CAT AND FAMILY

How cats live in family and in your home.
Even though cats were domesticated thousands of years before, a lot of their manners remained misunderstood up until current times. The night-time predators that share our lives have wonderful abilities to hear, see and smell things that we cannot. This, along with exceptional physical abilities and sharp cleverness, create complex behavior pattern that remained a mystery during the thousands of years.
The Cat's View of Territory
Cats are territory protective pets. In the nature, cats establish an area where it sleeps and. It is there home base and home range - where it hunts and mates. The area size generally based on to availability of food.
Cats mark their territory by:
1. Scratching (leaving visual as well as a scent marks)
2. Spraying
3. Urine or feces deposits
4. Rubbing
The spraying and urine and feces marking provide other cats with information about the individual cat (like sex, age, and health) as well as when he was last there. Marking posts are read like a newspaper and read frequently.
The cats in your home establish territories just as their wild counterparts do. You might find it interesting to note where each of your cats rests at different times of the day and then check to see if this pattern holds true over a period of a few days.

Play Cure or the Therapy for Playful Aggression
We can get the cat out of the jungle, but we can't get the jungle out of the cat. There is a petite tiger in each house cat, a solitary predator that needs to work out its hunting skills. Fortunately, it is not always necessary for the prey to be alive, but it must move. We may have confined the cat within four walls, feed it with the premium feline food, but we cannot pay no attention to its basic need to hunt.

Some people often scared by playfully aggressive cats and kittens because they look pretty dangerous. They silently ambush feet and ankles as they pass by, surprising, upsetting, and sometimes, even hurting, the victim. In some cases the cat owners have unintentionally skilled their cat to be a feline terrorist by playing with it as a kitten with their hands or feet. Now that the pet is bigger and stronger, those playful pounces and bites puncture the skin. The solution is to direct the cat's playful, predatory, energies toward toys instead of body parts

Dogs and Cats May Prevent
Allergies in Kids.
It is strongly the opposite of what we usually think. Generations of allergists knew that dogs and cats in the house were bad because they increased the risk of you becoming allergic to them. New researches suggest that children whom grow up in home with cats and/or dogs are much less likely to develop allergies.
But the study, released in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association -- which tracked a group of 474 babies from birth to about age 7 -- found differently. Researchers found that the 184 children in the group exposed to two or more dogs or cats in infancy were half as likely to develop common allergies than the 220 children who had no pets in the home.
So what is it about cats and dogs? They're thought to force the body's immune system into developing a response pattern that's less likely to lead to allergic reactions.
The results of this study can be found in the 'Journal of the American Medical Association'