By: Kristy Mason
I live close to a farm and where there are farms, there are cats. Needless
to say, I get a lot of feline visitors every day. Most of the kitties live on the neighboring farm. They are very useful creatures for the farm environment because they control the mice population. However, a cat can not live on mice alone, so I like to leave a little cat food outside for the critters.
None of these felines wear a cat collar because they are kind-of freelance pets. Occasionally, one or two cats decide that I am their owner of choice. They visit the property, chase mice and eat the food I leave for them. They are especially appreciative of the canned cat food during the winter months and I usually find more than a couple farm cats wandering around my yard.
Recently, I discovered an unusual kitty who wears a cat collar. This is not common among farm cats in our area so I immediately thought that this was someone’s pet and the family could be looking for her. This cat is magnificent, wearing long fur that almost looks like white feathers from a distance. Her eyes are so green that you could spot them in the darkest night.
The first thing I had to do was to get close to her in order to see if she really was a pet. I had no doubt that she was. The problem was getting close to the one with the cat collar without scaring her off. This is no easy feat, especially when the other feline visitors are prone to run of when they detect the slightest movement.
I knew that there would be no way to find out where the pet came from unless I picked her up. I was certain that her information was hidden on the cat collar. Many people will buy a personalized cat collar that comes in very handy during such a time and I was sure that this cat was from a loving home and has an owner who would take such measures to insure that that precious pet would not be lost.
I had no luck even getting close to the kitty wearing the cat collar but I did manage to find a flyer with the cat’s picture on it with the family’s information. The cat’s name is Sebastian, and the flyer said that it is written on her cat collar along with her phone number. I gave her owner a call and he immediately came to my property to claim his cat. The cat collar did not really help in this situation, but it may have if I knew the proper way to approach a cat.
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How To Stop Spraying Of Cats
By: Alitsa Neuyo
If you observe that you cat gets into an agitated state, with its tail lifted and
is backing himself towards the door or any other thing and urinates, it means it is suffering from some problem. This is a common problem in cats that are not allowed to go out of the house and is referred to as “spraying”. It is no doubts, a problem which can annoy you and the cat both, but it can be easily treated.
As a lot many of you think, the spraying problem is not related to the litter box; in fact it is related to the habit of ‘marking’. Pheromones, present in the spray of the cat urine is something which these animals use to communicate with each other. They are almost like the fingerprints of the human beings, which identify them. Similarly, cats can be identified through pheromones, to the other animals.
As cats are known to be territorial, they have a habit of marking their territory, and they do so by spraying, which is also a sign for others that this territory belongs to the cat. This may be quite annoying but the problem would not be resolved by getting angry by the cat. Raising your voice or showing anger to the cat would only result in frequent repetitions.
The smell of urine tends to attract cats in heat and for them spraying is kind of an attraction, a signal for love. You may even notice that a cat that has been spraying during heat gives birth to kittens after some months. It is not necessary that cats spray only in heat; they may also do so following some stress or interaction with other cats.
Spraying might be a way of the cats to communicate but for the humans, the smell is quite annoying and irritating. In general, most of the times the cats spray when they are out of the house, but in case your cat remains inside the house all the time, this means trouble. In case you notice spraying inside the house, take necessary measures to prevent and stop it.
The simplest and the most convenient methods to restrict spraying are to get the cat spayed or neutered, which is based on the sex of the cat. Spraying usually stops in male cats, on the very day, the surgery is performed. This option may not be suitable for you, if you wish to breed the cat sometime in future. In such case, you can not get the cat spayed or neutered, but you can choose other ways of preventing it.
Immediately consult the veterinary doctor if you face such a situation. He may be the right person to talk to and can guide you some ways to handle the situation without surgery too. This can be caused due to some medical reason as well which can be determined by the veterinary doctor. But make sure to take the necessary action as soon as you observe spraying because apart from carrying a horrible smell, the spraying may also leave stains in different areas of the house.
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Article written by : Alitsa Neuyo. To read articles about pets, please visit our websites, Catbreedstory.com & Petsza.com
If you observe that you cat gets into an agitated state, with its tail lifted and
is backing himself towards the door or any other thing and urinates, it means it is suffering from some problem. This is a common problem in cats that are not allowed to go out of the house and is referred to as “spraying”. It is no doubts, a problem which can annoy you and the cat both, but it can be easily treated.
