Cat Training Part-2

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owner's old home in Utah State after walking a distance of eight hundred fifty miles without any help. A cat returned back alone from Nievre in France to its owner's home in Stuttgart in south west Germany after walking a distance of about thousand kilometers without any help. Similarly a cat of England named Sooty returned back alone to its owner's old home after walking a distance of hundred miles without any help. A cat returned back alone to its owner's home after walking a distance of ninety miles without any help while another cat returned back alone to its owner's home after walking a distance of eighty miles without any help. Cats like to play games like chasing light, hide and seek and many ball games. Cats enjoy playing with toys and watching television. Many video cassettes specially designed for cats are now available inrepparttar market. The cat toys include action toys, toy mouse, soft toys, Ping-Pong balls, catnip toys, race n'chase, feather toys, kitten mitten and balls. Toys for cats are available at http://www.cattoys.com/ , http://www.ferretstore.com/ and http://www.petsmart.com/. A CD-ROM game for cats that offersrepparttar 111184 computer literate cat eleven big game options, including virtual mice, spiders and birds that skitter around is now available atrepparttar 111185 internet site http://www.cyberpounce.com/. Cats are strongly attached to catnip. Catnip is strong scented mint that has whorls of small pale flowers in terminal spikes and contains a substance attractive to cats. The catnip is used in making many cat toys. For more information about cats visitrepparttar 111186 website www.moggies.co.uk/index.html. Some outdoor cats themselves learn to cross traffic. Cats have also been employed in many glamorous jobs. Bob,repparttar 111187 weather cat is regular on a television station in Oregon wore sunglasses on bright days and earmuffs and a scarf whenrepparttar 111188 weather turned chilly. In England as recently as fifty years ago, thousands of cats were onrepparttar 111189 government payrolls, working in offices, barracks, workshops and onrepparttar 111190 docks. The National Printing Office of France has employed cats to protect its paper, as hasrepparttar 111191 USA postal service. The Butchers, Bakers, Grocers, restaurant owners, book store owners, stationary owners and food industry owners keep pet cats in order to keep their premises free of rats. The amount of love that a mother cat provides to her kittens is highest as compared to all other animals. The stray female cat is excellent mother. Cat understands whenrepparttar 111192 moment of giving birth is near. Whenrepparttar 111193 time of giving birth is near,repparttar 111194 female cat begins to appear agitated and meows in a strange way, sweet and musical, a kind of request for help and response to what is approaching. The female cat try to give birth in a corner where she can eventually defend herself and newborn kittens from dogs and other animals. After giving birthrepparttar 111195 mother cat will immediately free each kitten fromrepparttar 111196 sac, lick it, clean it and gently dry it. After giving birth,repparttar 111197 female cat transfer her litter from one hiding place to another in order to protect it from dogs and other animals. The mother cat clean and feedrepparttar 111198 newborn kittens. The mother cat teach its kittens to play, to hunt, to climb, to clean and to use toilet. When living outdoors,repparttar 111199 cat learns to protect itself fromrepparttar 111200 cold and rain by taking refuge in a doorway basement or in abandoned box. Whenrepparttar 111201 end of life of cat is near, cat try to find a secluded spot in which to die with dignity, either under a bush, inrepparttar 111202 trunk of a tree or a crumbled hut so as not to disturb or be disturbed inrepparttar 111203 moment ofrepparttar 111204 most quiet sleep. Many cats are now working in movies. Morris wasrepparttar 111205 famous cat who worked on television. Cats specially wild cats like lion perform in circus. Toonces, a male cat was so much intelligent that he was able to actually drive car, truck and tractor. Toonces liked to ride bicycle. Toonces was also able to communicate in English by means of typing. Toonces worked in 1988 in NBC's Saturday Night Live in which he actually drove cars. Toonces was one ofrepparttar 111206 most talented cats on television. Toonces worked at Saturday night live with many familiar celebrities. The television parents of Toonces were Saturday Night Live regulars Victoria Jackson and Dana Carvey. Toonces also worked at Saturday Night Live with many other co - stars like Steve Martin, Andrea Martin, Randy Quaid. Video film of Toonces driving car can be downloaded atrepparttar 111207 website www.catass.com oonces and at website www.whataboutcats/mpeg_toonces.html. Video film of toonces driving car is now available at http://www.amazon.com/. For more information about Toonces visit website www.wrona.com oonces.html and also visit website www.mavericktimes.com oonces.html . A cat named Pepper was a motion picture cat who starred next torepparttar 111208 comedian Charlie Chaplin. Britain's best known television cat was Arthur. Arthur starred in more than three hundred television commercials between 1966 and 1975. Thomas Alva Edison Inc. manufacturing company of scientist Thomas Alva Edison earliest movies showed two cats fighting boxing in a ring. Many cats are now working in movies. Visitrepparttar 111209 movie cats page at www.fmi.uni-passau.de/~zimmerth/mcp/. According to news published in newspaper, in June 2001, a cat named Borris managed to order 450 cans of its favourite food on an internet shopping site when its owner was not looking. According to website of T.V Series of Animal Planet channel of Discovery channel, some cats also enjoy surfingrepparttar 111210 internet. A software to preventrepparttar 111211 use of computer and internet by cats is now available atrepparttar 111212 website http://www.pawsense.com/ and atrepparttar 111213 website www.bitboost.com/bb_welcome.html. A book named Cats Into Everything by Bob Walker is now available atrepparttar 111214 website http://www.amazon.com/.

