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Your New Cat: Why Are the First 24 Hours So Important? Part-2

Summarizing from article wrote By John Young

The author of the E-book: “Your New Cat’s First 24 Hours”

PREPARATIONS AND PRECAUTIONS

This situation could have been avoided, and Tiger could have been integrated quickly and easily into his new home if the people who adopted him had made some preparations and taken precautions.

What should you do before you bring a new cat home?

• Prepare the house to receive your new cat.
• Make sure your new cat’s medical needs are completely taken care of.
• Make sure your other cats are adequately protected from disease.
• Make sure you have on hand the things your cat will need.
• Know how to introduce your new cat to your live-in companions, children and other pets.
• Prepare yourself beforehand for a good relationship with your new cat.

People who have never owned cats before don’t really realize what a cat is: A highly intelligent, independent animal which needs love and affection daily – but is not a dog.

BONDING WITH YOU

Cats will bond with people, just as dogs do, but they don’t always bond with the person who has adopted them. It is during that period that your cat will decide whom she wants to bond with.

PREPARE YOUR HOME

Adequate preparation of the home is vitally important. If your new cat panics when she is first introduced and finds a way to exit your house, she will do so.

MEDICAL CONSEQUENCES

In addition, there may be serious medical consequences to adopting a stray, both to your new kitty and to your existing cats. Inadequate medical examination and vaccination can be tragic for the new addition to your family…and have serious consequences to your existing cats.

Unless you know what you are doing, your attempt to bring home a new kitty could result in tragedy.

EVERY CAT IS DIFFERENT

The bottom line is that no matter how many cats you have adopted, you still may not know what you are doing with THIS one.

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Your New Cat: Why Are the First 24 Hours So Important? Part 1.

Summarizing from article wrote By John Young

The author of the E-book: “Your New Cat’s First 24 Hours”,

Adoption in Haste

The staff of animal shelters greet people looking for new pets with both joy and misgiving. People walk between the cages, looking over each cat, and the staff hope they will select a cat that has been there for a long time.

But they know what the people are looking for; they are looking for kittens, not adult cats.

If there are no kittens, the customers will sometimes reluctantly choose an adult cat as a “consolation prize”, pay the adoption fees and cart him or her off…

Only to return the cat two or three days later.

“I’m sorry, but this cat just didn’t work out. “This cat is just too wild. We need something tamer, something that will fit in.”

The staff member asks.

“The cat bolted and hid. We need something tamer; something that will fit in better.”

So go the sad tales of the returnees… but wait, it can be worse for cats adopted in other ways.

• Prepare themselves for a good relationship with their new cat

People who have never owned cats before don’t really realize what a cat is: A highly intelligent, independent animal which needs love and affection daily – but is not a dog.

Cats will bond with people, just as dogs do, but they don’t always bond with the person who has adopted them. It is in during that period that your cat will decide whom she wants to bond with.

Time

A cat needs time spent with her. One of the big mistakes busy people make is to fail to realize that they have busy schedules that don’t allow them to spend enough time with their newly adopted cat.

This could ultimately result in your cat running off. If you have no time to spend with your cat, she will not choose your house as “her den”. She will go out searching for another one, and you could be soon reporting a “lost cat”.

Or, to your consternation, you will find that the cat you thought would be a loving companion has bonded with another member of your household…somebody who did have the time to spend.

Money

A lot of people don’t count the cost of pet ownership. In their exuberance to adopt a cat, they forget that they don’t have the budget to keep her. Many people shun pet medical insurance, not realizing that the same things that happen to people happen to cats, and can cost large sums of money to cure.

Medical Needs

Some people who adopt strays or cats owned by friends don’t realize the full extent of the medical attention their new cat needs:

• A complete physical examination

• A complete vaccination regimen

• Spaying or neutering

I made it an outdoor cat, and it died of feline leukemia. Your cat’s physical needs

When your cat climbs out of the carrier box for the first time, will you be equipped with the essentials?

Or, will you discover that you need these things later…and bring them in one at a time, after your cat has defecated in the corner, started scratching the furniture, or begun some other unauthorized behavior you are not prepared for? (And, be advised, a cat is a very obsessed animal…once she starts doing something, it is very hard to change it).

Making sure you have what you need to receive your new cat is vital…and you must have the basics on hand before you bring her home.

Your technique for doing that can be a deciding factor in whether or not your cat adapts to your home immediately, by the next day or the next month, or flees the house altogether.

Do you know how to take care of your new cat in the days to come, assuming you handled your first introductions well? Do you know about allergies, special foods, bathing, grooming, hair balls, removing urine, training and teaching without frightening and alienating her, and a multitude of other situations cat owners wrestle with on a daily basis? Do you know the hazards involved in letting her become an outdoor cat?

