The bird hunting cat Possible causes: cats are depredators, and forms part of his nature to catch and eat little rodents and birds. So be it, this is his food if there is no person to care for them. That is why, this behavior has nothing to do with cruelty. If your cat hunts frequently, it must be due to not having other opportunities to exploit this instinct.Remedy: play with him, make him run, jump and hunt and offer him substitutes of the prey, like balls (or toy mice, so he can relieve a little his hunting and capture instinct and surely he will stop some of its real hunting. Resign yourself to not having bird nests with cats running throughout your garden or protect them with a last ticked wicket. Do not let your cat go to the garden during the birds nestling season. A cat will rarely catch a healthy adult bird, Cats can't stand each other: Possible causes: they are animals that have reached their sexual maturity, non castrated, that live in a shall area. specially, non-castrated cats can't live together in small reduced places. Due to its natural rivalry for territory. The defense of their territory is an hereditary behavior that can be more or less developed, it also can happen that after living peacefully for a long time. This can suddenly turn into an aggressive and fierce fighting anytime, or it could be that both animals never did accept each other from the beginning. Remedy: adult cats that are not to be used in breeding must be castrated. Also, it is true, that when making space there is for each animal, there will be fewer aggressions. You can't suddenly have a new cat shaking the objects and territory of your old times companion. At first, you have to protect the new cat with fence, even if the new cat is a kitten that normally are accepted by all. The cats have to get used to each other and through the fence they can see, shell and hear each other without having full contact. If after some days, they seem calm which each other, you may put them together without surveillance. There are cats that will never accept another cat in his territory, in that case one will have to go to a new home. |
