Intelligence of cats part-2

Written 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 atrepparttar 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 withrepparttar 111190 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 visitrepparttar 111191 website http://www.yogakitty.com/. Cats are born meditators. For information about meditation by cats, visitrepparttar 111192 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 visitrepparttar 111193 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 withrepparttar 111194 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, visitrepparttar 111195 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. Visitrepparttar 111196 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, butrepparttar 111197 dog or puppy, curious to knowrepparttar 111198 world, smells everything that comes its way. During World War I, cats were sent byrepparttar 111199 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 haverepparttar 111200 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 Care,Cat Products and Cat Diseases

Written by chetan gupta


In USA, a cat is sold from cattery at cost any where upto US $ 20000. In USA alone people spend more than four billion dollars every year for cat food. People of USA spend more money for buying cat food than buying their baby food. Cats need balanced diet consisting of proteins, vitamins, fats and carbohydrates. People also spend large amount of money for buying cat beds , cat furniture, cat clothes, litter box, cat bathing soap, cat carriers, cat toys, catnip, apparel, collars leash harness, cat identification tags, cat sleeping baskets, cat toys, cat flap, scratching posts, articles of cat grooming, cat bathing articles, skin remedies, cat combs, cat brushes, cat shampoo, cat tooth paste, cat medications, vitamins and cat vaccinations. Many types of cat litter boxes and cat food are now available inrepparttar market. For information about cat articles available in India visitrepparttar 111189 website www.indiapets.com/cats/index.htm. There are many grooming centers for cats in USA and other countries. Grooming of a cat includes combing, brushing, bathing and nail trimming. The articles of cat grooming includes combs, brushes, rakes, pet shampoo and nail trimmer. Cats can become ill, if they are not provided with clean food and clean water. Cats are very susceptible to various diseases. Cats need protection from germs. The cats are extremely sensitive to slight variations inrepparttar 111190 taste of water. Some cats can refuse to drink tap water due to presence of Chlorine or other minerals inrepparttar 111191 tap water. In this case, bottled water should be provided to these cats. House cats do not dislike water but react adversely to being chilled or doused with cold water. Cats with white fur are very prone to sunburn. Frequent sunburn can cause skin cancer in cats. Cats are susceptible to a variety of viral and bacterial diseases. The most common cat diseases are Feline Distemper, Coryza, Feline Leukemia, Toxoplasmosis, Disorders of eye and ear, respiratory diseases like Feline viral Rhinotracheitis, Feline Calicivirus and Chlamydia, Feline infectious Enteritis, cat flu, Feline infectious Peritonitis, Feline Dysautonomia, Leptospirosis, common cold, Dirrhoea, Furballs, Cat Allergies, Cat Scratch Disease, Pneumonia, Rabies, Scabies, Cancer, Diabetes, Abscesses, Acne, Arthritis, Anal prolapse, Asthma, Allergy, Constipation, Diarrhoea, Eczema, Fits, Feline Infectious Anaemia, Kidney Infections, Kidney Stones, Heartworms, formation of furballs, Internal Parasites like tapeworms, lungworms and roundworms, External Parasites like ringworm, ticks, fleas and mites. Fleas and Ticks causes Allergies, skin irritation and Anaemia. Cats can get infested by internal parasites like tapeworms and roundworms through contaminated food and water. Cats can also get infested by tapeworms from eating mice and flea. These worms can cause frequent vomiting in cats. Cats often vomit soon after eating, which is most often caused byrepparttar 111192 accumulation of fur balls inrepparttar 111193 stomach, although a food allergy, Feline Leukemia, or other organic cause may be involved. When a cat is sick then there is a drastic change in its habits,

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