A Michael Broad Blog
At the date of this short article, the online newspapers and media are picking up a story which states that open plan living is torture for domestic cats. It is not good for them and they become stressed and unhappy in open plan style housing. The person who promotes this viewpoint is a Dr …
UK: the Association of Pet Behaviour Counsellors (APBC) represents a group of experienced and qualified pet behaviour counsellors (I hasten to add that I’m not that keen on the concept of cat behaviourists or cat behaviour counsellors). In the UK the most readily published information about cat behaviour problems as at 2003 was produced …
This is a short post which reminds us that some but not all feline behavioural problems presented to veterinarians at their clinics are due to what can be described as “compromised welfare”. Compromised welfare means that the cat’s owner is not providing optimum welfare towards his/her cat. Here are some examples. The best-known example …
Research indicates that house dust contains flame retardant chemicals (from sofas and chairs), arsenic, lead and DDT. I suspect that, through usage, flame retardant chemicals are ejected from furniture over time. Although DDT was banned in America in 1972, it remains in many homes because it stays in the home at the base of …
The title is misleading because you don’t have to make a long list of New Year’s resolutions for your own cat. There is one principle which cat owners should adopt which will turn them into cat guardians and caretakers. The ‘ownership’ label can be ditched by resolving to throw out any old fashioned notions …
A question some cat owners ask is “How do I stop my cat from jumping on the table?” One answer is to remove items from the table. This technique is said to remove a cat’s desire to jump onto the table. If there is nothing on a table for a cat to get or …
Greg Krueger lives in St. James, Minnesota. He was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome when he was 49 years-of-age. He says all cats have Asperger’s which is one reason why he loves cats. He also loves trails. He has combined his two passions to turn a house, built for people, into one that is built …
When a cat licks the fur of her lower belly because she grooms a lot it is almost certainly going to be psychogenic alopecia which is compulsive self grooming rather than a hormone deficiency causing a loss of hair. Grooming is often a response to stress by cat. Stress might be caused by almost …
