Popularity of Cats and Cat FamilyWritten by chetan gupta
Cats outnumbered dogs by millions as house pets in USA , UK and many countries of Europe. In USA alone, there are about sixty million cats kept as pets. In USA, thirty seven percent of houses are having at least one pet cat. In UK about twenty five percent of houses are having at least one pet cat. In Australia, twenty six percent of houses are having at least one pet cat. There are more than seven million pet cats in UK. In Canada, there are about five million domestic cats. There are about five hundred million pet cats in world. Cats are also widely domesticated in other parts of world such as Russia, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Brazil, Israel, Japan, South Africa, all European Countries and many other countries of world. In India also, many people are keeping cats as pets. The earliest ancestor of cat was miacis, which lived over fifty five million years ago. The miacis had a long body and tail, short legs and looked somewhat like a weasel. The ancestor of all domestic cats is African wild cat. All domestic cats are members of same species, Felis Catus. African wild cats were found in fossil form as early as thirty eight million years ago. Cats are one of oldest mammals on earth. The cat family includes large members such as Lion, Tiger , Leopard , Cheetah , Cougar, Jaguar, Panther and Lynx. Other small members of cat family include European wild cat, Kodkod, Pampas cat, Geoffroy's cat, Tiger cat, Puma, Ocelot, Bobcat, Jaguarundi, Margay, Andean mountain cat, Leopard cat, Jungle cat, Fishing cat, Pallas's cat, Rusty-spotted cat, Marbled cat, Bay cat, Iriomote cat, Temminck's golden cat, Flat-headed cat, Chinese desert cat, Sand cat, Caracal, African wild cat, Serval, African golden cat and Black-footed cat. There are about forty different species of wild cat. The domestic cat is one of species of cat. The sand cat found mainly in Africa burrow into sand
| | 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
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