Cat Training Part-2Written by chetan gupta
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. The books How To Toilet Train Your Cat: 21 Days To A Litter Free Home, How To Toilet Train Your Cat: The Education Of Mango, No More Litter: How To Train Your Cat To Use The Toilet and Hello, Potty are now available at http://www.amazon.com/ for toilet training of cats. Cats can understand their owner's mood. A cat can recognize its owner's footsteps. Some outdoor cats learn to cross traffic. Cats can be trained for walking and dancing with help of two legs. Dancing classes of cats are conducted in USA. The book Dancing With Cats by Burton Silver, Heather Busch and Shakya Bahrain is now available at http://www.amazon.com/ . For online information about dancing with cats visit website www.monpa.com/dwc/index.html. 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. The books Yoga For Cats by Trandi Reiner and Walter Reiner, Yoga For Cats by Talia Katasanda, Yoga For Cats by Erica Rutherford and Yoga For Cats by Christienne Wadsworth are now available at http://www.amazon.com/. For information about yoga for cats visit website http://www.yogakitty.com/. Cats are born meditators. For information about meditation by cats, visit website http://www.catanna.com/ and website www.catanna.com/mandala.htm. 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. Visit online exhibitions of paintings drawn by cats at website www.monpa.com/wcp/exhibition1/index.html and website www.monpa.com/wcp/exhibition1/aviary.html. Books like Why Cats Paint: A Theory Of Feline Aesthetics by Heather Busch and Burton Silver and Cat Artists and Their Work by Heather Busch and Burton Silver are now available at http://www.amazon.com/. The book Why Cats Paint contains many photographs of good paintings drawn by cats. For more information on paintings drawn by cats visit websites www.freddie-street.com/guide/wcpaint.shtml , www.lookoutnow.com/feline/catpaint.htm, www.creativity-portal.com/main/blog/111503.html, www.sfspca.org/behaviour/catpainting.shtml and website www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~mprice/why%20do%20cats%20paint.txt. 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. Many books like The Cat and The Fiddle, The Cat & The Fiddle & More, A Cat With A Fiddle and Cat Goes Fiddle-I-Fee are now available at http://www.amazon.com/. Cats can be trained to walk on a leash. Cats learn many activities by observation. Cats are easiest to train out of all domestic animals. 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. For training of cats, visit animal planet channel website at http://animal.discovery.com/guides/cats/behaviour ricks.html and website http://animal.discovery.com/guides/cats raining hebasicsintro.html. 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. Visit website of animal planet channel at http://animal.discovery.com/guides/cats/behaviour/practice.html. 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 communicate their wants and needs to their owners. Cats can recognize their owner's mood. Sense of taste in cats is equivalent to human beings. 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. A cat of USA named Ninja returned back alone from its owner's new home in Washington State to its
| | Cat history,cat Myths,Advantages of keeping cats as Pets over DogsWritten by chetan gupta
The Cat was a pet at least eight thousand years ago because bones of cats, mice and humans were found buried together on ancient island of Cyprus. In ancient Egypt, cat was a pet at least five thousand years ago. The cat was considered to be a sacred animal in ancient Egypt. Cats are held sacred in Buddhism. Much appreciated by Buddhists was capacity of cats for meditation which they sensed in cats. The Birman cat descends from cats that were venerated as gods in Buddhist temples. In Burma, Burmese cats are held to be sacred. The Birman cat descends from cats that were venerated as gods in Buddhist temples. The Buddhist priests believed that faithful returned to earth in form of a cat. In Buddhism, it is believed that on death of a person who had reached highest levels of spirituality soul entered body of a cat. It remained there until cat died, when soul entered paradise. Even today, in some Asiatic sanctuaries, divine powers are attributed to cat and it is believed that in hereafter soul of cat speaks to Buddha in favor of its owner that still lives on earth. In Buddhist temples across Asia, cats are kept as mousers. Among most charming of Japanese cats is Maneki-Neko, a small cat believed to ensure happiness and good luck. Japanese Buddhists venerate cats after their death. The temple of Go - To - Ku - Ji in Tokyo is dedicated to cats. Vested priests serve temple and intone chants for