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Want to show your cat affection? Think twice before stroking it [truncated]
Daily Mail [UK] ^ | 7 October 2013 | Victoria Woollaston

Posted on 10/08/2013 10:23:25 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows

If you really love your cat, don’t stroke it.

Researchers say that the pets become stressed if they’re constantly petted.

Animal behaviour experts discovered that cats released hormones linked to anxiety when they were handled by humans.

In fact, the tests appeared to show that no cats enjoyed being stroked.

Some were prepared to tolerate it – but they were the individuals that showed the highest levels of distress.

The researchers concluded that genuine cat lovers should avoid constantly petting their feline friends to spare their feelings.

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The research also dispelled the popular belief that cats are solitary creatures who struggle to live happily together in groups.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: animalrights; animalrightsagenda; bs; kittyping; peta
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To: diamond6; Slings and Arrows; Glenn; republicangel; Beaker; BADROTOFINGER; etabeta; asgardshill; ...
I need help from all the cat people on this site.....I was told that to contain my cat in my backyard, I would have to install metal flashing in the top of my fence, that way the cat can’t get a grip. My concern is my fence is six feet tall, can’t cat jump over seven feet?

diamond6 needs info.


161 posted on 11/09/2013 12:19:04 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows; Nepeta; diamond6; Fawn; CatherineofAragon

I have done my research and the cat I am going to get once I get my place, maybe two, is the Maine Coon.


162 posted on 11/09/2013 12:32:29 PM PST by Perdogg (Ted Cruz-Rand Paul 2016)
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To: Slings and Arrows
GOOGLE IMAGES - CAT ENCLOSURES

GOOGLE IMAGES - CATIOS

163 posted on 11/09/2013 12:38:16 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: diamond6

Some kittehs are bred to jump. If you have a Manx, for example, the yard will never contain him no matter what you do.


164 posted on 11/09/2013 12:48:59 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (We're At That Awkward Stage: It's too late to vote them out, too early to shoot the bastards.)
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To: Cyber Liberty

how big is a cats normal territory? several acres at least


165 posted on 11/09/2013 12:49:58 PM PST by GeronL
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To: GeronL

I haven’t a clue about country catz. I live in the city, and my kittehs stay in the house, so technically their territory is about 1550 square feet. Too many sickos out there, and one of my catz is pure basement cat. He came to us one Halloween.


166 posted on 11/09/2013 12:52:24 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (We're At That Awkward Stage: It's too late to vote them out, too early to shoot the bastards.)
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To: RoosterRedux

I have a cat that does that too...he gets on back of the couch and pushes my elbow, and if I don’t pay attentio....he will gum my arm! (He has no teeth) Trust me that’s most uncomfortable! You’d be amazed at the power behind those jawbones!...All so he can flop in my lap for a petting.


167 posted on 11/09/2013 12:53:31 PM PST by caww
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To: Cyber Liberty

Halloween visit, did he get a treat?


168 posted on 11/09/2013 12:57:36 PM PST by GeronL
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To: Boogieman
"I’ve notice that cats don’t really like to be just “stroked”, per se..."

To some extent, I would say that you're right about this, but I put it down to the fact that the cat knows that, once you get started stroking it, it can move to wherever it wants and manuver you into giving it a stroke or scratch in just the right place.

My Gracie loves to be stroked and then scratched behind the ears. Her reaction to being stroked from behind the ears to the base of her tail gave rise to her nickname ...

Elevator Butt ...

169 posted on 11/09/2013 12:59:26 PM PST by BlueLancer ("Oh, man, that's a lot of Indians!" [LTC George A. Custer, 1876, near the Little Bighorn Valley])
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To: Slings and Arrows
What type fence is it? as far as jumping over the fence,,,if there is anything close enough to the fence that the cat could climb...to allow it to get to a hight to jump over the fence ..i will.

the flashing will make certain that if said cat has to climb over the fence it cant.

as far as jumping up and over a 7 foot fence...I doubt any cat could manage that feat!
170 posted on 11/09/2013 1:02:44 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ( Visit http://icantenroll.com/ In Glitch We Trust....;o})
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To: GeronL
Yes, he did get a treat. He and his twin bro got a Foreber Home.


171 posted on 11/09/2013 1:03:20 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (We're At That Awkward Stage: It's too late to vote them out, too early to shoot the bastards.)
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To: Cyber Liberty

He’s a tabby, also fixed.


172 posted on 11/09/2013 1:07:18 PM PST by diamond6 (Behold this Heart which has so loved men!" Jesus to St. Margaret Mary)
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To: Cyber Liberty

aawwww


173 posted on 11/09/2013 1:07:19 PM PST by GeronL
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To: MeshugeMikey

I’ve seen a Manx jump from a floor to a curtain valence eight feet high. But they’re made for jumping, very unusual. No tail, either.


174 posted on 11/09/2013 1:08:01 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (We're At That Awkward Stage: It's too late to vote them out, too early to shoot the bastards.)
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To: diamond6

The flashing to bring the fence up to 7 feet *should* work. Tabbies can be pretty robust in the jumping department....And clever. If there’s a tree within 6 feet, your work will be for naught.


175 posted on 11/09/2013 1:10:13 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (We're At That Awkward Stage: It's too late to vote them out, too early to shoot the bastards.)
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To: diamond6

forgot to ping you

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3076327/posts?page=163#163

lots of ideas for fences and enclosures illustrated, but safer and cheaper to keep kitty inside imo.


176 posted on 11/09/2013 1:16:33 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: KarlInOhio

I can just imagine a couple of guys in lab coats chasing a cat around the lab to see whether it is stressed when stroked. ....Exactly. A bunch of a—holes who never the saw the puddy before and brought them out to stick the little twerps with needles and started petting them. Figured if they let off gasses that showed they hated the petting it was proof. My big 25 lb. lets off gas, too when I pet him because it’s heaven on Earth to him and he won’t quit letting me pet him. (Until he farts off a pound or so.)


177 posted on 11/09/2013 1:17:47 PM PST by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Perdogg

They are wonderful cats. I can’t wait to see pics!


178 posted on 11/09/2013 5:54:35 PM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: Cyber Liberty

ahahaI used to have a manx that I named Rabbit Azz!!

this after seeing it hopping along at night..kist like a jack rabbit

My wife didnt like having to call it by name so much..... but we made do!!


179 posted on 11/09/2013 6:33:34 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ( Visit http://icantenroll.com/ In Glitch We Trust....;o})
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To: Slings and Arrows
I don't know if they an jump 6 feet, but he may try and climb it lol like Spiderman.
180 posted on 11/10/2013 4:47:11 AM PST by angcat
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