Cat lover (37): First reason to love your cat: It makes your feet warm

Bonjour cat lover.
For cat owner, if you sleep with your cat, it will be well-known that your cat sometimes or many times, it likes to sleep on or beside you. Typical location is on your feet. That makes your feet warm although sometimes that is uncomfortable when you want to move or turn.

What are the reasons that your cat loves to sleep on your feet or on your body?
This is a difficult question as well as other animal behavioural question. You can not ask him to understand why he prefer you as his bed at night.

Animal psychology is a branch of science that make observation or experiment trying to explain the behaviour, normal or abnormal and variation. The success of understanding their behaviour will help predict what is going to be happenned and help in training or correction of misbehaviours.

We observe that cat usually sleep at the location that is warm and save. For domesticated cat and indoor, inroom cat, there is no place saver than  that. Therefore they look for the warm place normally, near the heater or the windows in a day time and you are the warm bed for your cat too. So it is not surprising that your cat learns to sleep on your body, one of the warmest place in the room. It is safe as you are his protector. Perfect niche, isn't it?

Someone said that your cat loves you, so it likes to sleep on  you or besides you. That's a very difficult answer to deduce from animal. What is animal affection? Parental bonding may be a form of animal affection. They love to be grooming, hug, play with their parents when they was kitten. When they grow up, the residula of this instinct might pass to you, their protectors. So they want your love, care, gentle hug, pets, feed and then they sleep besides you. How's sweet the story. ;D

Other theory about the cat and human connection is smelling. Cat uses and is very sensitive to smell. It make territories by rub and outdoor non neutered cats will spraying with their pee. When you go back home, they rub your legs and make you his territories. So when you go to bed, your feet are still his territories and he sleeps in this owned-place,make sense?

So the first reason to love your cat: It make your feet warm. :-)))))))))))))))))))))))))

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

Find more cat stories from the index at the right side of this article. Enjoy them and love your cat. :DDDD

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.

How many hours do a cat need for sleep daily?

Although the amount of time spent napping varies from cat to cat, and depends on the cat's age and personality, feline spend an average of 13 to 16 hours everyday curled up in slumber.