Welcome to the “dog days” of summer, an expression that actually has nothing to do with old dogs lying around in the heat. Rather, it refers to the brightest star in the night sky: Sirius, the “dog star,” which is part of the Canis Major constellation and rises with the sun from early July to mid-August.
Regardless, we’re still using the start of dog days as an excuse to share cat videos. In a recent study, researchers strapped video cameras to 16 cats and let them do their thing. This is what they found.
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