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Cat owners know that cats are somewhat of a mysterious creature. Their mysterious behavior has been the catalyst for many cat myths down through the centuries, producing and perpetuating more myths, legends, old sayings and wives tales about cats than any other animal.
But which cat myths are fact and which ones are fiction? Let’s look at some of the more popular cat myths and find out.
Black Cats Are Bad Luck. Fact or Fiction?
The most popular cat myth is that black cats are bad luck. Many people believe this cat myth so strongly that they have a certain anti-bad-luck ritual they perform if a black cat crosses their path. A black cat is no more an omen of bad luck than a white cat, so this myth is fiction.
Cats Will Take A Baby’s Breath Away. Fact or Fiction?
Almost every new mother hears the cat myth warning her to not have a cat around a baby because a cat will take the baby’s breath away, smothering the baby to death. A cat can not take a baby’s breath away, so that myth is fiction. While a cat would not maliciously smother a baby, a cat would be and is attracted to a sleeping baby’s mouth full of formula or bottle nipple near the baby’s mouth. The potential for a cat to smother a baby under that circumstance is fact. A cat or any other animal should never be left alone with a baby or small child, for the safety of both.
Cats Need To Drink Milk. Fact or Fiction?
Most cats enjoy a saucer of milk, and it is a good source of protein and other nutrients, but it’s a myth that cats need to drink milk. Without human intervention, a cat would never taste of any type of milk after it was weaned from it’s mother’s milk, and the cat would do just fine. It’s interesting to note that some cats are lactose intolerant, just like some humans. If you give your cat a saucer of milk, note if there is any subsequent stomach upset, if so, your cat is lactose intolerant and shouldn’t be given milk.
Cats Purr Only When They’re Happy. Fact or Fiction?
Cats do purr when they are happy. Cats also purr when they are giving birth, when they are injured and even when they are dying. A cat’s purr is a sign of friendship, either the cat is glad you’re there or the cat is in trouble and needs a friend. It’s fiction that cats only purr when happy.
There are a multitude of other cat myths, most I suspect are just like the ones I have mentioned, purely fiction and not facts at all.
The philosophy behind the process of training a cat to use a toilet is attributed to the cat’s quality of adaptability to reasoning and learning. Cats learn by trial and error, observation and imitation. A cat is able to recall certain information much easily than other pet animals.
Cats won’t do a thing without a direct benefit for them. Any person with an emotional and good communication relationship with a cat may find the cat to be trainable. Many cats have active minds. They generally succeed on encouragement, examination and learning can be trained extremely well.
Some cats prefer going outside to defecate and avoid using the same place twice due to their sensitive sense of smell. Litter training rarely requires human intervention.
Cats can also be trained to make use of a toilet by owners. Successful toilet training depends both on the willingness of the cat to learn and on the patience of the owner to teach. A course on cat toilet training can be found on a website devoted to this facility.
To get rid of a litter tray, you’ll have to undertake little steps one by one.The first step to take is to move your cat’s litter tray away from its original position and at the same time making it sure that your cat can find the new place easily. Leave it there for a few days so your cat gets used to it.
Here you need a lot of patience. Replace the cat’s litter tray with an aluminum foil cooking tray of a suitable size fitting into the toilet bowl correctly. The tray should be 2-3 inches deep and have 1/2 inch of litter in it. Make a step by step gradual movement of the cats’ litter tray towards the toilet bowl. Always keep an eye on the behavior of the cat, while it is adjusting itself to the changed positions of the tray.
At the final stage, place the tray in the toilet bowl. Your cat will know it is there and will become used to mount the toilet to find the litter. The tray should fit firmly on the bowl and the lowering of the seat should hold it in place. Keep the toilet lid open to avoid unpleasant happenings. After 2-3 weeks, start reducing the litter by piercing the tray with a small hole so that cleanliness is ensured. Widen the hole gradually at least once in a week and minutely read the behavior of the cat. Flush regularly to maintain good hygiene as well as to avoid foul smell.
If every thing is normal, remove the tray away from the toilet and leave it bare. If things do not turn out to be as expected, just slow the process a little bit. Finally, there you are. Your cat is trained properly and is ready to use a toilet successfully.
Cats under six months are slow learners. So just be more patient with them and allow them adequate time to get used to the new system. For a normal cat it won’t be that difficult at all provided your communication is understood by your lovely cat.
Jealousy and possessiveness are very common traits among cats. Cats always mark their living spaces and the people in their living space with scent glands that are in their paws and around their whiskers. Cats do this because of their possessive nature. This is also commonly referred to as being territorial.
