I needed a late Monday excuse for cat blogging and found it with this item from the world of science.
With cats, the team from Queen's University in Belfast concluded that females tend to favour their right paw when trying to extract a treat from a jar while toms prefer their left, with the same gender divide applying to dogs.
Fish tend to have a dominant eye when looking at potential predators, with right-eyed specimens circling threats clockwise and their left-eyed counterparts moving anti-clockwise.
The team's report in the New Scientist even suggests that dogs wag their tails to the right when they're relaxed and to the left when they feel agitated.
Science you can do in the comfort of your own home!
Dogs:
See if Fido wags his tail to his left or right. If he's like most dogs, furious wagging to the right means he is relaxed and ready to approach whatever he sees; if he wags to the left he might prefer to withdraw.
Cats and rodents:
Give your cat, rat or hamster a jar with a tasty treat and see which paw they use to try and extract it. If your pet is a cat, expect toms to use their left paws and the females to use their right.
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