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		<title>Do Cats Really Love Us Or Just Being Nice?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 09:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cat Lover</dc:creator>
		
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 There is no simple answer to the question. It can be hypothetical question with two sides of argument towards the feline response and behavior to the pet owner. I think a cat behavior and response tend to be honest and candid emotions.
Like being explained earlier, it can prove to be tricky by explaining a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is no simple answer to the question. It can be hypothetical question with two sides of argument towards the feline response and behavior to the pet owner. I think a cat behavior and response tend to be honest and candid emotions.</p>
<p>Like being explained earlier, it can prove to be tricky by explaining a cat’s love for the owner. However, we do know or can observed that cat do tend to express its own reactions and emotions strongly. Fear, anger, excitement and affection are easily displayed by cats. The next form of argument links back to the perception and how humans interpret of a cat behavior.</p>
<p><span id="more-1772"></span>Cats will extend their attachment with people whenever they feel love and being shower with attention.</p>
<p>Different cat breeds also display personality variation and behavior. In a simply content, cats convey affection through numerous ways, such as tail twitching or even winks to the owner. Try doing this simple notion of winks with your pet, and you may discover his return favor too. Observe your cat behavior whenever you enter a room or even speaking, the cat will express his emotion with tail pop up twitching a bit. Sometimes in return the feline will even bump his head against your hands, legs.</p>
<p>If you are already owning a pet cat, you may like to recall the initial days of feeding for your pet. You may have observe that after a couple of weeks of feeding, the moment you like to pet the cat, it sometimes beat you to it by showing it affection by bumping its head or body against your hand followed by some purring. It is one form of affection, however it may not be the best of affection showing while you were sleeping when the cat suddenly jumps in and bump for affection.</p>
<p>Perhaps, it can be compliment of true love whenever your cat follows and try to bump his way through to you.</p>
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		<title>Is Your Cat Happy Where It Is Being Boarded</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cat Lover</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you know or tell if a cat being care is happy when left with a boarding service? First we must fulfill the certain requirements, before the cat can be left over at the pet boarding service with a clear conscience. Ensure all the animals that being boarded are met with the basics criteria [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How do you know or tell if a cat being care is happy when left with a boarding service? First we must fulfill the certain requirements, before the cat can be left over at the pet boarding service with a clear conscience. Ensure all the animals that being boarded are met with the basics criteria of healthy and clean appearance. Badly treated, badly groomed-looked/unhealthy look  pets gives a bad impression and disease prone animals.</p>
<p>Boarder Acceptance criteria apply to those with vaccinated and wormed animals. Stringent conditions must be complied. These all complies with basic hygienic and cleaning. Next is the environment provided must have the following:</p>
<p><span id="more-1769"></span>All cages and outdoor environment or vicinity must be cleaned daily.</p>
<p>Enclosed outdoor environment for cats to roam and all are protected against the rain. Besides that, all cats are kept in separate cages, but all within visual contact with each other.</p>
<p>Animals are also allowed to look outdoors. Coupled together with an environment that provide a scratching post that are used to sharpen the cats claws. The food and drinking bowl must cleaned and replenish. Food must be fed accordingly and also to planned commercial cat food.</p>
<p>On tops of these, the care takers are also play a important role of involvement in the cat care and welfare of the cats. Time will be invested to foster a playtime and cat care well-being in terms of health and psychological part. You will not want to get a withdrawn cat behavior because insufficient play time. Work and playtime is critical importance to the growth of the cat welfare.</p>
<p>Cat Health Care is also regularly monitored and health checks are conducted by veterinarians who pay regular visits. If a cat is behaving well, sometimes cat treats or toys can be provided to make the boarding experience more pleasant and eventful</p>
<p>Finally, before you make the decision for a switch for a pet boarding service, make sure it is of reliable and approved service. Ask around to get the recommended service for these type of expertise.</p>
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		<title>How Do Cats Find Their Way Home?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cat Lover</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Is their truth to say that cats cannot find the way home after long wanderings or just another debate to old wives tales to counter these statements.
We have to understand that cats, besides having a strong sight, they do have another strong sensory using the nose for their scent and communication. For most cats, it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is their truth to say that cats cannot find the way home after long wanderings or just another debate to old wives tales to counter these statements.</p>
<p>We have to understand that cats, besides having a strong sight, they do have another strong sensory using the nose for their scent and communication. For most cats, it pose no problem for them to find their home within distance of 2 to 3 miles. In most tests, most cats are able to make their way straight home from the point of drop off origin even if have been given a detour. A cat with outdoor experience will be more decisive and superior in operating these tests as compare with a household indoor cat.</p>
<p><span id="more-1767"></span>Cats surpass us humans in terms of seeing movement due to their superior peripheral vision. In one way or another, their pupils can dilate wider and capture more view than we do. In recent study, it is found that when cats are faced with similar situations, cats tend to resort to the sight sensors to replay in their head of the audio and visual images they have leave a trail on.</p>
<p>These flashes of memory can be in the form of major highway, fire engines sirens, or even metal stamping of factories around the vicinity. Noises and voices becomes part of the audio images that imprinted onto the memory. On top of these images, the length and strength of the sounds signals play a significant role. During the search and orientation to find the way home, cats may be at disadvantage and wander off tracks if the distances covered are in excess of three miles distance.</p>
<p>Caution must be called for if cases of reports of cats traveling far greater distances.  Sometimes, cats may be gone for several weeks or months on the trail to finally return home. Does providing cat training aid in the cause? Or does the familiar acoustic image and trail marks aid in the recovery of the cat. There are no direct conclusions to explain these incidents.</p>
<p>There are also arguments that cats are ultra sensitive to the surroundings and very much in receptive in emissions to force field. The physics of magnetic field and electrical charges in the environment can alter or give guidance to the cats to journey through home. Perhaps cats are able to align and orientate themselves within their internal “compass” to reach home.</p>
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		<title>Sense of Smell In Cats</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contrary to the belief that smell importance to the dog is more than cat is very misleading. Firstly we have to understand the different nature in circumstances surrounding both animals.
