Breeds of domestic cats, and especially care for them

Often, cat owners are not quite the right idea about what is normal cat behavior.

This results in inappropriate expectations about the behavior of the animal, because accepted standards of conduct for unacceptable habits. A proper understanding of ethics cat helps prevent many complications of object relations cat and its owner, but also reduces the risk of stress in the lives of cats and, as a consequence, the development of behavioral disorders.

 

Modern house cat - a social being. Normal social behavior of the cat provides for the establishment and observance of the cat hierarchy within the colony or group. Often, a hierarchy is done by a certain amount of aggression, which is perfectly normal and does not injure the feline members of society. If your old-timer, "writes" the ritual slap newbie who recently appeared in the house, should not interfere in the process and discourage (and even more punishing) the old-timer. Most likely, the time between the pupils to establish friendly relations. Conversely, if the senior pet will be subjected to punishment, there is every reason to believe that the conflict between the instinctive and the expected behavior will cause stress and consolidate the aggression. You should not worry and if the grown up kid trying to raise their status in relation to aging, "Patriarch" or "patriarch", sensing the impending threat to their particular situation, taking preventive action to maintain status. Such behavior on the part of both the inhabitants of the house - a perfectly normal phenomenon in terms of natural instincts. Another thing, if conflicts are accompanied by serious fights and injuries. If you are powerless over permanent serious fight your pets, should see a specialist. There are special techniques of reconciliation of warring parties, as well as equipment start-home beginner.

 

is normal and night predatornoe (predatory) behavior of cats. After a wild cat - a night hunter, feeding on small rodents, whose activity increases at dusk. It is not necessary so angrily kick the cat out of the bedroom at night if it makes throws at your heels every time they are barely noticeable perturbation under a blanket. To reduce the nocturnal activity of the cat has developed special interactive games before bed (plus plenty of feeding at night). Nocturnal activity characteristic of mainly young people or the kittens. Prolonged isolation from the baby, because it interferes with sleep at night, can cause stress, leading to complications in the behavior.

 

The point of the claws - not a bad habit, and the urgent need for a cat. The point of the claws need to care for nails, and fulfills an important communicative function: to help ease Walking scratching cat leaves on the tree trunks his autograph, personalized for each individual and official source of information for competitors or "colleagues" in the territory. Cats can not deny doing anything without offering alternatives. It is impossible to sharpen its claws on the sofa - find a comfortable style for cat claws point to the same surface, located near the private area (a favorite vacation spots, for example).

 

A certain degree of aggression in the behavior of a cat - a normal phenomenon. There are several types of aggression: play aggression, predatornaya (predator aggression) aggression overpettinga (excessive affection); redirected aggression (never take a cat in his arms in a situation of violent confrontation between a stranger outside the window - run the risk of injury from the teeth and claws), associative aggression ( in situations related to associative discomfort); aggression caused by pain, social aggression (competition for territory, food, attention to master). All of the above, in most cases relatively easy to correct. However, in the case of associative aggression, sometimes it is difficult to determine the cause of aggression, so - choose the best method of correction.

 

The most common cause of excessive aggression is a game of orphanhood. Kitten, early separated from her mother and littermates, no time to learn the rules of social games. Following the special techniques, one can correct the lack of such education. That is the reason often lies at the basis of excessive aggression predatornogo behavior.

 

overpettinga aggression (excessive affection) is not a serious problem. Cutaneous receptors in the cat have a pretty high threshold of sensitivity. Keep in mind that by choosing the most suitable for the cat form of tactile contact with the person.

 

very serious problem for the owner is inadequate, pronounced cat's aggressive behavior toward humans or other cats (and other animals). Program to correct such behavior, in some cases takes up to 6 weeks or more and usually requires medical intervention. The program always chosen individually, requires special patience and precise execution of the recommendations of the expert.

 

deserves special attention is one of the most pressing problems - the problem of indiscriminate elimination (urination and defecation in the wrong place). First of all, it should be noted that any disturbing changes in behavior associated with urination suggests a visit to the veterinarian. Even such a trifle as the reduction of the time during which the female digs a filler before urinating can be a sign of diseases of the urogenital system.

