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A behavioral guide for feline aficionados offers insight into cat psychology, counseling owners on how to address such challenges as aggressive behavior, over-grooming, and destructiveness.
Choosing the right kitten -- Kitten litter training -- Introducing a new kitten to the household -- Holidays and catteries -- Personality development -- Nervous and timid cats -- Physical effects of anxiety -- Sudden-onset fear -- The aggressive cat: Play aggression -- Territorial aggression -- Assertive aggression -- The indoor cat: The "stir crazy" phenomenon -- Stimulating the indoor cat -- The destructive results of idle paws -- The multi-cat household: pitfalls -- Indoor soiling -- Urine spraying indoors -- Cat flaps -- Interpreting feline social behavior -- The weird cat: Bizarre and unusual behavior -- Shoe eating cats and other stories -- Self-mutilation and overgrooming -- "Kitty prozac" -- The human/cat bond: Over-attachment -- Unsociable cats -- Munchausen syndrome by proxy -- The elderly and disabled cat: Special needs -- Night-calling senility -- Coping with bereavement: identifying pain and suffering -- How pain can affect behavior -- Getting the timing right for euthanasia.
Originally published: London : Bantam Press, 2004.