undesirable Behaviors

To investigate in the flowerpots

The habit of the cats to investigate in the flowerpots of the interior of the home or like the larges flowerpot of the outside, that use as ?bath? is very annoying for the lovers of the gardening, adding if vagabond cats without sanitary control with the risks do that carry by I infect of diseases when manipulating earth contaminated with fecal matter and tinkles of the felines.
If our cat takes the habit to do it in neighboring gardens, soon we will be unpopular in the district, to avoid problems with the vicinity is to accustom it that it uses the sanitary stones or a portion of our patio with earth destined to that aim (a form to stimulate them to that they make its necessities in that place, is to remove the Earth frequently, since it pleases the loose Earth to them because they can investigate and cover with facility).
The solution so that they do not investigate flowerpots can be to surround them with screen to avoid the access of the cat, to place naftalina balls to repel them, repelentes commercial, but most effective it is to surround to the plants with worn out stone (it burdens).

Street fights
A cat without castrating is predispueto to have fights with other cats of the district by the territory, the natural instinct of the male pushes to defend it its territory in front of other males and to look for females with whom to mate.
The not castrated male cat, in the city, this prone one to contract serious diseases that are transmitted by the saliva, in the mordeduras caused by fights by the territory and the females, favoring the appearance of the feline leukemia and the syndrome of feline immunodeficiency, both incurables pathologies; the risk runs of being run over by a car, died by dogs, intoxicated, baleado.
As they mark the territory that them pertencece with chorritos of tinkles in

it forms of ?spray?, tinkle our house and the one of the neighbors, caused problems of coexistence in the vicinity.
In addition castrating male and females, on the one hand we improved its quality of life and by another one, we are collaborating so that it exists a smaller density of animals and less puppies left in the public thoroughfare.

To bite interior plants
To the cats, frequently, they have the habit to bite the interior plants, more yes it is a department animal that does not have access to grass, is common that they ingest green gramíneas when they have the possibility of arriving at them to be able to chew them, in addition cause the vomit and of that form they eliminate balls of hairs that ingest when higienizar themselves. One is due to avoid to have interior plants that are

toxic for them like Poinsettia, Chinese Naranjito, Diefenbaquia, Pea of scent, Clemátide, Azalea, Rosebay, Delphinium, Rododendro, Lupin, Rose of Christmas. A flowerpot seeded with turf can be offered to the pussycat and will be so that it can bite to pleasure.
The solution so that it does not bite the other plants is to sprinkle its leaves with lemon juice, but it works, is possible to there be dew with water (single) using a sprayer at the moment that is biting the plant! , to do it outside that moment does not have sense and the cat will not interpret it as a punishment to bite the plant.

To scratch furniture, curtains and carpets
A cat nonspider the furniture or curtains only for ?spending? the nails, but also to mark its territory like signal in front of other felines. The more locked up, boring or scared one feels like the animal, the more tendency will have to mark his house.
It is necessary to consider when the furniture, curtains and carpets are chosen, are materiarales that are irresistible for the cats, that is more porous and rough they are the surfaces plus will use them to scratch.
Scrapers like a trunk or tree trunk of 30 or 40 cm of stop with a good crust or some commercial product are due to use, that consists of a surrounded equipment of thread wood

thickness and the smooth surfaces are covered by carpet fabric.
It is necessary to train the cat so that it is accustomed to rascar in that place, and the furniture and curtains to put repelentes or to rub them with naftalina small balls, until it changes the habit and it prefers the trunk or scraper.

Cubil of isolation or ?sanctuary?
Not to forget that the cats need ?their? place isolation where certain moments of the day or night, they wish to be single and relaxed in a place that feels like isolated prote'ge's and, generally, they choose high places and closed, if it is possible, a ?sanctuary? in some place of the house is due to construct to him where they feel like more comfortable and prote'ge's of noises, other animals, people, etc.
It must be a closed affluent cubil, in penumbra, sheltered and in a high place, one thinks that the cats prefer the high sites by the fact that more insurances feel, ?dominate? all the place and have one more a ampler vision of the atmosphere.
To the ?sanctuary? it is possible to be embellished with I touch decorative, to put some to him of its preferred toys, also this type of ?cave? can at some time help to the relaxation or hiding place of the cats that they feel like discomforts with the situation that happens in the house, as visits, children playing, noises, bricklayers, people that speak strong, movements of changes of furniture or new arrival of some household-electric one, celebrations, that is everything that breaks what they consider a ?home calm?, this prevention can help to avoid a situation of anxiety and stress, triggered by some of the reasons previously named.

As I avoid that it jumps
As I avoid that it steps on the keyboard of the computer

 

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Pageat, P.: President of the G.E.C.A.F. (Groupe d'étude du comportement DES animaux familiers)
Translation: MVZ Stéphane Meder V.
Manual of the care of the Cat: Andrew Edney, Editorial Javier Vergara.
Menassé, V.: Libro of the Cat.
Encyclopedia the CAT: Publishing Planet - DeAgostini.

Author: MV Enrique L Fernandez De Vanna

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