What affects us affects cats
Yes, in my experience, they work very well. Cats instinctively use them without any training in my experience although it is fairly limited as I live with one cat who used it instinctively for the first time. Cats manage to get the dry cat food pellets out of the feeder without any problem in …
There are apparently seven ways to exercise your cat. There are probably more ways, but in practice there are less. I’m going to list seven possible ways to exercise your cat and comment critically on those suggestions. In my view there are three general ways to exercise your cat: allow them to go outside …
Vinyl or laminate flooring is better than carpeted flooring if you live with a domestic cat. And it is even more desirable if you have underfloor heating. I believe that there are six reasons why hard flooring is better than carpeted flooring. Inappropriate elimination You must have heard a lot about inappropriate elimination. The …
I have just thought of what I think is an easy way to diet your cat. You feed your cat solely with an interactive cat feeder for a while and then you might go on to using that plus some wet food until they have regained their normal weight. Note: you’ll have to watch …
“Contrafreeloading” is a made-up word. It was created by animal psychologist Glenn Jensen in 1963. Scientists like to make their use of language harder to understand. It means behaviour which is against “contra” freeloading which means to get something easily. In other words when behaviour is contrafreeloading it is behaviour that requires more effort …
The time is 8:20 AM. My cat has just spent about 10 minutes feeding himself using the interactive cat feeder (cheap as chips on Amazon). It was his supper because immediately afterwards he went to bed in the cat condo in the background. It’s got a little covered shelf or den which he popped …
This is a very short and rather poor-quality video (sorry) that I made of my cat using an interactive feeder. I think that it is worth showing because I was very sceptical about interactive feeders. I wasn’t sure if they were that useful or even if they worked. But I was given one so …
