Discover How To Care For Your Cat, So
They Are Happy
by Jimmy Cox
All
in all, it is an odd relationship that man has
established with cat. Toward no other domestic
animal does he show such split feelings of
admiration and resentment, which is some kind of a
comment on man, for the cat, is constant. She has
always been cat.
The
cat is different from the dog. She serves no one,
knowingly or willingly. Her one accomplishment the
hunting of mice, rats and other rodents is self
taught. The man does not live who can claim to have
trained a cat to perform a task for human benefit.
For their own convenience, cats have learned various
small maneuvers, like opening doors, but they do not
and will not herd sheep, carry messages or run back
to the ranch seeking help for jammed up cowboys.
There are no police cats, no watch cats, and no sled
cats.
The
cat does not even come when she is called, unless it
suits her.
In
1953 the American Can Company, which produces
containers for commercial pet foods and was
therefore interested, discovered in a survey that
there were 26,700,000 domestic cats in the United
States.
By
domestic cats is meant cats who, however casual
their membership, belong to human families. Most of
them 13.2 million were found to be farm cats. Seven
million were city cats, and 6.5 million lived
somewhere in between.
The
South had the most cats, 9.7 million, the Far West
the fewest, 3.2 million. The East had the most urban
cats, 2.4 million, the Midwest the most farm cats,
5.8 million; no surprises there.
Overall, 29 per cent of the nations families had one
or more cats. Farm families had the most cats;
nearly half of them owned three or more. The
nationwide average was 2.21 cats per cat owning
family. Low income families were found to be far
more likely to have cats than were the high income
families.
Cats are not the least bit uncertain about their
ability to take care of themselves. This, however,
does not discourage the people with whom they live.
By close observation of cats habits and preferences,
they learn to do for cat many of the things cat
ordinarily would do for herself. This is known as
cat care.
Your first duty is to provide your cat with a bed.
Her preferences are in accord with universal
standards. It should be warm and dry, of comfortable
size, bug free and protected from drafts.
The
only other article of furniture an indoor cat needs
is a pan. There are cats that, by some stroke of
fate, have learned to use the human toilet, but
yours probably is not one of them. Buy a pan.
Enameled metal is best and easiest to keep clean. It
should be large enough for the cat to maneuver in
comfortably, but the sides should be low. It should
be kept in one location, and it may be filled with
sand, shredded newspaper or sawdust.
A
house trained mother cat will teach her kittens to
use the pan, but if you should by chance acquire one
that never got the word, it is easy enough to set
the kitten straight. First, show it the pan. Second,
after each meal traipse the kitten over to the pan
and keep it there without using undue force, of
course until it performs.
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