Cat Training Part-2
Cats can learn dozens of activities. It is not necessary to
train a cat to use litter box because mother cats train their
kittens to use litter box. Cats can also be trained for using
toilet. A kitten can learn to use toilet at the age of just
three weeks. A cat of more than six months age can be easily
trained to use toilet. The books How To Toilet Train Your Cat:
21 Days To A Litter Free Home, How To Toilet Train Your Cat: The
Education Of Mango, No More Litter: How To Train Your Cat To Use
The Toilet and Hello, Potty are now available at
http://www.amazon.com/ for toilet training of cats. Cats can
understand their owner's mood. A cat can recognize its owner's
footsteps. Some outdoor cats learn to cross traffic. Cats can be
trained for walking and dancing with the help of two legs.
Dancing classes of cats are conducted in USA. The book Dancing
With Cats by Burton Silver, Heather Busch and Shakya Bahrain is
now available at http://www.amazon.com/ . For online information
about dancing with cats visit website
www.monpa.com/dwc/index.html. The earliest written record of a
cat dancing with a person dates back from 1692. Cats can be
trained for various exercises like aerobics and Yoga. The books
Yoga For Cats by Trandi Reiner and Walter Reiner, Yoga For Cats
by Talia Katasanda, Yoga For Cats by Erica Rutherford and Yoga
For Cats by Christienne Wadsworth are now available at
http://www.amazon.com/. For information about yoga for cats
visit the website http://www.yogakitty.com/. Cats are born
meditators. For information about meditation by cats, visit the
website http://www.catanna.com/ and website
www.catanna.com/mandala.htm. Cats can draw paintings without
training. In USA and New Zealand paintings drawn by cat artists
are sold in exhibitions. The cats draw paintings since ancient
Egyptian times. Some good looking paintings drawn by artist cats
are sold for more than ten thousand dollars. A good looking
painting drawn by a cat was sold for seventy five thousand
dollars. Visit online exhibitions of paintings drawn by cats at
website www.monpa.com/wcp/exhibition1/index.html and website
www.monpa.com/wcp/exhibition1/aviary.html. Books like Why Cats
Paint: A Theory Of Feline Aesthetics by Heather Busch and Burton
Silver and Cat Artists and Their Work by Heather Busch and
Burton Silver are now available at http://www.amazon.com/. The
book Why Cats Paint contains many photographs of good paintings
drawn by cats. For more information on paintings drawn by cats
visit the websites www.freddie-street.com/guide/wcpaint.shtml ,
www.lookoutnow.com/feline/catpaint.htm,
www.creativity-portal.com/main/blog/111503.html,
www.sfspca.org/behaviour/catpainting.shtml and website
www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~mprice/why%20do%20cats%20paint.txt. Cats can
be trained for playing Piano, violin and other musical
instruments. The public houses in which a cat play a violin are
known as The Cat And Fiddle. Many books like The Cat and The
Fiddle, The Cat & The Fiddle & More, A Cat With A Fiddle and Cat
Goes Fiddle-I-Fee are now available at http://www.amazon.com/.
Cats can be trained to walk on a leash. Cats learn many
activities by observation. Cats are easiest to train out of all
domestic animals. Cats of four to five months old are easiest to
train. Cats can learn dozens of activities like handshaking with
paw, begging, opening door, turning on lights, jumping through
hoop, opening windows, opening refrigerators, playing musical
instruments, eating food with the help of their paws, ringing
bell, acting dead, rolling on floor on command, hide food in
boxes and walking on a leash. Cats quickly learn tricks like
fetching a toy or object, sitting on command, jumping through a
hoop and walking on a rope. Cats can easily learn many tricks.
For training of cats, visit the animal planet channel website at
http://animal.discovery.com/guides/cats/behaviour ricks.html and
website http://animal.discovery.com/guides/cats raining
hebasicsintro.html. The cat pays attention to those things that
are related to its own interest. Sometimes cats also learn
something on their own without observation or training like
grabbing doorknobs to get out, hiding food in boxes, opening
windows to get in and opening refrigerators to eat food. Visit
the website of animal planet channel at
http://animal.discovery.com/guides/cats/behaviour/practice.html.
The cats has an innate sense of curiosity. It is aware of
strange objects, contents of an open drawer and objects in
motion. The cat or kitten, more than any other animal, is full
of trepidations. The cat or kitten first puts a paw toward a new
thing, touches it timidly, then proceeds more decisively, and
only after that smells it, but the dog or puppy, curious to know
the world, smells everything that comes its way. During World
War I, cats were sent by the British army to sea to test
submarines and some cats were sent to trenches to warn about gas
attacks. Cats communicate their wants and needs to their owners.
Cats can recognize their owner's mood. Sense of taste in cats is
equivalent to human beings. Cats have the ability to use
biological clock, earth's magnetic field and angle of sun. Out
of all other mammals only cats have homing instinct. Cats can
return back to their owners home from thousands of kilometers
away without any help because of its sharp memory. Cats love
their owner's home. A cat of USA returned back alone from New
York to its owner's new home in California after walking a
distance of two thousand three hundred miles without any help. A
cat of USA named Sugar returned back alone from California to
its owner home in Oklahoma after walking a distance of two
thousand and four hundred kilometers without any help. A cat of
USA named Ninja returned back alone from its owner's new home in
Washington State to its owner's old home in Utah State after
walking a distance of eight hundred fifty miles without any
help. A cat returned back alone from Nievre in France to its
owner's home in Stuttgart in south west Germany after walking a
distance of about thousand kilometers without any help.
