SLEEP SLEEP SLEEPING CAT

We typically see our cat sleeps nearly all the time. And many people believe that it is a nocturnal animal that awakes and hunts in the nighttime. This believe seems to be both right and wrong. Cat needs many hours of sleep, range from 12-16 hours daily. It needs to digest food that it consumes and keeps energy for next hunting times. Although in natural, cat's usual prey like rats and small animals are nocturnal animals, cat also likes birds, fish and other animals that is typically non-nocturnal creatures. And cat does have a lot of activities during day light. Hence, we can not say that cat is typically nocturnal animal.
In its daily routine, it will hunt several times for food which are typicall small animals and has them several times a day. It will take a nap between that hinting-feeding time. But in domestic cats, we usually feed them regularly with two or three meals a day. So they have plenty time to plays and sleep rather than hunting. This has some negative effects to their health. Domestic cat tends to be overweighted if they do not have enough activities and overfeed. They don't have any exercises in contrast to hunting time in nature.
If we feed them with dry cat food, they might learn to have it small amount at a time and several times a day like in their natural life. After feeding, they will groom themselves and then find a quiet and safe place to sleep and when they awake, they will become fresh and ready to play with us. Domestic cat also adapts very well with our routine day-night time by take a long nap when it's owner is out to work and wake and play with us when we arrive home. It also sleep quite long in the night corresponded with our sleep time. If it does not adapt with these schedules, we would not see many of us let their beloved cat sleep on the same bed in the bedroom. :D

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Cat loves to sleep.

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Cat is cute.

Cat has kitten.

Cat is furry.

Cat purr happily.

Cat kneads us.

We like to pet the cat.

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QUIZ

Who can answer what is the cat doing?

Rolling cat

Roll roll roll your boat gently down the stream
Merily Merily

Lullaby Meow Meow Meow

Cat and Grass?

Cat Oat Grass and Cat Wheat Grass are cereal grasses. The oat grass is widely cultivated for its edible seeds. Our popular breakfast oat cereals and wheat cereals are made from the seeds of these plants! The wheat grass is also widely cultivated for its commercially important grain. Athletes and other health conscious people have made juicing the wheat grass very popular. They drink the wheat juice for its high concentrated levels of vitamins and minerals. However, there is yet no scientific proof that a cat is capable of extracting nutrients from ingesting plants, while there is extensive proof that they are purely carnivorous and derive all of their necessary vitamins from eating meat.





When the oat seed or wheat seed is planted it produces beautiful, healthy green blades rich in chlorophyll (a natural breath freshener), antioxidants (helps fights cancer), vitamins, minerals and amino acids. While this may be healthy for humans, it is not known or proven whether it has any benefit for cats. It is also known that certain plant products can be very harmful to cats; in the case of cat grass, it may be better for a cat to avoid eating mature cat grass, because the oats it produces can damage their digestive tract. Immature cat grass seems to pose no harmful effects.





Among the possible explanations for why cats enjoy eating grass, here are a few that are commonly postulated, but as yet unproven (except perhaps for the fourth one):

1.) Aids in a healthy digestion, and helps move hairballs along. Instead of coughing up the hairball, the hairball is more likely to be passed through your cat's digestive system.

2.) Great source of fiber (roughage) in your cat's diet.

3.) Contains chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is a natural substance that makes grass green and acts as a natural breath freshener for your cat.

4.) Cat Oat Grass and Cat Wheat Grass taste great to your cat.

How do I remove cat hairs from my shirt?

There are two ways you can remove the hair: 1) With a lint roller / tape or 2) with rubber gloves.



1. Lint roller / tape



Both of these are sticky and remove the cat hair quickly. You can buy lint rollers everywhere these days...Target, Walmart, Dollar Stores, grocery stores, pet shops. These are cheap and very effective.



Tape also works. Press the tape (sticky side down) onto the hair and lift. Repeat with clean tape until the hair is gone.

2. Rubber gloves.

This method is easily to do if you're actually wearing the shirt. Put the rubber gloves on your hands and wet them slightly. Then rub the shirt. The hair will pile up into easy-to-handles clumps. Then just toss the air in the trash.



Playtex-type gloves work best.

Lesson2: training a cat on leash

Next, attach the leash to the harness and let kitty walk around the house, dragging the leash. Watch him carefully that he doesn't get tangled up around furniture.


Praise him for being such a good cat, and give him some loving hugs.

Repeat steps 8 and 9 for a few days, until the cat seems to accept the harness and leash.

Now, let him walk around as usual, but pick up the business end of the leash and follow him in his wanderings. Keep the tension slack, so as not to restrict his movement.

Practice step 11 for a few days.

