Practical feline behaviour understanding cat behaviour and improving welfare

62 Chapter 5 Mating A female that is ready to mate will adopt a position known as lordosis whereby she lowers her front end, rai ...

Kitten to Cat 63 ● Increased self-grooming, especially the anogenital area and around the nipples. Newborn kittens use olfactory ...

64 Chapter 5 Pre-weaning period Immediately after the kittens are born the mother will usually lie on her side, encir- cling the ...

Kitten to Cat 65 Feldman (1993) found very little evidence to support this. Other reasons that have been postulated are disturba ...

66 Chapter 5 With pet cats this process is often disrupted by human owners and cannot occur at all if the mother is confined ind ...

Kitten to Cat 67 were far quicker to approach, investigate and interact with novel objects and unfamiliar people than those fath ...

68 Chapter 5 dominate its sensory world for the first 2 weeks of life. Newborn kittens have full pain perception and can sense t ...

Kitten to Cat 69 Olmstead, 1979, cited in Martin and Bateson, 1988). The variation in eye-opening age seems to be due to several ...

70 Chapter 5 The sensitive period This is a time in an animal’s life when external experience can have the greatest influ- ence ...

Kitten to Cat 71 Karsh and Turner (1988) found that if a kitten has no, or very little, handling prior to 7 weeks of age it is f ...

72 Chapter 5 sensitized to it. This is because a cat’s initial experience of the noise of the vacuum cleaner is something that i ...

Kitten to Cat 73 Guyot et al. 1980 found that kittens raised without littermates may be more aggressive and be slower to learn s ...

74 Chapter 5 Object play Play with small inanimate objects, known as ‘object play’, starts later than social play as kittens dev ...

Kitten to Cat 75 Social play also often continues into adulthood and is a normal behaviour between cats of the same social group ...

76 Chapter 5 Dards, J.L. (1983) The behaviour of dockyard cats: interactions of adult males. Applied Animal Ethology 10, 133–153 ...

Kitten to Cat 77 Martin, P. and Bateson, P. (1988) Behavioural development in the cat. In: Turner, D.C. and Bateson, P. (eds) Th ...

78 Chapter 5 Turner, D.C. (1995) The human–cat relationship. In: Robinson, I. (ed.) The Waltham Book of Human-Animal Interaction ...

© T. Atkinson, 2018. Practical Feline Behaviour (T. Atkinson) 79 6. Health and Behaviour There is a very close link between phys ...

80 Chapter 6 Reduced activity Cats in pain may spend more time sleeping and less time exploring, hunting or play- ing. If they h ...

Health and Behaviour 81 Disease A disease is any disorder or abnormal condition of a body part, organ or system. Diseases can ha ...