Animals make strong use of their senses to get around things, in the dog world it is consider the so –call macrosmate;living primarily in the world [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Contrary to the belief that smell importance to the dog is more than cat is very misleading. Firstly we have to understand the different nature in circumstances surrounding both animals.</p>
<p>Animals make strong use of their senses to get around things, in the dog world it is consider the so –call macrosmate;living primarily in the world of smells. If we consider the examination of dog structure can shed some light with the evidence in the following. If we take an example of a olfactory mucosa for german shepherd is approximate 30 in.<sup>2</sup> (200 cm<sup>2</sup>) in size, and comparing to that of dachshund is 11 in.<sup>2</sup> (75 cm<sup>2</sup>). <span id="more-1761"></span>The cells comprises between to 120 million and 200 million respectively. Meanwhile, for a cat olfactory mucosa total 3 in.<sup>2</sup> (20 cm<sup>2</sup>) of about<span> </span>60 million olfactory cells, while the humans have only approximate 0.7 in.<sup>2</sup> (5 cm<sup>2</sup>) and 20 million olfactory cells.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Cats oriented themselves primarily through optically, but the smell senses also play an important role for them too. For a sensing organ, it can be highly developed already for new born kitten even when the sight and hearing senses are still shut. With the scent helps them drawn to the milk in the teat. After several weeks, by then the developing sight sense starts to play the important role for the kitten. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Nevertheless, the scent of smell continues to play an equal important role for the growing kitten in the stages of its life to a full grown cat. This continues to play a role in the behavior for the cat: example in the food consumption pattern. The food is also subjected to a smell check prior to consumption, it had a sensory communication to determine whether resulting can stand each other. The feline nose does more than sniffing out food in the house, it also used the highly sensitive nose to communicate with other cats. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Cat will get familiarity with humans through scents by contact of rubbing their head and flanks against them. Each time a cat starts to run his scent gland from his head or paws on an object, it is leaving a personalized communication for other cats to sniff and interpret. You can start to notice a cat behavior by the way it act relatively to the environment it is in. New cat or kitten will start to leave scent message when they go about marking areas with scratches or even feces. Sometimes this scent of marking is used for sexual behavior to simulated attraction.<span> </span></span></p>
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		<title>The Importance Of Neutering Your Cat</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the large number of homeless and feral cats in the world, it is no wonder that people are beginning to realize the importance of neutering their cats. After all, since cats can reproduce several times a year and mature quickly, just two feral cats can quickly become twenty.
These feral cats are often actually unaltered [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With the large number of homeless and feral cats in the world, it is no wonder that people are beginning to realize the importance of neutering their cats. After all, since cats can reproduce several times a year and mature quickly, just two feral cats can quickly become twenty.</p>
<p>These feral cats are often actually unaltered pet cats that were released by owners who no longer could care for them. A colony of feral cats can spread diseases to pet cats and dogs in the area. Even when the cats are fairly healthy, they are often infested with fleas. When female cats are in heat, the colony can literally keep people up all night with their fighting and crying. Hungry cats will raid the trashcan and playful kittens will destroy shrubbery and soil lawn furniture.</p>
<p><span id="more-993"></span>Besides reducing the number of unwanted kittens, spaying and neutering cats provides several other important benefits. Many people cannot handle the racket caused by a cat in heat. Soon the sound of your female house cat mewling pitifully at the door is joined by the yowling and fighting of every tom cat in the neighborhood. Un-neutered tom cats have a tendency to roam far from home if they are outdoor cats. Both indoor and outdoor tom cats will mark every new object with their odorous spray.</p>
<p>Unaltered cats are also more prone to certain types of cancer than altered cats. These cancers of the reproductive organs are very rare in cats that are altered by one year of age. In addition, unaltered cats can develop several contagious reproductive diseases. </p>
<p>Of course, there is also a downside to altering your cat. Unlike altered dogs, cats that are altered can compete in the show ring. However, if your cat wins a championship, other people may want one of your cat&#8217;s kittens and you will not be able to have a litter. </p>
<p>Cats can be altered at quite a young age. Some humane societies will alter kittens as young as eight weeks. However, most veterinarians agree that it is healthier to alter kittens at five to six months, unless they are feral kittens who are trapped to be altered and then released back into their colonies or they are in a home with other unaltered cats. </p>
<p>Neutering is harder on female kittens than male kittens, so if you have both male and female kittens, you may want to neuter the males at a younger age and wait to neuter your females until they are six months old. </p>
<p>Although cats rarely have problems after being neutered, sometimes their incisions become infected. Check your cat once a day to be sure the area has not turned puffy and red. If you notice your cat licking and chewing at the stitches from the surgery, you may need to talk to your veterinarian about using a surgery collar to keep the cat from being able to reach the stitches. In addition, while male cats can be active and bouncy without injuring themselves, female cats will need to be confined indoors for three to five days after the surgery.                                                                                                               </p>
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