Teach kitty to follow you by talking to him in a cajoling manner and lightly pulling on the lead. Don't fight him. Leash-training should be a pleasurable experience for the cat, not an adversarial one. On the other hand, if he tugs at the leash, simply stop until he relaxes, then move on.

You're ready to move outdoors now. Do it gradually, and take your first short excursions in your own back yard, or in a quiet area.

Gradually increase his exposure to the sights, sounds and smells of the outdoors. Soon, the two of you will be able to enter walkathons together.

List of Toxic Plants for Cats (List is not all inclusive)


Eating house plants is a common behavior in cats that do not get vegetable matter in their diet. By providing a small flower pot with grass or catnip, an owner often can eliminate the problem. For the cat that has developed a habit or preference, putting the plant where the cat cannot get to it or using aversive taste-smell conditioning with pepper sauce or vinegar usually works. You can also use a fine mist water sprayer at the cat when caught in the act or other scare tactics like making a loud noise to startle it.



Listed here are plants poisonous to cats that must be avoided if there are cats in your home. Note that lilies, in particular, are dangerous to cats. While in some cases, just parts of a plant (bark, leaves, seeds, berries, roots, tubers, spouts, green shells) might be poisonous, this list rules out the whole plant. If you must have any of them, keep them safely out of reach.



Should your cat eat part of a poisonous plant, rush the cat to your veterinarian as soon as possible. If you can, take the plant with you for ease of identification.





Alfalfa

Almond (Pits of)

Aloe Vera

Alocasia

Amaryllis

Apple (seeds)

Apple Leaf Croton

Apricot (Pits of)

Arrowgrass

Asparagus Fern

Autumn Crocus

Avacado (fuit and pit)

Azalea



Baby's Breath

Baneberry

Bayonet

Beargrass

Beech

Belladonna

Bird of Paradise

Bittersweet

Black-eyed Susan

Black Locust

Bleeding Heart

Bloodroot

Bluebonnet

Box

Boxwood

Branching Ivy

Buckeyes

Buddist Pine

Burning Bush

Buttercup

Cactus, Candelabra

Caladium

Calla Lily

Castor Bean

Ceriman

Charming Dieffenbachia

Cherry (pits, seeds & wilting leaves)

Cherry, most wild varieties

Cherry, ground

Cherry, Laurel

Chinaberry

Chinese Evergreen

Christmas Rose

Chrysanthemum

Cineria

Clematis

Cordatum

Coriaria

Cornflower

Corn Plant

Cornstalk Plant

Croton

Corydalis

Crocus, Autumn

Crown of Thorns

Cuban Laurel

Cutleaf Philodendron

Cycads

Cyclamen



Daffodil

Daphne

Datura

Deadly Nightshade

Death Camas

Devil's Ivy

Delphinium

Decentrea

Dieffenbachia

Dracaena Palm

Dragon Tree

Dumb Cane



Easter Lily *

Eggplant

Elaine

Elderberry

Elephant Ear

Emerald Feather

English Ivy

Eucalyptus

Euonymus

Evergreen

Ferns

Fiddle-leaf fig

Florida Beauty

Flax

Four O'Clock

Foxglove

Fruit Salad Plant



Geranium

German Ivy

Giant Dumb Cane

Glacier IvyGolden Chain

Gold Dieffenbachia

Gold Dust Dracaena

Golden Glow

Golden Pothos

Gopher Purge



Hahn's Self-Branching Ivy

Heartland Philodendron

Hellebore

Hemlock, Poison

Hemlock, Water

Henbane

Holly

Honeysuckle

Horsebeans

Horsebrush

Horse Chestnuts

Hurricane Plant

Hyacinth

Hydrangea



Indian Rubber Plant

Indian Tobacco

Iris

Iris Ivy



Jack in the Pulpit

Janet Craig Dracaena

Japanese Show Lily *

Java Beans

Jessamine

Jerusalem Cherry

Jimson Weed

Jonquil

Jungle Trumpets



Kalanchoe



Lacy Tree Philodendron

Lantana

Larkspur

Laurel

Lily

Lily Spider

Lily of the Valley

Locoweed

Lupine



Madagascar Dragon Tree

Marble Queen

Marigold

Marijuana

Mescal Bean

Mexican Breadfruit

Miniature Croton

Mistletoe

Mock Orange

Monkshood

Moonseed

Morning Glory

Mother-in Law's Tongue

Morning Glory

Mountain Laurel

Mushrooms

Narcissus

Needlepoint Ivy

Nephytis

Nightshade

Oleander

Onion

Oriental Lily *



Peace Lily

Peach (pits and wilting leaves)

Pencil Cactus

Peony

Periwinkle

Philodendron

Pimpernel

Plumosa Fern

Poinciana

Poinsettia (low toxicity)

