About This Book

🐱✨ **Understanding Feline Behavior** - Kittens should ideally stay with their mother and littermates for 12 weeks to develop proper social skills; early separation can lead to behavioral issues. 👃💞 **Scent Communication** - Cats use scent for identification, bonding, and marking territory; behaviors like cheek rubbing indicate trust and affection. 🛋️🏠 **Creating a Cat-Friendly Environment** - Provide vertical spaces (like cat trees) and multiple resources (food, litter boxes) to reduce territorial disputes and enhance comfort. 🎮🐾 **Interactive Playtime** - Engage in daily interactive play sessions using wand toys to simulate hunting, which helps with bonding and alleviating stress. 🚫🐾 **Avoiding Conflict** - Understand and respect each cat's personal space and communication signals to prevent aggression and foster a peaceful multi-cat household.

Top Highlights

• With indoor cats, kittens are generally separated from the mother too early by people wanting to adopt them out (kittens should be kept with the mother and littermates for twelve weeks). In free-roaming environments, kittens usually stay with the mother longer. Female kittens, once they leave the mother, will generally stay within the same area, wh...
• When your cat jumps in your lap, goes nose-to-nose with you, and then turns to present his backside, you may have considered this distasteful, but it’s very polite in terms of feline social etiquette, and you should feel complimented (though you don’t have to respond in kind!). Another often misinterpreted behavior is when a cat lounges with his ba...
• While we humans rely on verbal communication, cats use multiple methods. Cats are territorial animals who choose to avoid conflict whenever possible, so maximizing communication skills can mean the difference between injury and safety, and, in some cases, life and death. The more skilled you are at being able to interpret what your cats are communi...
• Scent is used for identification of members in a colony or multicat environment, to announce reproductive availability, to gain information about unfamiliar cats in the vicinity, and is also a form of covert or subtle aggression. Scent is important for bonding, familiarity, self-soothing, and territory identification.
• The way that cats deposit scents, and which glands they use, provides information about what they’re feeling at the time. Scent glands located around the head are associated with bonding and familiarity. Facial pheromones are known as the friendly pheromones. A cat may rub her cheek along an object she considers part of her territory. She may also ...