feline souls. Crowded into temple are sculptures paintings and relief carvings of cats. In each of these, cat has a paw raised as if in greeting, classical pose of cat Maneki - Neko. Cats continue to be worshiped as deities in countries such as Thailand and China. The power of cats to see in dark was also considered useful to hold evil spirits at way, since it was usually thought that eyes of cat were more active at night, walls of many Asiatic houses were adorned with images of cats. In England, a black cat sitting in a house on a wedding day is thought to bring good luck. In Thailand, a Diamond eyed cat is believed to be a symbol of good luck. In South America, Incas revered sacred cats, representations of which can be seen in pre-Columbian Peruvian artifacts. The earliest representations of domestic cat were Egyptian tomb paintings and sculpture. By 5th century B.C., images of cats appeared on Greek coins, and later they were depicted in Roman mosaics and paintings and on earthenware, coins and shields. Cats have reputation for having nine lives. Cats are very affectionate towards human beings. The Siamese breed of cats are very affectionate towards people. Cats can recognize footsteps of their owner from hundreds of feet away. Cats are easy to care as compared to dogs. Outdoor cats bury their faeces. Cats groom themselves with their saliva. The cats tongue, saliva and paws help in grooming cats themselves. Cats groom themselves about twenty times in a day. Kittens start cleaning or grooming themselves at age of one month. All cats generally do not need bath. Cats are easiest to care out of all domestic animals. Cats are most independent domestic animals. Cats do not need care and attention. Cats are also small in size. Cats also exercise themselves. Cats are most playful out of all domestic animals. Kittens play themselves by batting and tossing small objects, hunting and by jumping in and out of boxes. Cats love to hide in cardboard boxes, drawer or laundry basket. Kittens begin playing with toys at age of four weeks and their enjoyment becomes more elaborate as they grow. Kittens that have free access to a terrace or garden will amuse themselves by running after a butterfly, bug, insect or leaf. Cats enjoy being stroked by their owner. The gestation period of a cat is 63 days. The average litter of cats consists of four kittens. Kittens are born blind, deaf and helpless. The eyes of kitten open at eight to ten days of age, and they begin to be weaned about six weeks after birth. The senses of kitten begin to function ten to twelve days after birth. Soon after birth mother cat licks her kittens, this action cleans them and helps stimulate their circulation. After birth of kittens, mother cat take them to safe places. Scientific studies have shown that stroking a pet cat or kitten and playing with a pet cat or kitten reduce stress and anxiety and lowers blood pressure of its owner. Cats can also learn to live with other domestic pets. The fur of cats is soft and beautiful. Cats are comfort - loving creatures, seemingly addicted to warmth and luxury. Cats also seem to grow fond of their owners, adopting them almost as parents. Cats are available in many coat colours. Cats and kittens use litter boxes or toilet and unlike dogs, cats do not need to be walked. Dogs are not able to use litter box and toilet and dogs need to be walked. Kittens begin using litter box at just five or six weeks age. The litter boxes of cats should be filled with sand, regular clay, clumping clay or wooden pallets. Childrens and adults both enjoy playing with cats. Kittens should be domesticated at age of two to four months. The weight of a newborn kitten is about hundred grams. Many cat magazines are published in USA , UK, and other countries each year. Cats have been portayed in works of many great artists including Leonardo Da Vinci, Albrecht Durer, Paul Gauguin, Theodore Gericault, William Hogarth, Edouard Manet and Pablo Picasso. Most cats like to become friendly with human beings while few of them want to be left alone. Kittens are most playful out of all domestic animals. All kittens play by themselves by finding amusement or satisfaction with odd trinkets or by jumping in and out of boxes, hunting and poking, batting and tossing small objects. Kittens also exercise themselves. Keeping cats as pets can bring cheerfulness and for aged, emotionally disturbed and prison population they bring about amazing transformation. Cats can be lifesaver for their owner. A cat of UK saved his owner's life by signaling that gas cooker had been left on with his paw. A cat named Mourka delivered vital messages from Russian scouts about enemy's gun replacements. According to news
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