May 6th, 2013 | by
Pam Johnson-Bennett | published in Basic Training, Featured Posts, Training Guidelines |
It looks innocent enough. It’s a little plastic squirt bottle sitting on the kitchen counter. In that plastic bottle is plain tap water. That little plastic bottle, as innocent as it looks, has become the tool that is destroying the bond you share with your cat. The reason? You’re using the squirt bottle to deter [...]
April 22nd, 2013 | by
Pam Johnson-Bennett | published in Basic Training, Featured Posts, Playtime |
Playtime is a very important part of your cat’s daily life. No matter how old she is, she’ll benefit from having frequent opportunities to stalk, chase, pounce and capture. In an outdoor environment a cat would typically engage in about 12-20 hunting attempts. That doesn’t mean she’d successfully capture 20 mice, but she’d give it [...]
March 12th, 2013 | by
Pam Johnson-Bennett | published in Fearful Behavior, Featured Posts, What's Bugging Kitty? |
It’s a sound every cat parent has heard at some point. Even if your cat is the sweetest little kitty on the planet, if she has ever felt threatened or needed to send a warning to someone (feline, canine or human), she has probably hissed at some point. Hissing may seem like a comical sound [...]
March 8th, 2013 | by
Pam Johnson-Bennett | published in Basic Training, Family and Home, Social Interaction |
Does kitty dive under the bed whenever the doorbell rings? Or maybe he stands his ground and hisses whenever company comes to visit? Maybe you even have a cat who offers a pre-emptive strike and attempts to immediately sink his teeth into the flesh of anyone who dares enter your home. Here’s a training exercise [...]
January 28th, 2013 | by
Pam Johnson-Bennett | published in Fearful Behavior, Featured Posts, What's Bugging Kitty? |
Thunderstorms can be very unsettling. Typically, when it comes to our pets, dogs are the ones who end up shaking, crying or hiding when Mother Nature displays a sound and light show, but many cats also become nervous. If thunderstorms cause anxiety to your cat, here are five tips to help you maintain a calm [...]
July 31st, 2012 | by
Pam Johnson-Bennett | published in Fearful Behavior, Featured Posts, What's Bugging Kitty? |
Cats usually love to play by hiding in things. Whether it’s an open paper bag or a box, your playful cat will find a way to make a game out of jumping in it or will use it as an opportunity for an extra napping place. It’s an important part of environmental enrichment to be [...]
June 7th, 2012 | by
Pam Johnson-Bennett | published in Basic Training, Fearful Behavior, Featured Posts, Indoor Problems, What's Bugging Kitty? |
The vacuum cleaner is something that is brought out of the closet on a regular basis in most homes. For some cats, this is no big deal but for many kitties, fear of the vacuum cleaner can trigger total panic. Even if a cat has lived in the home with that dreaded vacuum cleaner year [...]
May 21st, 2012 | by
Pam Johnson-Bennett | published in Family and Home, Featured Posts, Home Sweet Home |
Making the transition from outdoor life to indoor life can be a relatively easy one for a cat if you set up the indoor environment to be as interesting as the one kitty is about to leave behind. It will also be much safer. What if the Cat Has Never Been Indoors? First on the [...]
March 29th, 2012 | by
Pam Johnson-Bennett | published in Fearful Behavior, Featured Posts, What's Bugging Kitty? |
Stress. It’s something most of us deal with on a regular basis. Whether it’s work-related, due to health issues, family problems, or because of financial concerns, there are so many opportunities for stress to set up camp in our lives. When you think of what your cat goes through during the day do you ever [...]
March 12th, 2012 | by
Pam Johnson-Bennett | published in Family and Home, Featured Posts, Intercat Relationships |
Cats, despite what you may have been told, are not solitary creatures and many of them benefit from having feline companions. That said, cats are also territorial so the introduction process requires some finesse and patience. If you just toss the cats together with a “they’ll work it out themselves” mentality, you will put a [...]
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