Cat Behavior / Declawing / Human to cat relationship / interaction with owner / kitten development / kitten development / learning / learning by observation / mothering / scratching / substitute mothers / Training
September 3, 2023
This is an article by Elen, a visitor to PoC. We humans are claimed to be divided in to two categories, Cat people and Dog people. I basically agree. I do love dogs myself;...
Cat Behavior / classical conditioning / learning / learning by observation / operant conditioning
July 28, 2023
Domestic cats have good learning abilities as shown by the fact that they adapt to indoor living. They make sense of their surroundings by classical conditioning and learn how to open doors through ‘operant...
April 8, 2022
Like many cat owners, I have a visiting cat from a neighbour’s home. In some ways I like it because my cat likes to play with the visitor and they get on fairly well...
June 29, 2021
This is not only a cute cat video but an instructive one as well. It tells us a lot about how cats learn. The video occurred on December 2017 at Manisa, Turkey. The video...
March 7, 2021
Being in sync with your cat is good for him/her. I’ll use ‘him’ to mean him or her. It is good for both of you especially your cat because it is reassuring which promotes...
March 17, 2020
Why do cats hate tin foil? Well, we shouldn’t generalise because some domestic cats are not fazed by tin foil (or only slightly so) but typically they are. The reason is that tin foil...
October 29, 2019
I think that this video tells us a bit about the domestic cat’s mentality. It gives us a clue as to what they are thinking. But I’d like to know what people make of...
March 19, 2019
She made a toy out of a flip top bin lid and in doing so learned how they work. There has to be a certain amount of intelligence involved to constantly flip that flipping...
March 13, 2019
Sometimes cats just don’t understand the potential dangers they place themselves in. I suppose that this cat sees the children skateboarding around him and instinctively presumes that they will always avoid him. He does...
February 23, 2019
This cat looks very smart in the way he opens a door. He positions himself well and uses his weight to lever the door handle down. Observers are generally impressed and even amazed by...
August 18, 2016
The answer to the question in the title is that the scientist trained mother cats to eat bananas (for one minute put aside the morality and ethics of this experiment). He found that when...
July 23, 2016
My cat calls me to go out with him at night. He’s just done it. It was about 9:30 pm. I think I am imprinted on his brain as his mother/father. Today I took...
July 11, 2015
This tabby-and-white family cat wanted to use the family toilet and he did so without any training or encouragement. This is the first case of self-taught human toilet use by a cat that I...
July 2, 2015
I have written about this before but not seen such a good example on video of a kitten learning how to do things by direct observation of his mother. The first 30 seconds are...
