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Yep, this is it. Can't just trust it without a trustable source. The second and the third one are obviously incorrect but not sure whether the first one is correct or whether a perpendicular cut is incorrect. Like so:

Hi everyone, I have seen an infographic (source was unknown) that says the line numbered one is the correct angle to trim a cat's nail. Do you have any vet.-level information on this matter?

Just a little correction... This is positive punishment. Negative reinforcement (a.k.a. escape) occurs when a behavior (response) is followed by the removal of an aversive stimulus, thereby increasing the original behavior's frequency. In the Skinner Box experiment, the aversive stimulus...

Hi, Basically, your children are small and have moving parts :) That makes them hunting/play partners/"prey" for a solitary hunter's juvenile version. You might want to read the whole document but especially "Pillar 3" is a must for your situation IMO...

German, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish versions (pdf): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10.1177/1098612X13477537

AAFP and ISFM Feline Environmental Needs Guidelines PDF: SAGE Journals: Your gateway to world-class research journals HTML: SAGE Journals: Your gateway to world-class research journals

For interested members: "The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness" (pdf) "We declare the following: “The absence of a neocortex does not appear to preclude an organism from experiencing affective states. Convergent evidence indicates that non-human animals have the neuroanatomical...

@Dacatchair Very impressive stories and experiences... Goosebumps... To read stories like yours was exactly the reason why I started this thread, thanks...

A quote from de Waal's The Age of Empathy: "We start out postulating sharp boundaries, such as between humans and apes, or between apes and monkeys, but are in fact dealing with sand castles that lose much of their structure when the sea of knowledge washes over them. They turn into hills...

And that expectation is created by the very sense of equality that makes the animal feel frustrated seeing the other one repeatedly getting better food. So I think that it's here obvious that this animal can display behaviour not based on simple stimulus but by a more complex cognitive analysis...

That was an unsubstantiated hypothesis stemming from our engrained anthropocentrism and it's now plain wrong according to many scientific observations. Many behaviours and emotions previously thought to be unique to humans have been observed by many species in one form or another including...

Rarely I ignore my cat's "I'm gonna bite you" warning signs and keep stimulating her to the point where she can't help but bite me (She never really bites actually; her teeth mildly touching my skin would be a better description). Nevertheless, in order to prevent this behaviour from developing...

Fish pole toys are the best toys because it enables a simulation of a real hunt. So your cat's hunting instinct is satisfied along with the required daily physical activity. Hunting-wise, this is as best as it can get indoors really. And also this is the reason why most cats can be lured by a...