I am owner and webmaster of website http://www.catswelfare.org.I am working in SPCA Mumbai for the past seven years.I am also a cat dentist.




Cat history,cat Myths,Advantages of keeping cats as Pets over Dogs

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published in newspaper, in August 2000, a cat named Jessie saved her owner Margaret Hayward's life by jumping up and down on her owner's bed in order to wake her whenrepparttar home caught fire. A cat named Scarlett of New York ran into a burning house five times in order to save her kittens. Some cats can protect their owner from thieves. A cat of UK actually alerted his owners to a real burglar by running up and downrepparttar 111183 stairs hissing and growling. A cat saved her kittens from a burning building. For any information about adventures of some extraordinary cats like bravery and homing instinct visitrepparttar 111184 website www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/excats/cats.html or website www.pbs.org/nature/excats. Cats are thought to protect humans from bad evils. Farmers and shopkeepers keep cats to protect food grains from rats as well as to prevent diseases like Plague which are spread by rats. Butchers, bakers, grocers, bookstore owners as well as restaurant owners and stationary store owners domesticate cats in order to keep their premises free of rats and mice. Due torepparttar 111185 lack of cats, two thirds ofrepparttar 111186 European human population died ofrepparttar 111187 Plague inrepparttar 111188 past. Cats have been credited withrepparttar 111189 the ability to predict earthquakes. Cats can hear ultrasonic waves. Cats become intensely agitated before major earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and severe electrical storms. In many cases, cats have been observed desperately trying to escape from inside buildings prior to an earthquake. Cats and kittens are very photogenic and can be easily be used to advertise any product like greeting cards, milk products, candy boxes, calendars, toys and food. Cat's sense of hearing is one ofrepparttar 111190 highest in animal kingdom. Cat's sense of hearing is greater than human beings. The anatomy of cat is very similar to human beings. The Egyptian word for cat is Mau. Cats were even worshipped as feline goddess Bast or feline goddess Bastet or feline goddess Pasht in ancient Egypt for more than two thousand years. The Feline goddess Bastet had body of a woman and head of a cat. The goddess Bastet was associated with fertility, motherhood, grace and beauty. It was believed thatrepparttar 111191 goddess Bastet controlledrepparttar 111192 fertility of man and beast, cured illness and watched overrepparttar 111193 souls ofrepparttar 111194 dead. The largest temple of goddess Bastet was built inrepparttar 111195 ancient city of Bubastis about 4500 years ago. Aelurus, an Egyptian cat god, representedrepparttar 111196 moon. In ancient Egypt, if a house caught fire,repparttar 111197 rule went like this, save pet cats first and humans second. In ancient Egypt, a person killing a cat was punishable by death. In ancient Egypt, after death of cats, they were mummified and decorated, some with rock crystal. The dead bodies of cats were then wrapped in rich bandages of various colours. The mummified rats and saucers of milk were kept near cats. The faces of cats were covered by masks on whichrepparttar 111198 nose, eyes, ears and whiskers were evident. The mummified cats were then placed in boxes made of wood or bronze. These boxes were then placed in cat tombs or pyramids. In ancient Egypt,repparttar 111199 cat mummies outnumbered human