Good news for cats

I learned a new word today.

Smize.

I'm told it means to smile with your eyes. Invented by the catwalk model Tyra Banks in 2009.

Acknowledgement to Rhys Blakeley, Science Correspondent of the Times for this information.

Apparently researchers from the University of Sussex's School of Psychology did some experiments with one of their researchers smizing at cats and seeing which of them responded. They discovered that if you 'slow motion blink' at a cat, it slow motion blinks back.

This was published in a journal called Scientific Reports.

I really don't know what to make of this incredibly useless and fatuous piece of "information". Does it work on owls?

These people should get out more.