Play aggression Aggression is an inherent aspect of your cat’s predatory nature: behaviors like stalking, chasing, leaping, pouncing, swatting, and biting are all common displays, and are always a major component of any play session. Usually, this doesn’t constitute a problem: it’s just how cats play, and catering to your cat’s predatory whims can be pretty fun! But when your cat becomes play aggressive, things can get very uncomfortable, very quickly: faced with a cat that doesn’t understand that such play is painful and even dangerous for her owner, playtimes with your cat Click to Read More

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Urine marking in Cats - What is urine marking? Urine marking – sometimes called spraying – is when your cat deposits small amounts of urine (usually on vertical surfaces) as a kind of message tag to announce his presence. Although this issue involves inappropriate urination inside the house, marking isn’t actually a housetraining problem: it’s a deliberate expression of territoriality, which is a completely different thing. Why do cats mark? There are a number of reasons why cats mark: Territoriality: the cat is letting Click to Read More

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When most people think about animal obedience work, cats aren’t usually the first candidates to spring to mind. We tend to associate cats with words like independent, aloof, and laid back – they are known to focus on doing what they want, pretty much as and when they feel like it. You might be excused for thinking that this isn’t really ideal training material! However – there’s an ever-increasing number of people who 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, Click to Read More

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