mummies. In an ancient capital city of Egypt, more than 300000 cat mummies were found in 1890. The Egyptians believed that their gods took onrepparttar 111200 appearance of cats in order to pass down orders and omens. If a pet cat in ancient Egypt died, then allrepparttar 111201 family members used to shave their eyebrows as a sign of sorrow. If a pet cat in ancient Egypt died, thenrepparttar 111202 entire family went into elaborate mourning with chanting and pounding of chests as an outward sign of grief. The Egyptians believed that divinities assumedrepparttar 111203 semblance of a cat, and sorepparttar 111204 high prists decreed divine orders and omens ofrepparttar 111205 future according to its behaviour. The Egyptians considered that thatrepparttar 111206 cat's unblinking gaze gave it powers to seek out truth and to see intorepparttar 111207 afterlife. The ancient Egyptians used cats not only as hunters of mice but also as catchers of fish as well. The Egyptian Sun god Ra was believed to assumerepparttar 111208 form of a tomcat each night for his battle withrepparttar 111209 serpent of darkness. According to Roman Mythology, Dianarepparttar 111210 roman goddess of hunting angeredrepparttar 111211 giants by taking a cat form. In India cats were mentioned in Sanskrit writings around 100 B.C.. The Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata, of about 500 B.C., both contain stories about cats. The Indians atrepparttar 111212 time of Ramayana and Mahabharata worshipped a feline goddess of maternity called Sasti and for decades Hindus were obliged to take responsibility for feeding at least one cat. In India cats often played an important part in religious or occult ceremonies. Cats haverepparttar 111213 ability to predict earthquakes. Cats have barometric sensitivity or sixth sense. Cats can forewarn us of coming storm, coming rainfall and change in atmosphere. There is a popular notion that states when a cat licks its paw or puts it in its ear, it is a sign of rain or a change in atmosphere. Many legends, folklore, myths and superstitions are associated with cats. Cats appear inrepparttar 111214 mythology of ancient Greece and Rome. Cats are commonly mentioned inrepparttar 111215 fairy tales, folklore and legends of many countries. Some people thought that witches could change themselves into cats. Today, people in ,many societies believe that cats bring good fortune. Many people find cats mysterious because they move swiftly and silently and because their eyes seem to glow inrepparttar 111216 dark. Some people believe that a black cat crossing path of a person means bad luck. Some people think that cats possess magical powers while some people think cats as extraterrestrial creatures. Some people think that cats haverepparttar 111217 ability to predict future. All cats are believed to have nine lives. In parts of UK , a cat washing its face with water is said to foretell rain. In UK and Scotland, a black cat crossing path of a person means good luck. In America, white cats are thought to bring good luck. The Russian Blue breed of cats is considered lucky in Russia. Black cats in particular have long been regarded as having occult powers and as beingrepparttar 111218 familiars of witches. White cats are thought to bring good luck in USA. The famous cats in cartoon include Tom, Garfield, Felix, Krazy kat, Top cat, Sylvester, Courageous cat, Pink Panther, Cheshire cat and Azrael.

I am owner and webmaster of website http://www.catswelfare.org.I am working in SPCA Mumbai for the past seven years.I am also a cat dentist.




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