Be prepared

As you’ve often heard, ‘preparation is the key to success’, and nowhere does that apply more appropriately than to cat ownership. I say probably because every cat is different. Even with the best preparation by a knowledgeable owner, a cat may still want to hide for awhile. And if you discover that’s the case…

The Key

So, that’s why I wrote my book, “Your New Cat’s First 24 Hours”, www.yourcatsecrets.com, to give you everything you need to know and have, not only to get ready for your new cat and introduce her to your household, but to understand and care for her in the days to follow.

I’ve got to say it again: preparation…and knowledge… is the key. When you decide to adopt, I hope you won’t do it in haste.

I hope you will do it knowledgeably and with understanding.

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Interesting Facts about Cats

Cats are kept as domestic pets and the species has been living with us for thousands of years. There are many breeds of cat, including ones without hair and tails. They are capable of hunting many different types of species and are highly intelligent. How Do Cats Communicate?

They purr, meow and hiss. They also use body language and use a combination of these things when communicating with ‘fellow felines’. They are still capable of living in the wild.

Defining Terms

A male cat is known as a tom. The cute young variety are known as kittens. If the cat in question has registered ancestry, then it is referred to as a pedigree cat. Purebred cats constitute only one tenth of the total cat population.

How Long Do They Live?

If kept at home as domesticated pets, cats live a very long time. The oldest cat in recorded history lived to the grand age of thirty six. Generally speaking, cats that don’t venture outside tend to live longer because they don’t get into fights or risk injury from accidents.

How Much Sleep Do They Need?

Cats sleep… a lot ! Some cats though, will sleep the majority of the day ( up to twenty hours ). If only the average working person could enjoy such sleeping luxury.

Reading A Cats Body Language

If a cat is angry it will twitch the end of its tail. A tail held high in the air means your cat is happy, whereas a tail pointing down will usually indicate it is not happy. If you encounter a surprised cat, or one that is in fear, the hair on its back may become raised, along with its tail.

If a cat is happy and sitting on your lap, it may paw you.

Summarized From article written by: Sarah Parker

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Choosing Your New Cat Friend

By: Nadjib Salim

Having an indoor cat can bring years of enjoyable pleasure for you and your new pet friend. But, before you get your first cat, decide what your commitment to this relationship will be. How much devotion, cost, effort, and attention are you willing to provide to your new friend.

If this pet cat is new for you, maybe you should learn how to taking care of your cat before bringing your new friend home. And the best way to find out how to caring for cat is by asking to your friends who already have cats before. Your friend is an excellent resource for educating you on how to care a cat. But you could also find what you need from another source such as, books, pet shop owners, cat community owners, veterinarians, and of course the internet which you will find a million information about how to take care your new cat.

Before you decide which one (cat) you will take, probably you have to consider what kind of cat are you looking. Is that an adult cat? Or kitten. Female or male, short or long hair, allure or domestic cat, pedigree or non pedigree.

Kitten or adult cat?

For some people, a kitten is a funny and cute pet, but remembers, kitten is, just a new baby born. And like new other babies, you need to watch them carefully for every think, their food, their health, behavior etc. Otherwise an adult cat will capable more capable of attending their own personal care.

Female or Male?

Either female or male cats could become a wonderful friend for you. If the cat has been spayed or neutered, then the cat’s gender doesn’t play a huge role. In this mater, gender is not the option, just decide which one closer to your need.

Short or long hair

Some breeds shed more hair than others. Cats are fastidious groomers. Be prepared and not too surprised when they vomit a hairball from time to time, it is completely natural with little cause for alarm. The only one you have to do is routinely brushing them to collect their loose hair. Of course, you will need less routine brushing shorthair cats then the long hair one. It is also good for your friend to have a bath ones a while using special cat soap or shampoo, but not often.

Pedigree or non pedigree

some expect will pay more attention to pedigree, primarily because its allure. Lineage can be traced and its pedigree is probably more expensive than others. The other reasons why cat lovers will choose pedigree then non pedigree is their intention for invest breeding, competition or show. How about you? That your personal choice, depend on kind of cat you want, more cute or just usual, cheep or expensive.

One thinks you have to be sure, for some people pet cats are a wonderful friend and an addition to your family and will give you long of enjoyable pleasure.

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Cat Pictures:

Cat or kitty some time doing funny attraction and make us laugh or smile family and give us enjoyable pleasure. So that way million of people like them. Cats become an object of photography since the camera invented and likely in front of camera, cats are photogenic. Look at this pictures below, there are act ferry funny, aren’t they?

Pictures source: http://www.swapmeetdave.com

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