What affects us affects cats
I can understand the problem in differentiating between cats playing and fighting. It can be difficult, on the face of it, to tell the difference. This is because domestic cats don’t play like humans. They don’t play Scrabble or Monopoly or chess. They don’t play hopscotch on the pavement. When domestic cats play, they …
This is very typical of the domestic cat. Being serious for a minute, this is not about the cat preventing his human guardian from using their computer mouse. It’s about playtime bordering on hunting (and therefore a little bit too aggressive). This blue British Shorthair (a popular cat breed and coat colour) thinks that …
This is an example of what people call the “cat crazies”. Your cat is entertaining herself but primarily she is burning off energy and she’s doing it because she is not able to use that energy in a normal way when hunting. In other words, she needs more playtime (a hunting substitute) and that …
A girl is carrying her young cat around in what appears to be the hood of her jacket. It almost looks like a backpack but it isn’t or I don’t believe it is. It looks like the hood of a jacket but please correct me if I am wrong. It looks precarious and unworkable …
This sweet little white cat takes great delight in kicking four items on a shelf onto a hard floor. It is a classic case of domestic cat yob behavior. I am only kidding but we normally see one or two items hitting the deck but this guy loved the sound and sight of the …
The Holy Grail of playing with your cat is to achieve the situation in which your cat growls when she catches the ‘prey’ (a cat tease) telling you that her ‘raw cat’ has been activated. What Jackson Galaxy advocates is to mimic as accurately as possible how prey would react in the presence of …
Why do cats attack sheets when you are making the bed? The answer is that domestic cats are attuned through sight and sound to detect movement and noise indicative of a prey ‘item’ e.g. a mouse. Cats are able to detect prey at a distance and quick movements indicate prey items. It’s one reason …
I think that “love bites” is a slightly misleading description of what is happening. There’s not a lot of love in a cat bite although it is frequently done with only a touch of aggression (play aggression) rather than as a genuine, hard bite. Nonetheless it may hurt and it may break the skin. …
