A Michael Broad Blog
This is today’s cat behavior problem. It is quite a tricky one: Miss A has two cats: Freddie and Freda – one male and one female. They have been with each other since birth and are 5 years old (amended due to Ruth’s comment – see below!). Each has their own litter box. The …
This is a fairly typical cat behavior problem. The question is based on a real situation. The Cat Behavior Problem Miss C bought a kitten two weeks ago. She is a female and she is 10 weeks of age. I’ll call her Kali. Miss C then buys another kitten about 10 day later. He …
Do you have that X factor that cats love? I know some of you. And I know that you have it. It is something inside us that cats sense and warm to. They move towards it and love it. Cats know that you respect them. It may take a little while for them to …
We are reliably told by cat behaviorists that to stop a cat biting you, you should train her when she is a kitten by immediately and gently tapping her on the nose and saying in a firm voice, “No” after she has bitten you. When she grows up she won’t bite you. The idea …
Would you treat a cat behavior problem with drugs? I have never been in the position where it has entered my mind to treat a cat behavior problem with drugs. This is because I never regard cat behavior, in any form, as a problem. If a person can get themselves into that frame of …
By Elisa Black-Taylor A West Sussex (UK) cat has been nominated for a hero award after scaring away a burglar from his home. To look at Leo, a 3-year old Bengal, he doesn’t appear at first sight to be that frightening. Leo has had a lot of territorial training where he scares off neighborhood …
Yes, there are at least 3,207 reasons to relinquish your cat according to a study by the Regional Shelter Relinquishment Survey (Salman and others in 1998). Here are the top 41 reasons. The reasons are interesting and warrant a bit of a discussion. Cat Behavior Problems At the base of the spreadsheet I have …
This is a UK cat story. Do you believe it? I don’t want to insinuate that the 80 year victim of a domestic cat attack is lying or embroidering her story but I am sure that we do not have the entire story. The way she describes it and the picture of her face …
