A Michael Broad Blog
You can’t ask if Ragdoll cats are destructive as it is unwise to generalise too much particularly as this character trait is unusual. The question presupposes that all the cats of a single cat breed have exactly the same character trait; in this instance destructiveness. That’s not right. You can ask if an individual …
We hear a lot about positive reinforcement in socialising feral and stray cats. Positive reinforcement is a way of training cats and it can be used to train a cat to trust a human and people in general at which point the cat is socialised and therefore domesticated. A cat called ‘Journey’ was a …
There are two reasons why cats sit on a person’s lap: warmth and contact with the person. The latter is a desire to be close to their human caretaker and companion. That’s perfectly normal. And we know that domestic cats like warmth. This is because their wildcat ancestor comes from the African/Asian hot scrublands. …
I was told the vague but interesting story of a genuinely wild feral cat who was involved in a traffic accident. He suffered a bruised spine and broken legs. He was paralysed for a while but remarkably he recovered under the care of a cat loving volunteer to whom he became attached. His personality …
Once again this is not strictly a question about Bengal cats funnily enough. I’ve just written a post about Maine Coons making good pets and this topic is very similar. With regard to domestic cats getting on with other cats, it is almost irrelevant that they are Bengal cats or not. What is relevant …
I’m not sure that you can strictly say that domestic cats do bite us as a show of affection. It is sometimes a by-product of an affectionate encounter with your cat but I don’t think your cat decides to bite you in order to tell you that he likes you. There are several reasons …
Why isn’t my cat a lap cat? Three topics come to mind in response to the question in the title. They are, socialisation, age and wild cat hybrids. Tell me if you have more! Socialisation Perhaps the biggest influence on whether a cat is a lap cat or not is how and when they …
To be effective cat socialisation to people must start within the first six or seven weeks. Once started it continues for several weeks. A study by Dr Bradshaw confirms the above. In the 1990s Dr Bradshaw worked with the UK charity Cats Protection in order to study the age at which the socialisation of …