As a lot many of you think, the spraying problem is not related to the litter box; in fact it is related to the habit of ‘marking’. Pheromones, present in the spray of the cat urine is something which these animals use to communicate with each other. They are almost like the fingerprints of the human beings, which identify them. Similarly, cats can be identified through pheromones, to the other animals.
As cats are known to be territorial, they have a habit of marking their territory, and they do so by spraying, which is also a sign for others that this territory belongs to the cat. This may be quite annoying but the problem would not be resolved by getting angry by the cat. Raising your voice or showing anger to the cat would only result in frequent repetitions.
The smell of urine tends to attract cats in heat and for them spraying is kind of an attraction, a signal for love. You may even notice that a cat that has been spraying during heat gives birth to kittens after some months. It is not necessary that cats spray only in heat; they may also do so following some stress or interaction with other cats.
Spraying might be a way of the cats to communicate but for the humans, the smell is quite annoying and irritating. In general, most of the times the cats spray when they are out of the house, but in case your cat remains inside the house all the time, this means trouble. In case you notice spraying inside the house, take necessary measures to prevent and stop it.
The simplest and the most convenient methods to restrict spraying are to get the cat spayed or neutered, which is based on the sex of the cat. Spraying usually stops in male cats, on the very day, the surgery is performed. This option may not be suitable for you, if you wish to breed the cat sometime in future. In such case, you can not get the cat spayed or neutered, but you can choose other ways of preventing it.
Immediately consult the veterinary doctor if you face such a situation. He may be the right person to talk to and can guide you some ways to handle the situation without surgery too. This can be caused due to some medical reason as well which can be determined by the veterinary doctor. But make sure to take the necessary action as soon as you observe spraying because apart from carrying a horrible smell, the spraying may also leave stains in different areas of the house.
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Article written by : Alitsa Neuyo. To read articles about pets, please visit our websites, Catbreedstory.com & Petsza.com
Cats
By: Kristy Mason
Cats have their own laundry or body soap solution, and can wash
themselves in all areas except the one area Moms used to nag about—behind the ears…at the nape of the neck. Oh, and they can be picked up (with teeth!) by that nape of the neck, without ever flinching or griping or calling out in pain.
Cats don’t hassle or pounce or yipyipyip, relentlessly, when you enter a room. They have little interest in your command performance attention—the quality and quantity of which had better be delivered, according to their mortal foes, dogs, or you’ll get a face full of slobber, a front full of mudprints, or a fat slam on your ass to the ground cause the damned dog thinks he’s a lapdog when he is, in fact, a Rhodesian Wolfhound weighing in at over a 100 pounds.
Cats are so intuitive they know when you need them. That is, if you are weeping, depressed, lonely, or ill, they will first stare at you for a minute, likely picking up which vibe it is they need to address, and then will come close. This is not hyperbole or conjecture on my part. Numerous studies have been done to indicate that pets in general but especially cats have been introduced into high-stress people’s homes and hospital wards—and the illnesses decreased, the stress levels reduced, and the feeling of well-being returned to degrees of something around 15% improvement.
I mentioned that cats stare. Yeah, this is one I still am trying to figure out. They will position themselves in statuesque stillness, focus on one spot, thing, or you (shudder), and with unblinking, undeterred pose will penetrate whatever (or whomever) it is they stare at.
I have paid close attention to this particular behavior on many an occasion, and can only see not a bored soul just watching the air molecules move about but a profoundly knowing being…whose eyes, when you look deeply into them, reveal eras and ages of reincarnated mystique, reveal the origin of their many dimensioned essences.
I may be interpreting this because I know the cats’ history. Or know what others know thus far. Cats were a revered animal in Egypt. They were found buried in the tombs and sarcophagi of the royalty. They were reportedly so esteemed that a person was caught harming a cat that person was executed. (Wish we had held onto this one archaic law, especially when I see how cats are skinned alive and sold I markets for food in some countries, or how cats are tortured by cults or kids with nothing better to do and no more brain cells than to set a now defenseless domesticated creature on fire. Makes me want to puke, actually.)
And back to the physical wonderment of cats…that whole hairball thing, while at first may be disgusting or may seem pitiful (I always go into apoplectic sympathy mode as the cat looks at me to shut me the hell up so she can hack spew), is really fascinating (and makes sense). The cat is licking her hair every day and night, many times. She is of course collecting the fallout. In her gut. She then, on scheduled intervals of time, hunkers, hacks, and hawks until the perfectly bundled thing is expelled. And then she begins the cycle all over again.
