Music Your Cat Would Prefer when Going Under the Knife

In an article in Time.com today, it was revealed the kind of music cats would prefer when being neutered. Heck! I don't think I myself know what kind of music I would prefer when going to see a doctor whether it be for a cold or something else.



Come to think of it, clinics and hospitals are usually void of music perhaps considering the fact that different people prefer different kinds of music.

In an experiment detailed this week in the Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery, veterinary clinicians at the University of Lisbon studied how 12 female pet cats responded to different genres of music, while undergoing neutering.

To gauge the animals’ responses, the clinicians recorded their respiratory rates and pupil diameters, which are an indication of their depth of anesthesia.

During the experiment, the cats were fitted with headphones and then exposed to two minutes of silence — as a control — before listening to portions of Barber’s “Adagio for Strings (Opus 11),” Natalie Imbruglia’s “Torn” and AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck.”

“The results showed that the cats were in a more relaxed state (as determined by their lower values for respiratory rate and pupil diameter) under the influence of classical music, with the pop music producing intermediate values,” reports Science Daily.

And perhaps unsurprisingly, listening to AC/DC while being spayed induced “a more stressful situation.”

But this study is based on female cats- the more sophisticated gender. Perhaps male cats would still prefer AC/DC.