It may appear like affection when your cat rubs his face against you but that is actually just your cat making sure that it’s known that you are one of his possessions! This shows how important his territory (including you) are to him! I like to take this in the best way possible. It’s nice to feel important to another living creature. And you and your attention are very important to your cat.
It is not uncommon at all for a cat to become very attached to one person in a household in particular and basically ignore the other people in the house. It is also not uncommon for a cat to react very negatively when a newcomer (such as a baby and or another cat.) This is a sign of a cat’s jealousy. A cat reacts in this way to newcomers because he or she is fearful of being replaced by the new cute and cuddly member of the household! This is why when you bring a new member into the household it’s very important to give extra attention and treats to your “old” cat. You don’t want to hurt his feelings. This is similar to when you have a second child and you want to make sure that your first child still knows that he is loved and cared for. It’s easy when there’s a new member of the household to put all of your attention on them because of how novel their presence is at first!
If you understand your cats emotions you’ll better be able to care for him or her. Take the time to learn about your cat and how he sees the world. It’s easy to think that they see things just like we do. It’s easy to think that our cats are little humans and when they are rubbing up against us they are telling us how much they love us. Well maybe it’s not so bad to think that.
It is important to realize how they feel about another pet coming into the house. Knowing that they are reacting negatively due to jealousy should help you to better deal with their behavior. Remember when they react poorly to newcomers that they are only acting that way because they don’t want to be replaced. Make sure your cat knows how much you care for him or her. Instead of spending less time with your “old cat” when a new one comes in the house, spend extra time with them to make sure they know that you still love them and care about them.
Heartworm disease is a serious and potentially fatal disease in pets, mainly dogs but cats as well. It is caused by worms (heartworms that can be several inches in length) that live in the heart, lungs and associated blood vessels, causing severe lung disease, heart failure and damage to other organs. Heartworm disease affects mainly dogs and cats but other mammals can be affected as well.
Heartworm disease in cats is different from dogs. Most worms in cats do not survive to the adult stage in cats as the cat is not a typical host. Cats with adult heartworms typically have just one to three worms and often cats affected by heartworms have no adult worms. This means heartworm disease often goes undiagnosed in catsbut even immature worms cause damage in the form of a condition known as HARD “heartworm associated respiratory disease”. The medication used to treat heartworm infections in dogs cannot be used for cats, so prevention is the only protection for cats from the effects of the nasty heartworm disease.
Once a cat is infected with the disease it is highly unlikely that the owner will ever know. Symptoms for cats with heartworm are extremely non-specific, mimicking other problems such as asthma and bronchitis. Add to this, the fact that it is much harder to test for the parasites in cats, than in dogs and vets have a hard time working out if heartworm is the underlying health issue affecting your cat.
If you do not use heartworm meds to prevent your cat becoming infected with the parasite, you will always have that nagging worry that any sign of illness or just becoming ‘off-color’ is in fact the onset of heartworm disease. Whereas a simple blood test is usually effective in determining whether a dog has the disease cats tend to need x-rays, ultrasound and more detailed blood work to get the same result. This means just finding out whether or not your cat is suffering from heartworm disease will be costly, difficult and stressful for your pet.
Once diagnosed there is very little treatment available to your cat. Vets are now treating dogs with the disease much more efficiently than ever before. However, cats are less able to absorb dead adult heartworms so the treatment offered to dogs is rarely used for cats. Usually a heartworm positive feline will be monitored and only offered secondary treatment such as to help overcome the lung damage and heart disease created by the adult worms. The worms themselves are left to live out their time naturally. This means a cat with the disease is likely to incur two to three years of ultrasound scans, x-rays, blood tests and medication to help heart and lung function before being free of heartworm.
This ‘hands-off’ treatment is the only option for cats but it leaves them with a long period of stress and illness to contend with. Regular veterinary checks leave their owners with an ongoing problem of vet bills to contend with.
By using a monthly tablet or topical treatment owners can avoid all that stress. A monthly heartworm medicine will destroy all heartworm larvae deposited in your cat’s bloodstream during the previous thirty days. This means those larvae are unable to develop into adults that accumulate in, and destroy organs so quickly.
Heartworms find cats less hospitable hosts than dogs, so often fewer survive inside a cat than they would if infecting a dog. The parasites tend to live shorter, less fertile lives too, but only one adult worm is more than capable of killing a cat, so owners should not rely on the myth that heartworm is a dogs only problem. With diagnosis and treatment so difficult, heartworm prevention for all felines living in areas with heartworm populations infecting dogs should be a priority.
The Pallas Cat can be found in Central Asia and are much smaller than the average exotic cat. They generally have a lifespan of 10 years, and are also known as Manul. The most interesting aspect of the Pallas Cat is perhaps that they are the oldest cats in the world. Because there are sources out there which indicate that the Pallas Cat is perhaps the oldest living species of cat in the world, they are highly regarded.
