Wikipedia: Rainbow Connection PubMed: Vocal recognition of owners by domestic cats (Felis catus) Illustrative image. Image: Tilman Piesk, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. How we work.",
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