Required reading for cat owners!

I ordered the book, due to the recently published press reports, and it is still much better than described here. It begins after the introduction of a long treatise on the history of the small cats or wild cats. Since you think in the beginning nor "does it matter?" and noted but fast, yes, to understand the very end, as the cat was to what it is today, you should really start at the very beginning. The author creates an entertaining way the development of the wildcat on the rat and mouse catcher for today's house cat to describe.

It describes the importance of the influences for the development of the individual cat through contact with other cats to people when growing from kitten to adult cat. Between the chapters are info boxes in which important issues are treated well summarized "As a cat purrs" - "What are signs that cats do not get along with each other in the home" - or even the theme "wool eat at Oriental cats". Accompanied the whole with loving drawings in which the artist appears as though to have his problems with the anatomy of people ...:)

The author refers to many behavioral research rows, it is clear that the behavior of cats is not as good as that of dogs. He looks at the biological conditions - how does a cat like smell and hear them, as is their memory skills. You can see why there's no scolding a cat for something that is longer than one second ago.

Exciting is the treatise on clicker training for cats - everyone knows the example of the zoo-docu-soaps on television, hardly anyone gets the idea that to try at his cat. It works beautifully (my two cats and I have therefore just started and all have a lot of fun;) Why, for example, force the cat with violence in the transport box for the vet visit, if you can train in peace, since voluntarily go in?

When reading you learn to understand how our cats see what they expect from us, how they communicate with us (wild cats meow barely - the cats living in human hands have to do it, because we humans are like that inattentive !! ) The author gives many tips on how we can make it, that cats themselves are comfortable and happy with us.

He gives much attention to the theme "Cats as a threat to nature", eg for songbirds and their eggs. He wondered how the future of the cats may look. Amazingly, this is not so sure, because in spite of their popularity the gene pool for future generations is smaller because almost every owner can spay or neuter their cats.

He devotes an information box a subject which in Europe is fortunately not an issue here, because it is forbidden - the so-called "declawing" of cats. In the US and Asia, it is allowed and widely used, so to speak, to amputate the cat "fingertips" velvet claws. The author does not believe not only because a claw-amputee cat knows how to fight back then just different, for example by biting.

So far, the book is only available in English (March 2014), and you should already somewhat advanced level of English have to read it. I highly recommend it. Actually, it should read each having cats or intends to to acquire some.