Hi this caught my eye recently regarding all us people owned by cats!
A survey comparing cat and dog owners showed that cat owners were more likely to be upmarket, well educated, physically active, socially active, more high tech and more modern. Just what we all knew anyway
Welcome to the ongoing saga of Marisha and her inappropriate peeing and defecation episode. From the last post our investigation has given us loads of clues.
From all the evidence so far it seems that this cat has suffered some sort of fright associated with the litter tray. This was probably something coming through the letter [...]
After the stress related posts I thought I would run small set of blog posts helping you to act as a mini CSI investigator for your own cat problems. In the E-book we actually give a lot of clinical examples to show how we actually apply the knowledge of cat behavior to many different situations.
Marisha [...]
We have covered in the last few posts the issues of cat stress and as mentioned the most important point of all this is to teach you all how to recognise a stressed, and remember this can be very subtle.
So learn all you can and above all try to get a normal pattern of behavior [...]
Well a quick post on the cat stress theme before going out to the day job after a bank holiday weekend in the UK. I heard a very good analogy the other day about stress in cats. This is to think about the cat as a pair of scales, like the kitchen scales for weighing [...]
Hi all just a quick post today as I am at the day job looking after some of my feline patients.
Please always consider what impact any life style changes will have on your cat(s) . With many cats prevention is so important. Over the years it has astounded me how many cats cope with [...]
So how do you know if your cat is feeling stressed. Well as usual the clues are there you just have to understand “Cat Talk” and look for them. Remember there are no more blind than those who will not see..”
Look at your cat’s body language, look at position of the eyes, ears, tail paws, [...]
In the cat often the only way of recognising stress is to identify changes in your cats behavior. Thus the importance of knowing and having at least some understanding of cat behavior A good reason to buy and actually read our behavior book
This can often mean recognising excessive behavior patterns such as [...]
This article caught my eye in one of the vet journals on feline medicine I was reading as it related to many of the behaviourally challenged cats we are seeing. It comes from FAB the Feline Advisory Bureau a collection of experts all dedicated to the well being and welfare of the cat. It also [...]
The most fundamental thing we teach all our clients is to understand your cat. You MUST see your world from the cats point of view. Once you can genuinely start to do this your relationship with your cat will be immeasurably improved. This is especially important in cases of problem feline behavior!!
The problem is society [...]