Poison Hemlock

Poison Ivy

Poison Oak

Pokeweed

Poppy

Potato

Pothos

Precatory Bean

Primrose

Privet, Common



Red Emerald

Red Princess

Red-Margined Dracaena

Rhododendron

Rhubarb

Ribbon Plant

Rosemary Pea

Rubber Plant

Saddle Leaf Philodendron



Sago Palm

Satin Pothos

Schefflera

Scotch Broom

Silver Pothos

Skunk Cabbage

Snowdrops

Snow on the Mountain

Spotted Dumb Cane

Staggerweed

Star of Bethlehem

String of Pearls

Striped Dracaena

Sweetheart Ivy

Sweetpea

Swiss Cheese plant



Tansy Mustard

Taro Vine

Tiger Lily *

Tobacco

Tomato Plant (green fruit, stem and leaves)

Tree Philodendron

Tropic Snow Dieffenbachia

Tulip

Tung Tree



Virginia Creeper



Water Hemlock

Weeping Fig

Wild Call

Wisteria Yews --

e.g. Japanese Yew

English Yew

Western Yew

American Yew

List compiled by Jeffrey D. Rakes

Yoga-like posting cat

If you think about a cat, you will remember how the different seemingly impossible yoga-like poses your cat can distort into. Due to the relative flexibility of a cat's skeletal system but in particular the backbone, most of these incredible positions can be possible.


A domestic cat has five more number of backbones than a human and they are joined by extremely flexible soft bone (cartilage-like material) that allows for freedom of movement. This is necessary for a predator in the wild. The more flexible spine allows for free range of movement and quick motion.

Wild cats rely on their spines for a fast springing action that allows them to pounce into action and leap onto unwary prey like when you see cheetahs and lions hunt for their prey in documentaries. Domestic cats do the same thing when they jump onto an unsuspecting mouse, birds or toy. Cats hunker down, flick their tails, and suddenly spring up silently and grab their target with powerful front paws and clamp their jaws to immobilize their quarry.

The spine's flexibility also comes into play during high speed chases when sudden turns and bursts of speed are essential. The spine can bend and flex in tune with a felines hips and legs to turn in seemingly impossible directions to quickly outflank prey. A cat's spine is built for one quick and frenetic pace for hunting and then rest for after the meal.



Credit: William Browning, Yahoo! Contributor Network

Development of hearing in cat

When kitten is born, its ears is still closed as same as its eyes. The ears will be opened about 8th-14th day. Kitten can follow the sound by 7th day and start using this to exploring its world by 13th-16th day. Kitten can remember its sibling and owner sound by 3rd -4th week.


Cat is able to percept sound in wider frequency range than human. It percepts frequency from 20 Hz-100kHz. The ultrasonic frequency is the same range as bat ear ability. Cat has large ears to localize prey in the dark. It can detect object separates only 5 degree at 75% accuracy.

Cat comedy

                                                                1. drink some milk

                                                                2. I feel strange!

3. Arkkkkk! What's wrong with me!

                                                                4. I am gonna die!

                                                                           5. RIP

6. Eh! I am still alive!

Cat vision development (6)

Old traditional believe is cat is color blindness. However, cat’s retina has color differentiable cell. Its best frequency detection is in blue zone. This color vision is not necessary for cat’s hunter life.

cat vision development (5)

The motion things capture capacity is very good. Cats can detect things that move with only 0.4 cm/second. Each eye has visual field spanning from 155 to 208.5 degree and has 90 to 130 degree of overlapping field.

cat vision development (4)

Although the sensitivity to light is better in cat than in human, scattering of lights in the eye balls due to may layers of photoreceptors cell make the resolution worse in cat than in human. Literally, all cats also have some myopia (short-sighted) due to poor lens accommodation to near vision.

Cat Vision Development (3)

Cat eyes aid them to be the good hunters.

The important features are wide visual field and good night vision.

The characteristics of cat eyes

1. Cornea and lens are big and more curved than human's eyes.

2. Pupi is rapidly react to light from a round fully dilated to a slit-like

3. Large numbers of rod photocensitive cells. These cells are very reactive in a dim light.

Cat needs only one-sixth of amount of light that human needs to detect object.

Cat Vision Development (2)

Cat vision and learning starts when the eyes has opened during 5th-14th days. Although the eyes have opened, the visual acuity will be fully developed at about 25th day. Binocular vision will be mature around 47th day. Eyes development will be equal mature cat at 2 month age. Cat vision development is important for the wild cat which is originally the hunter. Domestic cat is still preserved its hunter characteristic through its life.

Cat Vision development

When cat is born, its eye is still closed. The eye structure development is occurred within 3 weeks. Visual cortex electric potential of cat will start from day 4. The electroretinogram signal can be detected from the cat's sixth day of live. Its eyes wil be opened on day 8 at average. (5-14 days) The cat's eyes will be opened completely on day 17.