Outsmarting Cats: How to Persuade the Felines in Your Life to do What You Want

✍ Scribed by Christensen, Wendy

• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Edition: Second edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Skeptics will claim that it's impossible to train a cat. Happily, Wendy Christensen knows they're wrong. True, cats are intelligent, adaptable, patient, independent, stubborn, observant, and extremely quick learners. But they're also remarkably self-interested and quick to exploit a good deal. Outsmarting Cats enables you to persuade your cat that what you want is also what she wants.;1. Introduction -- 2. People and cats, together -- 3. The physical cat -- 4. The secrets of your cat's mind -- 5. The litter box blues -- 6. Claws and effect -- 7. Fractious felines: fighting, aggression, ambushes and biting -- 8. Food fussies and earlobe chewers -- 9. Psyching out Fluffy: feline emotions and personality quirks -- 10. Cat-versations -- 11. Shedding cat hair, everywhere! -- 12. COOPs (cats out of place) -- 13. OPCs (other people's cats) and NCs (nobody's cats) -- 14. Helping cats in your community and beyond -- 15. Better safe than sorry.

✦ Table of Contents

1. Introduction --
   2. People and cats, together --
   3. The physical cat --
   4. The secrets of your cat's mind --
   5. The litter box blues --
   6. Claws and effect --
   7. Fractious felines: fighting, aggression, ambushes and biting --
   8. Food fussies and earlobe chewers --
   9. Psyching out Fluffy: feline emotions and personality quirks --
   10. Cat-versations --
   11. Shedding cat hair, everywhere! --
   12. COOPs (cats out of place) --
   13. OPCs (other people's cats) and NCs (nobody's cats) --
   14. Helping cats in your community and beyond --
   15. Better safe than sorry.

✦ Subjects

Cats--Behavior;Cats--Training;Human-animal communication;Cats -- Behavior;Cats -- Training