Similarly a cat of England named Sooty returned back alone to
its owner's old home after walking a distance of hundred miles
without any help. A cat returned back alone to its owner's home
after walking a distance of ninety miles without any help while
another cat returned back alone to its owner's home after
walking a distance of eighty miles without any help. Cats like
to play games like chasing light, hide and seek and many ball
games. Cats enjoy playing with toys and watching television.
Many video cassettes specially designed for cats are now
available in the market. The cat toys include action toys, toy
mouse, soft toys, Ping-Pong balls, catnip toys, race n'chase,
feather toys, kitten mitten and balls. Toys for cats are
available at http://www.cattoys.com/ ,
http://www.ferretstore.com/ and http://www.petsmart.com/. A
CD-ROM game for cats that offers the computer literate cat
eleven big game options, including virtual mice, spiders and
birds that skitter around is now available at the internet site
http://www.cyberpounce.com/. Cats are strongly attached to
catnip. Catnip is strong scented mint that has whorls of small
pale flowers in terminal spikes and contains a substance
attractive to cats. The catnip is used in making many cat toys.
For more information about cats visit the website
www.moggies.co.uk/index.html. Some outdoor cats themselves learn
to cross traffic. Cats have also been employed in many glamorous
jobs. Bob, the weather cat is regular on a television station in
Oregon wore sunglasses on bright days and earmuffs and a scarf
when the weather turned chilly. In England as recently as fifty
years ago, thousands of cats were on the government payrolls,
working in offices, barracks, workshops and on the docks. The
National Printing Office of France has employed cats to protect
its paper, as has the USA postal service. The Butchers, Bakers,
Grocers, restaurant owners, book store owners, stationary owners
and food industry owners keep pet cats in order to keep their
premises free of rats. The amount of love that a mother cat
provides to her kittens is highest as compared to all other
animals. The stray female cat is excellent mother. Cat
understands when the moment of giving birth is near. When the
time of giving birth is near, the female cat begins to appear
agitated and meows in a strange way, sweet and musical, a kind
of request for help and response to what is approaching. The
female cat try to give birth in a corner where she can
eventually defend herself and newborn kittens from dogs and
other animals. After giving birth the mother cat will
immediately free each kitten from the sac, lick it, clean it and
gently dry it. After giving birth, the female cat transfer her
litter from one hiding place to another in order to protect it
from dogs and other animals. The mother cat clean and feed the
newborn kittens. The mother cat teach its kittens to play, to
hunt, to climb, to clean and to use toilet. When living
outdoors, the cat learns to protect itself from the cold and
rain by taking refuge in a doorway basement or in abandoned box.
When the end of life of cat is near, cat try to find a secluded
spot in which to die with dignity, either under a bush, in the
trunk of a tree or a crumbled hut so as not to disturb or be
disturbed in the moment of the most quiet sleep. Many cats are
now working in movies. Morris was the famous cat who worked on
television. Cats specially wild cats like lion perform in
circus. Toonces, a male cat was so much intelligent that he was
able to actually drive car, truck and tractor. Toonces liked to
ride bicycle. Toonces was also able to communicate in English by
means of typing. Toonces worked in 1988 in NBC's Saturday Night
Live in which he actually drove cars. Toonces was one of the
most talented cats on television. Toonces worked at Saturday
night live with many familiar celebrities. The television
parents of Toonces were Saturday Night Live regulars Victoria
Jackson and Dana Carvey. Toonces also worked at Saturday Night
Live with many other co - stars like Steve Martin, Andrea
Martin, Randy Quaid. Video film of Toonces driving car can be
downloaded at the website www.catass.com oonces and at website
www.whataboutcats/mpeg_toonces.html. Video film of toonces
driving car is now available at http://www.amazon.com/. For more
information about Toonces visit website www.wrona.com
oonces.html and also visit website www.mavericktimes.com
oonces.html . A cat named Pepper was a motion picture cat who
starred next to the comedian Charlie Chaplin. Britain's best
known television cat was Arthur. Arthur starred in more than
three hundred television commercials between 1966 and 1975.
Thomas Alva Edison Inc. manufacturing company of scientist
Thomas Alva Edison earliest movies showed two cats fighting
boxing in a ring. Many cats are now working in movies. Visit the
movie cats page at www.fmi.uni-passau.de/~zimmerth/mcp/.
According to news published in newspaper, in June 2001, a cat
named Borris managed to order 450 cans of its favourite food on
an internet shopping site when its owner was not looking.
According to website of T.V Series of Animal Planet channel of
Discovery channel, some cats also enjoy surfing the internet. A
software to prevent the use of computer and internet by cats is
now available at the website http://www.pawsense.com/ and at the
website www.bitboost.com/bb_welcome.html. A book named Cats Into
Everything by Bob Walker is now available at the website
http://www.amazon.com/.