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Cats do not care for changes in their territory, so by leaving the cat in its current territory, you will save a great deal of stress on it. … As you have minimal experience with cats, I would also suggest having your friend walk you through everything so you are more familiar with all the steps before having the cat's care turned over to you …

First, get a kitten-sized litterbox or one meant for senior cats. This is an uncovered box, with a lower entry to make it easier for very small cats and cats with joint issues to enter and use it. …

Male cats, cats in more rural areas, and intact cats tended to roam even farther, with some roaming up to 3 km (nearly 2 miles) from their homes. … cats finishing the ten day study). …

Cats generally love to pounce and attack things moving around under a blanket; it's oddly particularly appealing, and nearly universally so, especially with younger cats with a lot of energy like yours … Cats are smarter than a lot of people give them credit for, and are definitely capable of learning. …

Cats set their territory, stay in it, and don't like invaders in it. … cats may be of help, but you first need to stop thinking of them as dogs. …

Most cats don't care for carriers, but consider that one brief period of discomfort is better than loss, injury or death. … Source: I have moved with my own cats several times, they're always fine after a day or two of settling in, even when being left in "scary" (to them) rooms during the move. …

My cats know they will not get their morning food until I've gotten up, used the bathroom, and cleaned their litter box, so they don't start bothering me for food until I'm out of the bathroom. … These are cats fed only on wet, who never have kibble available, and yet they have learned when to expect food and only meow when I'm actually preparing it. …

House cats live longer, healthier lives, and are perfectly happy living safely in their homes as long as they have sufficient stimulation. … Cats are naturally going to get into tight areas, and a tag hanging from a non-breakaway collar will result in a trapped, and possibly dead, cat. …

The nice thing about cats is that it's generally unnecessary to bathe them at all. … Instead of thinking about how to change something that's fundamentally part of how cats think, ask yourself why you're bathing your cat so often. …

While I haven't handled a cat with a diabetes diagnosis, I've handled routine changes many times with multiple cats (including sleeping schedule changes and switches from free-feeding to scheduled feedings … I've had solid, repeat successes in fairly short periods of time getting cats to stop waking me up for food using this technique. …

My cats have a selection of hard, plush, crinkle, jingle, "lumpy" (with an unpredictable movement pattern), and pompon balls to play with. … You can also get track-bound balls, which are balls locked into a larger piece, and which cats enjoy batting around as they try to knock it loose. Offer different sizes of "prey" toys. …

Most doses are going to be far too large for fur to be an effective dosage vector, so unfortunately, no, adding the medicine to the fur around the mouth (or any other area of the cat's body) is not a …

You're unlikely to be able to make the sofa inhospitable to the cats without also making it inhospitable to yourself, but there's steps you can take to minimize the damage they'll do. … Depending on how clever your cats are, the clear materials are better, because they won't be able to easily see if and when they're removed. …

Most cats require little to no litter training, as litter boxes are designed to appeal to their instinctive need to bury their waste. … As long as the box is of a sufficient size (larger is better than smaller) and the litter selected doesn't bother them (declawed cats or cats with sensitivities may not like many types of litter), then …

Cats are capable of going up and down ladders and can use it to return to the ground if they truly are having trouble, and it will give you some peace of mind as well. … It's largely easier for cats to go up than down, and sometimes they can get "stuck," but generally they will find their way down after a while. …