Archive for June, 2008

Caring For Your Cat

When most people think about animal obedience work, cats are not usually the first candidates to spring to mind.

We usually associate cats with words like distant, autonomus, and laid back ; they like doing what they want, pretty much as and when they feel like it.

You might be excused for thinking that way, this is not really the right training material!

However ; many are deriving a great deal of pleasure from training their cats in basic and advanced obedience work and tricks (from sit, stay, come to jumping through hoops, twirling, and high-fiving) – and they are completly convinced cats love it, too!

The benefits of training your cat

Only because cats lead solitary, individual lives does not mean that they necessarily want to do so.

In fact, cats are fabulous affectionate and loving by nature ; they just need you to demonstrate your leadership and initiate the rapport-building process.

Cats are often undervalue when you want to train them, simply because most of the owners has very little need to attempt any sort of training at all. Unlike with dogs (whose ability to learn is very well documented) there is no need to train cats in the basics of pet protocol like house training and bathing.

So few people do not know of their cat's abilities in this area.

Training your cat is a fantastic way to enrich cat's life: Read more…

Basics Of Good Cat Care

Owning any pet is a big responsibility. You must know all the basic steps on how to groom and care for it. This goes for every animal. If you are favoring the feline types, you must know all about cat care.

Owning a cat and having it as a pet is not as easy as bringing home a stray one and feeding it every day. As a pet, the cat needs more than food for it to be happy and healthy.

Responsible Ownership Just like you, your cats also have their basic needs. If you want them to purr to happily ever after, you've to work hard for your cats to attain it. Yes, caring for cats goes beyond the caring part. You have to know what to do and how to do it.

Here's a view of what you should be looking out after as a responsible cat owner.
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Facebook Changes Luck for Cat

Sydney Morning Herald

Facebook changes luck for lonely cat Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - 21 Jun 2008 A seven-year-old Himalayan cat missing since Friday, August 13, 2005, was reunited with his owner almost three years later – with the help of Facebook. …