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I do have 2 cats myself so I don’t want them to run away. Before i made my garden my cats use to pooh in the lawn like dogs so I am not sure if its my cats or neighboring cats.

sprinkle cayenne pepper on the area and the cats will avoid it altogether. It won’t hurt your plants.

I know you can tell a lot about a cat’s mood just by their tail and body language, but I’ve always wondered if it’s reciprocated in the same fashion.

Do cats understand or know how to interpret our body language? Besides reaching out to pet them, or playing/throwing a toy for attention. I dance around the house all the time and my cats always seem to get hyper and excited.

not human body language per se, but they are definitely reading and interpreting our movements.

like prolonged staring at a cat is aggressive, towering over them is like dominance

I know what you mean though with regards to cats getting hyper. Sometimes I practice my kickboxing at home, and it tends to make them playful

Someone in my family bought an all natural liquid made to calm a cat’s nervous system when they travel. I just looked at the ingreditnts and it has 13% Alcohol! I just felt sick about it! I want to burn the darned liquid!!! The person who bought it says it won’t hurt them and would be better for them when they are traveling. I don’t think its safe!

Does anyone have any facts or articles about the effects of Alcohol on cats? Thank you.

Hi Clarice…13% seems a bit high and I would also be suspect as well.

Alcohol is known to cause coma or death in cats. Here’s the link about other food ingredients that are considered toxic to cats: http://www.peteducation.com:80/article.cfm?cls=0&cat=1276&articleid=1029

does it come from the common stereotype of cats being a witch’s pet, riding along on her broom…

or did that stereotype originate from the cat burning incidences of the middle ages?

Because cats had long had a bad rap from superstition, just like snakes, most likely because Pagan cultures like the Egyptians revered them.

Rumors grew with the hysteria.

The cats want to use the kids’ box garden for a litter box. Is there a way to keep the cats out besides putting sticks in the soil? We don’t have a place to put the box where the cats can’t get to it.

Not just any pepper-use cayenne pepper. They will only do it once in the garden, then they always clean their selves after wards and won’t do it again. You’ll have to repeat after it rains.
I also heard that cats don’t like the smell of orange so you could spray orange clean on furniture to prevent sharpening claws. I don’t know if it would work in gardens.

My cats like to use my indoor plants as a litter box. They have an easy accessible, clean litter box, but they just want to keep using the plants.

My friend suggested using moth balls, but it doesn’t do anything; they play the moth balls as if they were little cat toys. Another friend suggested putting rocks on the soil, but the cats still urinate in them.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

NEVER use MOTH BALLS around cats. They can KILL the cats, if they eat any, or get that stuff on their paws and lick it off. GET RID of the MOTH BALLS ASAP…….

You can put some orange, lemon, or other citrus rinds in your pots, and the cats should leave them alone. The rind won’t hurt the cat, but most cats don’t like the smell of them.

My cats don’t like the smell of Mentholatum, so if I have a place that I don’t want them to mess with, I open a jar and set it at that place. One whiff, and they’re G O N E………They don’t even stay long enough to taste !!! The smell alone is enough to SHOO them away.

Hope you figure out something to save your plants. I got rid of all of my inside plants, just so I wouldn’t have to worry about them anymore. All of my plants are living outside, now….The cats have the inside………….

Good luck ………

I have a 9 week old puppy. And he wants to get along with the cats, and i don’t want to ruin that. She plays too rough which is no fair to the cats, she bites them and runs around them in circles barking. But she bends down in the play position and is wagging her tail. The cats aren’t super fond of this so they bat at her and hiss. When the cats get up to run away she chases them. I know she just wants to play but i have to yell at her in fairness to the cats. Any tips on how to make this better?

there is no way you can have them be friends. for your cats making areas where they are safe from the dogs (like kitty condo’s) will help maximize these issues. yelling won’t help because the dog doesn’t understand what he is doing wrong. Also provide your puppy with other distractions, like playing with you or toys should help. What might help is a spray bottle with water. If your dog doesn’t like the spraying he should soon stop bothering the cats.

My cat was an outside cat! We had him for about 7 months! He is freindly with humans and loves to be petted/rubbed! However, he see my other cats and want to jump on them and bite! Then when we pick him up and take him to a seperate room he bites out hands! I am not sure if this aggressive behavior will change or if my cat will get along with my other cats!

Has he been neutered? That might fix the behavior problems you’re seeing, and he is old enough.

Good luck!

The neighborhood that i live in has several ferrel cats and a few outside cats that are pets. I don’t want to harm the animals i just don’t want to find cat fecies in my flowerbeds or walk into my back yard and smell cat urine. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

If you want to spend little to no money you can put mothballs or cayenne pepper in the area. It irritates the pads of their feet. Or you can go to your local pet store where they sell a spray or powder like substance you sprinkle around the area to keep them away. IF you purchase the spray it only lasts 24 hours so it would be something you would have to do daily. And lastly, there are also plants that are sold that you can plant in your flowerbed to keep them away. Best of luck to you….I had the same problem recently. We purchased some stuff called Critter Ridder by Havahart that lasts thirty days and you just sprinkle it out of the top of the container.

Of all the cats I can remember having none of them ended up needing vet care. They grew up, got old, then one day got sick and was put to sleep, or they just die. Am I right in thinking this?

No, you are not right. You were a kid and kids see things through rose colored glasses, or they are almost completely unaware of what is going on in the house. As a kid, I remember the cats having kittens and the kittens dying or getting stuck somewhere (like in the wall). Toms were spraying their nasty urine everywhere, and fighting in the alleys at night. Cats were always eating some kind of poison and dying in your backyard.

Now, I’m from Philadelphia, so these experiences may just be with city cats. No one really owned the cats, nor were they pets, they just hung around. Maybe they’d live a year or two, that’s it. It was horrible.

Cats and dogs are now treated as part of the family. As their guardian, it is your responsibility to care for them and keep them as healthy as possible. They live longer now (especially indoor cats), so they develop problems. It it up to you and your vet to decide how to treat those problems.

I have a 16 year old cat, and he visits the vet every 6 months. He’s on a special diet, and he was a diabetic, now in remission. Expensive? You bet. But I owe it to him-he’s gotten me through some bad times, and as long as he is comfortable and not in pain, I will do what I can for him.

Don’t forget to spay and neuter any pets you get!!! Millions of animals are euthanized needlessly every year-don’t contribute to the problem!