Cat behaviour, Intelligence and memory of cats, Cat trainingWritten by chetan gupta
Continued from page 1 a cat is very easy because cats are very intelligent animals. Cats can learn many activities by observation like human beings. The observation power of cats is greater than all domestic animals.Cats can learn dozens of activities. It is not necessary to train a cat to use litter box because mother cats train their kittens to use litter box. Cats can also be trained for using toilet. A kitten can learn to use toilet at age of just three weeks. A cat of more than six months age can be easily trained to use toilet.Cats can be trained for walking and dancing with help of two legs.The earliest written record of a cat dancing with a person dates back from 1692. Cats can be trained for various exercises like aerobics and Yoga.Cats are born meditators. Cats can draw paintings without training. In USA and New Zealand paintings drawn by cat artists are sold in exhibitions. The cats draw paintings since ancient Egyptian times. Some good looking paintings drawn by artist cats are sold for more than ten thousand dollars. A good looking painting drawn by a cat was sold for seventy five thousand dollars.Cats can be trained for playing Piano, violin and other musical instruments. The public houses in which a cat play a violin are known as The Cat And Fiddle. Cats can be trained to walk on a leash. Cats learn many activities by observation. Cats of four to five months old are easiest to train. Cats can learn dozens of activities like handshaking with paw, begging, opening door, turning on lights, jumping through hoop, opening windows, opening refrigerators, playing musical instruments, eating food with help of their paws, ringing bell, acting dead, rolling on floor on command, hide food in boxes and walking on a leash. Cats quickly learn tricks like fetching a toy or object, sitting on command, jumping through a hoop and walking on a rope. Cats can easily learn many tricks. The cat pays attention to those things that are related to its own interest. Sometimes cats also learn something on their own without observation or training like grabbing doorknobs to get out, hiding food in boxes, opening windows to get in and opening refrigerators to eat food. The cats has an innate sense of curiosity. It is aware of strange objects, contents of an open drawer and objects in motion. The cat or kitten, more than any other animal, is full of trepidations. The cat or kitten first puts a paw toward a new thing, touches it timidly, then proceeds more decisively, and only after that smells it, but dog or puppy, curious to know world, smells everything that comes its way. During World War I, cats were sent by British army to sea to test submarines and some cats were sent to trenches to warn about gas attacks. Cats have ability to use biological clock, earth's magnetic field and angle of sun. Out of all other mammals only cats have homing instinct. Cats can return back to their owners home from thousands of kilometers away without any help because of its sharp memory. Cats love their owner's home. A cat of USA returned back alone from New York to its owner's new home in California after walking a distance of two thousand three hundred miles without any help. A cat of USA named Sugar returned back alone from California to its owner home in Oklahoma after walking a distance of two thousand and four hundred kilometers 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 in 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.A CD-ROM game for cats that offers computer literate cat eleven big game options, including virtual mice, spiders and birds that skitter around is now available at internet site http://www.cyberpounce.com/. Cats are strongly attached to catnip.The catnip is used in making many cat toys.Cats have also been employed in many glamorous jobs. Bob, weather cat is regular on a television station in Oregon wore sunglasses on bright days and earmuffs and a scarf when weather turned chilly.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 when moment of giving birth is near. When time of giving birth is near, 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 birth mother cat will immediately free each kitten from sac, lick it, clean it and gently dry it. After giving birth, 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 feed newborn kittens. The mother cat teach its kittens to play, to hunt, to climb, to clean and to use toilet. When living outdoors, cat learns to protect itself from cold and rain by taking refuge in a doorway basement or in abandoned box. When end of life of cat is near, cat try to find a secluded spot in which to die with dignity, either under a bush, in trunk of a tree or a crumbled hut so as not to disturb or be disturbed in moment of most quiet sleep. Many cats are now working in movies. Morris was famous cat who worked on television.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 of 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.Video film of Toonces driving car can be downloaded at 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 to 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.According to news 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 surfing internet. A software to prevent use of computer and internet by cats is now available at website http://www.pawsense.com/ and at website www.bitboost.com/bb_welcome.html.

I am owner and webmaster of webmaster of website http://www.catswelfare.org.I am working in SPCA Mumbai,India for the past seven years.I am also a cat dentist.
| | Intelligence of cats part-2Written by chetan gupta
Continued from page 1 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 in 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 offers computer literate cat eleven big game options, including virtual mice, spiders and birds that skitter around is now available at 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 visit 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, weather cat is regular on a television station in Oregon wore sunglasses on bright days and earmuffs and a scarf when weather turned chilly. In England as recently as fifty years ago, thousands of cats were on government payrolls, working in offices, barracks, workshops and on docks. The National Printing Office of France has employed cats to protect its paper, as has 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 when moment of giving birth is near. When time of giving birth is near, 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 birth mother cat will immediately free each kitten from sac, lick it, clean it and gently dry it. After giving birth, 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 feed newborn kittens. The mother cat teach its kittens to play, to hunt, to climb, to clean and to use toilet. When living outdoors, cat learns to protect itself from cold and rain by taking refuge in a doorway basement or in abandoned box. When end of life of cat is near, cat try to find a secluded spot in which to die with dignity, either under a bush, in trunk of a tree or a crumbled hut so as not to disturb or be disturbed in moment of most quiet sleep. Many cats are now working in movies. Morris was 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 of 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 at 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 to 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. Visit 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 surfing internet. A software to prevent use of computer and internet by cats is now available at website http://www.pawsense.com/ and at website www.bitboost.com/bb_welcome.html. A book named Cats Into Everything by Bob Walker is now available at website http://www.amazon.com/.

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