Cats have (students and professors at Cornell studied) 100 different vocalizations. My favorite is the rrow-rrow-rrow one as if my cuddly baby is chirping with giddy delight. (It is happy, it is friendly, and it is a greeting. It is also an expectation—of goodies.)
I am really not all that intellectual about cats, though I do acknowledge a deep respect for and kind of metaphysical fascination with cats. So I am always learning something new, coming to understand their biological imperatives—that they wash immediately after eating (or after you eat, even) so they don’t (their cells recall this from jungle days eons back) appear as food or prey. Duh. I didn’t think of that.
They scratch and claw stuff not only to sharpen their claws. They do so to leave scent for those competitors (in our case, the raccoons) that might even think about approaching for a nice warm bed, lots of healthy food, much smooshy affection, and the occasional starefest. Which still kinda creeps me out.
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Cats have their own laundry or body soap solution, and can wash
themselves in all areas except the one area Moms used to nag about—behind the ears…at the nape of the neck. Oh, and they can be picked up (with teeth!) by that nape of the neck, without ever flinching or griping or calling out in pain.
Cats don’t hassle or pounce or yipyipyip, relentlessly, when you enter a room. They have little interest in your command performance attention—the quality and quantity of which had better be delivered, according to their mortal foes, dogs, or you’ll get a face full of slobber, a front full of mudprints, or a fat slam on your ass to the ground cause the damned dog thinks he’s a lapdog when he is, in fact, a Rhodesian Wolfhound weighing in at over a 100 pounds.
Cats are so intuitive they know when you need them. That is, if you are weeping, depressed, lonely, or ill, they will first stare at you for a minute, likely picking up which vibe it is they need to address, and then will come close. This is not hyperbole or conjecture on my part. Numerous studies have been done to indicate that pets in general but especially cats have been introduced into high-stress people’s homes and hospital wards—and the illnesses decreased, the stress levels reduced, and the feeling of well-being returned to degrees of something around 15% improvement.
I mentioned that cats stare. Yeah, this is one I still am trying to figure out. They will position themselves in statuesque stillness, focus on one spot, thing, or you (shudder), and with unblinking, undeterred pose will penetrate whatever (or whomever) it is they stare at.
I have paid close attention to this particular behavior on many an occasion, and can only see not a bored soul just watching the air molecules move about but a profoundly knowing being…whose eyes, when you look deeply into them, reveal eras and ages of reincarnated mystique, reveal the origin of their many dimensioned essences.
I may be interpreting this because I know the cats’ history. Or know what others know thus far. Cats were a revered animal in Egypt. They were found buried in the tombs and sarcophagi of the royalty. They were reportedly so esteemed that a person was caught harming a cat that person was executed. (Wish we had held onto this one archaic law, especially when I see how cats are skinned alive and sold I markets for food in some countries, or how cats are tortured by cults or kids with nothing better to do and no more brain cells than to set a now defenseless domesticated creature on fire. Makes me want to puke, actually.)
And back to the physical wonderment of cats…that whole hairball thing, while at first may be disgusting or may seem pitiful (I always go into apoplectic sympathy mode as the cat looks at me to shut me the hell up so she can hack spew), is really fascinating (and makes sense). The cat is licking her hair every day and night, many times. She is of course collecting the fallout. In her gut. She then, on scheduled intervals of time, hunkers, hacks, and hawks until the perfectly bundled thing is expelled. And then she begins the cycle all over again.
Cats have (students and professors at Cornell studied) 100 different vocalizations. My favorite is the rrow-rrow-rrow one as if my cuddly baby is chirping with giddy delight. (It is happy, it is friendly, and it is a greeting. It is also an expectation—of goodies.)
I am really not all that intellectual about cats, though I do acknowledge a deep respect for and kind of metaphysical fascination with cats. So I am always learning something new, coming to understand their biological imperatives—that they wash immediately after eating (or after you eat, even) so they don’t (their cells recall this from jungle days eons back) appear as food or prey. Duh. I didn’t think of that.
They scratch and claw stuff not only to sharpen their claws. They do so to leave scent for those competitors (in our case, the raccoons) that might even think about approaching for a nice warm bed, lots of healthy food, much smooshy affection, and the occasional starefest. Which still kinda creeps me out.
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