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The previous blogs discussed how hunting is a learned skill that kittens acquire from their mother and how play and hunting are such fundamental components of a healthy feline environment. And now to recap and present additional interesting tidbits on feline hunting, I give you our list of Top Ten Truths.
If you never realized how hard outdoor cats have to work to survive, you should now! Here’s an interesting fact for you….Did you know that one mouse equals approximately 10 pieces of dry cat food? Even eating an extra 10 pieces per day can result in a 10% weight gain over the course of a year. Considering that indoor cats receive food with minimal effort AND tend to overeat, it’s no wonder that more than half of indoor cats in the United States are overweight or obese!
Normal cat behaviors include play, investigation, observation, hunting, feeding, drinking, grooming, scratching, traveling, scent marking, eliminating, resting, and sleeping. Although this list sounds very basic take a moment to think about it. Are there any behaviors which your cat does not have the opportunity to experience? Let me guess…..did you answer hunting?
Marking, ugh. So frustrating! The burning question that everyone who has endured this unpleasant behavior in their home wants to know is “Why is this happening?
Feeding the multicat household is difficult. Cats in the same house may be eating different diets, eat at different rate, and get into fights around the feeding station. What is a concerned cat parent to do?
To best understand this complex problem, we look to the natural feeding behavior for cats and how that works in a group situation for our answer. Lucky for us, there is good scientific understanding about how cats act naturally.