 

Modern veterinary medicine involves physical and psychological components of the organization by the animal. Neither disease is not without attendant changes in behavior. In turn, most of the changes in behavior are a signal corresponding to the disease.

 

In the wild, some individuals mark territory feces, intentionally burying them. If domestic cat feces left on the mind of impermissibly place, it is almost always indicative of psychological discomfort associated with territorial threat. Sometimes, fortunately, the problem lies elsewhere - a cat only needs to allocate a special tray for the "big" cases, or replace an existing tray to more spacious.

 

Elimination of impermissibly place always serves a communicative function. Thus, there are two forms of communication with the urine: label (small pools with a pungent odor in the horizontal or vertical surface) and a large puddle on a flat smooth surface (in places where they are most visible - on the table, for example).

 

Tags - this is the result of territorial tagging associated with sexual maturation and readiness to mate (sexual behavior) or evidence of anxiety caused by the territorial threat. Tagging is addressed more to other cats or animals. Large puddles on a smooth horizontal surface - evidence of physical discomfort or physical pain, they are "directed" to the owner and are often a sign of inflammation of the urinary tract, blockage paraanalnyh glands or other ailments.

 

Tagging urine is not unique to cats, but cats, especially the dominant breeding individuals. Large pools of horizontal - sometimes a sign of illness, and an indicator that your cat does not like the location of the tray or cat is not ready to share the toilet with another cat. In most cases, the cat is ready to share the tray with a friend (or a friend, which, incidentally, happens rarely), but give it the right choice! In "multinaselennom" home trays should be equal to the number of cats plus one additional paper tray. In addition, there is a special "rule of kitty litter" (holders): privacy, cleanliness and location in a safe place. It is particularly important location for the tray. At the time of urination or bowel movements every animal feels especially vulnerable, so for these procedures is suitable only safe, private place.

 

Some neutered cats preserve sexual or parental behavior. This is typical of those animals that have not been spayed before puberty and already had experience of sexual or parental behavior. The case when spayed cat with the onset of spring throughout the house collecting various small soft objects and hide them under the bed. These items were for her kittens! The fact that the mechanism of natural instincts run is not limited to hormonal component. Greater role for the manifestation of instinctive behavior is the existence of so-called releasers of the environment. A cat in question, after sterilization, continued to respond to changes in longitude, of daylight, which is characteristic of spring - the pores of birth of kittens. Responding to the cries of stray cats mating outside, many in middle age sterilized pets cats continue to properly mark their territory with urine.

 

Tagging urine is often confused with frequent urination, which is almost always an indicator of urinary tract infections. Labeling is carried out from the "standing" (the tail is raised), and frequent urination - from the "sitting". But some cats (and especially cats) mark territory from the "sitting". Thus, tagging, due to territorial threats, sometimes hard to distinguish from the frequent urination caused by the disease. A labeling as a result of readiness to mate is easy to recognize - it is always accompanied by a drawn-enlistment meow, with a cat show their readiness to mate the characteristic posture.

 

A separate problem is the avoidance of the tray physically healthy cat. Perhaps the reluctance to use the tray - one of the most common behavior problems. Compliance with the "rules of the kitty litter" - only the most general prescription for solving the problem. In most cases, the basis of this reversal of behavior are private reasons for requiring an individual approach.

 

Thus, any disturbing changes in behavior require examination by a veterinarian. Only after the physical health of cats will be confirmed by the survey results, you should explore the psychic component.

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If the examination by a veterinarian found that the inversion behavior is caused by disease, not only to pay attention to the physical cause.

 

The treatment plan should include: changes in the environment, the implementation of corrective procedures, if necessary - medical intervention. Please note that the behavior problems caused by mental stress, never eliminated "by magic", ie never go away. The output of the animal from the stress state of research suggests the causes of stress and individual treatment. Therefore, in most cases for a positive result is necessary to consult a specialist.