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Tips for Introducing a New Cat into the Home

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Introducing a New Cat into your Home

Introducing a new pet to your home is exciting, but a new cat comes with responsibility too.

A new cat may feel nervous and ill at ease in its new surroundings.

Fortunately, there are many things that you can do in order to make the transition easy on the new cat, you and any other family members or other pets.

By helping a new cat to settle into your home and become accustomed to the sights, smells and people, you will all have an easier time and develop a close bond.

How to Get Your New Cat Settled

  1. Do it one room at a time – set aside a space for the cat with its food, water, toys, litter tray and bed.
  2. Go slowly – let the new cat become accustomed to new rooms and spaces little by little at their own pace.
  3. Keep other pets away from them for the time being.

How to show your New Cat Love and Affection

Start by spending some quality time with them in their space, cuddling and playing with them, which will establish a bond between you.

If you have other animals, you need to also ensure you pay them attention, otherwise feelings of jealousy may cause problems later one.

A new cat requires extra cuddling and attention in order to feel welcomed into the new environment.

Introducing a New Cat to Other Animals

Cat Sitting Front DoorIf you have other pets in the home, then you need to be careful about how you introduce them if you want them to get along.

If you have several other pets, introduce them one at a time.

It is usually best to introduce a new cat to the older animals first, since they tend to be more calm and relaxed.

Sometimes the new cat may not be interested in interacting with other animals.

Don’t try to force the situation, simply accept their reaction and try introducing them again a little later.

Gradual and relaxed introductions will help to ease the transition for both the other animals and the new cat.

Fascinating Feline Facts for Ailurophiles

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Cat Facts for Ailurophiles

Fun Cat Facts for Ailurophiles

All cat lovers know that kitties are fascinating creatures, but here are some feline facts that might surprise even the savviest ailurophile.

Fun Feline Facts

Here are some fun feline facts to expand your general knowledge about your favourite pet:

  • As you may have guessed, a cat lover is known as an ailurophile, which comes from the Greek ailurous.
  • Conversely, if you dislike cats, or you are scared of them, you are an ailurophobe.
  • The collective noun for a group of adult cats is a clowder.
  • The collective noun for a group of kittens is a litter, or a kindle, which comes from Middle English when birthing was known as kindling.

Feline Facts: Agility

It is a well-known fact that felines are fleet-footed, but did you know:

  • They can move at a speedy 45 kilometres per hour.
  • They can spring up to five times their height in one single jump.
  • Cats are excellent fallers; they have a kind of internal gyroscope that helps them to turn themselves the right way up when falling and their legs are designed to distribute impact when they land.

Feline Facts: Senses

Dogs are known for their keen hearing, but cats can pick up sound a full octave higher than dogs.

Although cats are not colour blind, they do not see colour the same way a human does.Fun Cat Facts - Cat Planet

They are good at detecting the colours blue, green and yellow, but have trouble picking up some shades of red.

Freaky Feline Facts

  • Female cats are generally right-pawed, but males generally favour their left paw.
  • In ancient Egypt, when the family cat died, the family would express their grief and mourn them by shaving off their eyebrows.
  • Sir Isaac Newton invented the cat flap after his cat kept interrupting his experiments.

With these feline facts up your sleeve, you will be able to hold your own with the best of the ailurophiles.

Cat lovers Treated to Feline Therapy in Paris

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Cat Therapy

Cat lovers craving a kitty cuddle can now combine their fondness for felines with a croissant and cappuccino.

Purr-therapy for cat lovers

A new café in Paris has launched a novel concept for Parisians who love animals, but are not allowed them, or don’t have space for them, in their cramped apartments.

Le Café des Chats, in the Marais district of Paris offers patrons some purr-therapy by cuddling one of the 12 rescue cats that call the café home.

Djenko is one of the dozen cats that has been adopted from pet rescue centres in the French capital. He is a tabby who has feline dwarfism; this genetic condition causes small paws and a stunted tail.
Djenko, Habby, Oreo and the rest of the kitty crew at the café have been carefully chosen for their social characters.

Cat lovers: health benefits

It is well-known that there are many mental health benefits to owning pets. Some of these include:

  • Reduction in stress levels
  • Lowered blood pressure
  • Easing of chronic pain
  • Reduced risk of heart attack and stroke
  • Lowered cholesterol levels
  • Mood elevation – preventing depression
  • Helps with loneliness.

Patting a tabby as you sip your coffee enjoying the purring ball of fluff on your lap has appealed to young and old alike with visitors spanning all points on the age spectrum.

Cat lovers On opening weekend, the café had queues lining up around the block and more than 300 cat lovers had to be turned away. Bookings are now taken for interested potential visitors.

Cat lovers who visit the café are asked to observe a few rules for the cats’ health and wellbeing: no handling the cats when they are sleeping and no feeding them.

Pet Cat Promoted to Assistant Librarian

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Kuzya, the pet cat at the municipal library of Novorossiysk, Russia, has recently been given the title of assistant librarian.Assistant Librarian

Pet cat Adopted by Local Library

The friendly feline turned up at the library one day, homeless and looking for food. The library staff was quickly charmed by Kuzya, who oozed personality, and he soon became the library’s mascot and pet cat.

Pet cat Overcomes Red Tape

Unfortunately, there is a lot of bureaucracy that needs to be navigated carefully when an animal is to be kept in a public space.

There were various hurdles that had to be overcome before Kuzya could take up a permanent post in the library:

  • A passport was obtained for the pet cat
  • A vet gave him a clean bill of health
  • He was vaccinated against rabies
  • An ID chip was implanted.

Success as Kuzya, the pet cat becomes local celebrity

Pet Cat Assistant Librarian

Following all these steps, the staff members at Novorossiysk library were happy to receive the good news that Kuzya was permitted to stay with them.

Since he has become an official member of the library team, he receives a princely wage of 30 tins of cat food per month, plus snacks and a snazzy bow tie to ensure he looks the part.

Since arriving at the library he has been a huge hit with staff and locals alike.

Many local people come to the library just to visit the library’s pet cat as he roams the shelves or nuzzles in for a cat nap in one of his favourite nooks among the books.