That sounds like an interesting result, but I wonder about how such studies were done. Might it be that attractive people are more likely to have certain types of mannerisms or other traits? Did anyone go as far as making people wear clothing or makeup that made them more or less attractive and then putting them in front of the animals?
That doesn't reflect my experience - unless you mean "attractive" by the animal's definition, which in case of a cat might be "someone who feeds me reliably twice a day and cuddles me from time to time".
