What affects us affects cats
You love your domestic cat companion. And he loves you in return. But sometimes when you get up at night to go to the bathroom (because you are of that certain age) it’s like driving a humvee down the Basra to Baghdad main road waiting to be ambushed by insurgents carrying AK-47s and rocket …
This is how I stopped my cat biting me. I was prompted to write the article because I have just read an article by Lena Bay on the Quora.com website which explains how she pretty much stopped her cat biting. She used a similar technique to me so I think it’s worthwhile discussing. Street …
The proof is in the pudding: cats learn by observation. This clever, athletic cat has learned to operate a typical wall-mounted light switch about five feet off the floor. It does not surprise me but it does look interesting. Cats normally learn by observation in the wild by watching their mother. It is pretty …
Haikou City, Hainan Province, South East China: This cat acted like a human in putting her paw through the bars, lifting the latch to the door locking mechanism and then pushing the door open. The cat looks like a blue British Shorthair, a classic purebred cat and one of the long established cat breeds. …
For me this sweet tabby cat is not necessarily hungry when she responds instantly to the call ‘Ya hungry’. She might be ready to eat but she is really responding to her human companion’s call and unusually it is an instant response. This goes against a study which was turned into a massive news …
The question is false because cats can ‘learn their names’. In truth, neither cats nor dogs learn their names. They learn the sound of their names and attach it to a reward as opposed to understand the meaning of their name (as a label) and attaching it to themselves. That’s my opinion. For cats …
The difference between punishing a cat and negative reinforcement, both of which should be avoided, is that the former requires the cat to be able to measure his/her behaviour against norms as decided by humans which is something that is beyond them while the later is simply associating a certain behaviour with something painful …
Cats learn their name not in a way which means that they understand the name conceptually and its meaning but because it is a certain distinct sound which carries a reward. It is a sort of Pavlovian response in my view.
