Especially if you work their name into the song, you can then use the song when taking them to the vet or other stressful activities to help them relax.
Shit up. I am so allergic. I take 4 scripts for allergies. I had shots 2x a week for 3 yrs. I had a stray move in and I ignored him, he won't leave me alone. I wake up w both of them on my face, where my dog, (who I'm not allergic to bc she has hair) is perfectly on Her side
Took in two cats last year in August and hit a few bumps along the way, one cat actually got into a daily thing where i would pick her up and when i put her down she would get brushed. This worked until the start of this year when she decided to just avoid human contact. Her sister decided to find a hole in the ceiling of our basement and lived there for 7 months until this past weekend when we developed an idea to trap her from where she went, now she is living in a small cage but is so happy w/ the attention she gets.
I speak out loud to my cats with everything I do. And I know they understand a few words and the tones I use with them. Kitty Chow means dinner time. I sing that. When I call them I call them like you would your child to come in. Kitten kisses means treats. If I say that I do not even have to rattle the container. They have their own communication with me too. A paw scrape in front of me on a flat surface means they do not want whatever I am offering them. If they do it in the bathroom while I am in it, they want me to check their litter boxes. When I give them treats they will all point with their nose to where they want me to put it and if they meow, they want to eat it out of my hand. I have a special song with a different tune that I sing to each of them and they know the sound and seem to know what it means. They can tell when I am sad and I can tell when they are sad or disappointed. My Calico is a female and I am her everything. Had her since she was a kitten. She gets VERY jealous of other females and even my youngest, my male Persian. She even gets jealous of women that come in. No matter who they are. She will follow me and sit by me and stare them down. It's so adorable and I love that she is so protective of me. My male will sit by open doors, and windows in a room that I am in and do rounds around the house to make sure we are all safe too. So many different behaviors. We all do the slow blink to each other to tell each other we are comfortable and love each other. I love seeing them so it to one another as none of them are litter mates. We all also do the neck baring thing with the slow blink. I know I am missing a few but this is a wall-o-text as it is.
I read T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats to my kitty when she was only a few weeks old, but I was trying to match my voice with the poetry so it wasn't very soothing but more on the perky side, lol, and she was just whatever about it. I'll have to try again in a soothing voice :). I talk to her a lot and she recognizes her name and will often vocalize an answer that goes up a note at the end, like the human equivalent of answering "Yes?"
At 7:24 in the vid, there is a purple & silver apparatus on the table . If that is an oil diffuser, it is slowly killing that cat. This is seriously dangerous. Look it up.
@@jon2849no it's not crazy. Essential oils can be deadly for your cats, but even worse are the chemical "air fresheners"and "room perfumes" that very really and slowly poison and kill them
as someone who is autistic i always felt that looking peaople into eyes is "fighting words", i wonder if autism is apartialy some the anchient traits of humans reactivated?
Hi, to the narrator:Maybe you can help me. I adopted a feral cat 7 months ago when she was 9 months old. ( i have another cat here, around 7 years old, been here 6 years). New cat Lola hated me for 3 months. Would literally walk out of a room if i entered. Would not eat if i walked into the kitchen. Spent her first 3 months mostly in a closet. Gradually she fell in love with the other cat, and remained in a room i was in. Eats if i walk into the kitchen. And i am getting slow blinks now, all day long! Lola will eat a treat from my hands now too, and often lays next to me when i am in bed. But i have never touched her. Not once. She will withdraw if i try. I let her watch me pet and brush the other cat every day. The other cat loves it. Is there any hope Lola will ever let me touch her?
Of course, just give her all the time she needs, and if it nevers happens, it should also be fine. They don't owe us anything, ever, so as long as the cat is healthy and happy...
@@thematriarchy2075 last night i learned something from you and i hope you see this. You said they owe us nothing. I never thought of that, really. Just because i rescued this cat from living outside ( and because she was outside, she had a litter at 6 months old), Lola owes me nothing. Because i did what i did of my own free will, because i wanted to. And she doesn’t even have to be grateful. Someone in my area posted about this cat that i have. She told the story i just told you. at least Lola got medical care and had her litter in the home of the woman who took her in. And then she got spayed. All the babies got adopted but not the mom and i was crying here in my apartment and called up to say i will take the mom. So that’s how i got her. And i will give her the best possible life. And still she owes me nothing, you are right. But i hold out hope that one day i can pet her. Thank you for this lesson.
people really spend a lot of time on this stuff. just feed your cat, give it water, let it out the house once a day. animals are worried about food and shelter. that's trust to them. the cat is not your child.
Spoken like an arrogant human. Outside is full of dangers for a cat. In the town/city, traffic, dogs. In the country other predator animals and snakes. Never get a cat. For starters, you do not deserve one. Even I would not want to meet you IRL.
Wondering why my earlier comment, calling out this person, who clearly does not understand cat needs nor safety, was removed. Orangewarm does not deserve to have a cat in their life.
No, you don’t let a cat outdoors unless you want to shorten your cat’s life? And a cat that lives with their person for decades (one of mine lived to 21!), they easily feel like your family, your “child.” Apparently you’ve never had the good fortune to experience this kind of mutual relationship.