A website dedicated to cats known as Of Cats, states that the Pallas Cat is perhaps one of the oldest living cats in the world. Of course, we really do not have enough evidence to make it a fact.
The Pallas Cat can be found through Southern Asia and Western China. They are not a threatened species because they seem to be quite common, and sightings are not rare at all. They prefer to reside in the barren mountains to the rocky desert which shows that they have great adaptive skills so that they can adjust to the different environments and still survive.
They are sometimes seen residing in mountains as high as 15000 feet. While they are common, they are still considered a threatened species of exotic cat, and we need to work to protect them. The Pallas Cat got their name from the gentlemen who had discovered them; his name is Peter Pallas.
At first glance, many would just confuse or think that the Pallas Cat is just another house-hold cat; however, they are more than that! The Pallas Cat weighs around 22 inches in length, and will weigh between seven to twelve pounds. The Pallas Cat is known to have long fur that is coarse to the touch. The base color of the cat’s fur is grey, but the guard hairs are white which gives it a stunning effect. It gives it a sparkling appearance. Also, one some of their backs, there are faint black markings while their faces resemble the lynx with the stripes on their throat. They have long whiskers, and a long ten-inch tail that is tipped black. Their eyes are rather unusual compared to other cats though as other cats’ eyes contract to slits; however, the Pallas cat’s eyes contract to round circles!
The Pallas Cat spends most of the day sleeping, and is generally found residing in burrows, rock fissures and caves. While many people believe that they are a nocturnal species, they are actually crepuscular meaning that they are active right before twilight or sunrise. The Pallas Cat will often hunt solitary; they usually will feed on a variety of birds and small mammals especially rodents.
The Pallas Cat is truly an interesting species of cat; the belief that they are the oldest specie of cats in the world gives you a reason to look at them with a different perspective.
Pallas’s cat (Otocolobus manul) is about the size of a domestic cat but looks much larger due to its stocky build and long, dense coat, which helps shield it from the cold in its frosty habitat.
The fur, which is nearly twice as long on the underparts and tail as it is on the top and sides, seasonally changes colour, from a frosted grey in winter to a grey/fox-red in the spring. Hair length and density also varies seasonally, being longer and heavier in the cold seasons. The short, stocky legs are marked with indistinct black bands and the bushy black-tipped tail is encircled with dark rings towards the end.
Contrasting patches of pale white-cream fur exists on the chin, throat, inner ears and just beneath the eye, while two dark stripes run diagonally across each cheek and the crown is patterned with little black spots. The colour and patterning of the hair provides Pallas’s cat with a high level of camouflage and amongst rocks it can remain perfectly concealed.
The small, rounded ears are set low on the sides of the short, broad head, an adaptation to stalking prey in open country where there is little cover.
Unlike other small cats, the pupils in the large eyes of Pallas’s cat contract to small circles rather than slits.
We are affiliates of Amazon and these items are on Amazon so if you buy one we may receive a payment and for this we thank-you! Meow!Automatic Cat Feeder
Cat owners know that cats are somewhat of a mysterious creature. Their mysterious behavior has been the catalyst for many cat myths down through the centuries, producing and perpetuating more myths, legends, old sayings and wives tales about cats than any other animal.
The philosophy behind the process of training a cat to use a toilet is attributed to the cat’s quality of adaptability to reasoning and learning. Cats learn by trial and error, observation and imitation. A cat is able to recall certain information much easily than other pet animals.
Jealousy and possessiveness are very common traits among cats. Cats always mark their living spaces and the people in their living space with scent glands that are in their paws and around their whiskers. Cats do this because of their possessive nature. This is also commonly referred to as being territorial.
If you understand your cats emotions you’ll better be able to care for him or her. Take the time to learn about your cat and how he sees the world. It’s easy to think that they see things just like we do. It’s easy to think that our cats are little humans and when they are rubbing up against us they are telling us how much they love us. Well maybe it’s not so bad to think that.
Heartworm disease is a serious and potentially fatal disease in pets, mainly dogs but cats as well. It is caused by worms (heartworms that can be several inches in length) that live in the heart, lungs and associated blood vessels, causing severe lung disease, heart failure and damage to other organs. Heartworm disease affects mainly dogs and cats but other mammals can be affected as well.
The Pallas Cat can be found in Central Asia and are much smaller than the average exotic cat. They generally have a lifespan of 10 years, and are also known as Manul. The most interesting aspect of the Pallas Cat is perhaps that they are the oldest cats in the world. Because there are sources out there which indicate that the Pallas Cat is perhaps the oldest living species of cat in the world, they are highly regarded.