I had about half a dozen cats in my life and never clipped their claws. Why? They seemed perfectly capable of taking care of their claws themselves. My last was an ex-feral cat and I specifically watched how she handled this issue. She bit off the tips on her hind paws when she groomed (with a...
I had a ex-feral cat that looked almost exactly like in this picture, and she often held her tail stretching backwards, almost touching the back of her head (just an inch or two short of it). I never saw cats do it and it looked doggish to me, and so I often reprimanded her: Nocha, stop acting...
In my experience, you can teach a young cat how to play without hurting you. You gotta show her when it hurts: scream aya! and act a bit exaggerated. In other words, show her that she caused you pain and withdraw. She does not want to hurt you and so pretty quickly she learns to play without...
Hi! I'm new here and signed up, because I have a question. I had a cat, who came to us as a stray, on her last leg of starvation. We live practically in the woods, and I had seen many of her relatives in the previous years living in the wild (all black with green eyes, short paws, smallish)...