This is not to say that all kittens develop along the same path, in the same way, at the same rate. From the earliest displays of personality, every litter of kittens demonstrates the individuality of its members. Continue Reading
Individual Personalities
09 Dec
Becoming a Cat
09 Dec
Whilst the kitten is develop
ing its repertoire of activities, its body is developing the tools it will need as an adult cat. For example, kittens first teeth appear around the time their eyes open, and they generally have their full set of mill teeth by the age of eight weeks, which explain why this is usually the point at which their mothers have fully weaned them. A cat’s permanent teeth appear between the ages of twelve and eighteen weeks and despite the claims of some proponents of vegetarisnism , these are teeth of a carnivore. Continue Reading
Mother as Teacher
09 Dec
Learning begins very early in a kittens’s life. In addition to such basics as here food comes from and how to control all four of its legs at the same time, within just a few weeks the young cat is already adding to its knowledge about things like litter-box use.
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The Ability to Learn of Cats
03 Dec
Cats most definitely do have the ability to learn. Using the litter pan, for example, is certainly a learnt behaviour, albeit one that coincides with a goal of the cat. There are those humans that are able to teach their feline charges tricks similar to those taught to dogs. It is important to keep is mind whilst teaching cats that they don’t respond to punishment.
The Measure of Intelligence of Cats
03 Dec
One measure commonly applied to animal intelligence is the weight of the brain in relation to the length of the spinal cord. In other words, the comparison of brain size to body size. In this measure, cats rate a 4 to 1 ratio, whilst humans rate around 50 to 1. Continue Reading