Does the presence of a cat affect the shock received from a cowherd experiment?

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The discussion centers on the effects of holding a cat while touching a wire in a cowherd experiment, specifically whether the cat would receive the shock instead of the human. Participants express skepticism about this claim, emphasizing that all individuals in a similar experiment experienced some level of shock. The consensus is that the resistance of the human body, influenced by footwear and other factors, would still result in the human feeling the shock, contrary to the initial assertion about the cat absorbing it.

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Im not sure if this is really true, because I haven't had a chance to try it out, but its something I have heard of. So you tell me if that's how it should be.

So when you touch the wire of a cowherd, you get a little punch. But as I've heard, if you hold on to another person, or in this particular experiment a cat, and then touch the wire, only the cat gets shocked.

Is this really the case? Why?

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I don't like the idea of you hurting a cat. So I can't advocate your experiment and would prefer you do it on consenting humans.

I would point out that everyone experiences the shock to some degree:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJRtdbxXwSM
 
I love cats. I have one myself and I would never hurt one. Its just that the particular experiment I heard of consisted of a cat at the end of the line.

But as everybody got shocked in that line in the video, I doupt that the occasion with the cat is true. I figured that if the human contestants would have thick boots or something with high resistance, the shock would be a tad smaller with current only going from hand to hand, and then to the ground from the cat, making the overall resistance pretty big. But I could see no reason for humans not feeling anything at all.
Thanks for the vid.
 

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