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Handling Cats Safely and Lovingly

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There is nothing quite as calming as cuddling your kitty, but handling cats needs to be done carefully or you may injure them – or yourself.

Often your cat will enjoy being patted, but cats also live life on their own terms and there are times when your cat will not be interested in affection.

As a cat owner, it is important to learn to distinguish when they are in the mood for snuggles and when they are not.

Tips for Handling Cats

There are several tips that a caring owner should know about handling cats:

  • First, consider your cat’s body language – do they appear relaxed?
  • Earn the cat’s confidence by patting it or talking to it so you have its attention.
  • Once the cat appears comfortable with you, you can pick it up.
  • It is best to scoop the cat up by placing one hand on their chest under their front legs and use your other hand to cradle their hind legs.
  • Then bring the cat in close to your body so it feels secure.
  • It is best not to move around very much when handling cats  to avoid frightening it.

Tips on Kids Handling Cats

Many children adore animals and are very eager to try handling cats; here are a few tips to help keep the children and the cat safe:

  • Children should be supervised when handling cats at all times.
  •  They should sit down with the cat to pet them as there is a risk they may drop it, or the child may also get scratched or bitten if they frighten the animal.
  • Demonstrate how to carefully pet the cat and ensure they understand they need to be gentle.

Don’ts for Handling Cats

There are a couple of things that you should definitely not do when you are handling cats:

  • Although you may see mother cats do it, you should never pick a cat up by the scruff of its neck – it may become injured.
  • Cradling a cat like a baby is also unwise as it may feel vulnerable and you stand a good chance of being bitten or scratched.

Tips on Handling Cats with Affection

Cats love to have their ears gently scratched or massaged and they also enjoy a tickle under the chin.

They will often enjoy being stroked along the length of their back and having a scratch on their back at the base of their tail.

Cats do not generally enjoy having their fur brushed backwards, having their whiskers or paws played with.

When handling cats the key is to watch your kitty’s body language and be sensitive to any signs they are not enjoying your attention or affection.

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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Therapy Cat Ginger Kitten

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.