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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, dont stroke it.
Researchers say that the pets become stressed if theyre 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.
-snip-
The research also dispelled the popular belief that cats are solitary creatures who struggle to live happily together in groups.
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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 cant get a grip. My concern is my fence is six feet tall, cant cat jump over seven feet?diamond6 needs info.
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posted on
11/09/2013 12:19:04 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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.
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posted on
11/09/2013 12:32:29 PM PST
by
Perdogg
(Ted Cruz-Rand Paul 2016)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
11/09/2013 12:38:16 PM PST
by
Fred Nerks
(fair dinkum!)
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.
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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.)
To: Cyber Liberty
how big is a cats normal territory? several acres at least
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posted on
11/09/2013 12:49:58 PM PST
by
GeronL
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.
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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.)
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.
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posted on
11/09/2013 12:53:31 PM PST
by
caww
To: Cyber Liberty
Halloween visit, did he get a treat?
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posted on
11/09/2013 12:57:36 PM PST
by
GeronL
To: Boogieman
"Ive notice that cats dont 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 ...
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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])
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!
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posted on
11/09/2013 1:02:44 PM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
( Visit http://icantenroll.com/ In Glitch We Trust....;o})
To: GeronL
Yes, he did get a treat. He and his twin bro got a Foreber Home.
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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.)
To: Cyber Liberty
He’s a tabby, also fixed.
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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)
To: Cyber Liberty
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posted on
11/09/2013 1:07:19 PM PST
by
GeronL
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.
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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.)
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.
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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.)
To: diamond6
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posted on
11/09/2013 1:16:33 PM PST
by
Fred Nerks
(fair dinkum!)
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.)
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posted on
11/09/2013 1:17:47 PM PST
by
Safetgiver
( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
To: Perdogg
They are wonderful cats. I can’t wait to see pics!
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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.))
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!!
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posted on
11/09/2013 6:33:34 PM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
( Visit http://icantenroll.com/ In Glitch We Trust....;o})
To: Slings and Arrows
I don't know if they an jump 6 feet, but he may try and climb it lol like Spiderman.
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posted on
11/10/2013 4:47:11 AM PST
by
angcat
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